James G.D. Douglas  

Jim Douglas is a partner in our Toronto office. Jim is the national leader of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's Securities Litigation Group. His practice focuses on:

• Securities litigation and regulation, including broker liability, proceedings before the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), SRO disciplinary proceedings and charges under the Securities Act.
• Mergers and acquisitions litigation.
• Shareholders' rights litigation, including proxy fights, oppression proceedings, derivative actions and shareholders' class actions.
• Directors' and officers' liability, including shareholders' actions, creditors' actions, and offences under the Securities Act and other regulatory statutes.
• General commercial litigation, including contract disputes, debtor/creditor rights, commercial torts and energy market litigation.

Jim has represented the OSC, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, The Toronto Stock Exchange and other securities regulatory authorities in investigations, prosecutions and disciplinary proceedings. He also represents registrants and public companies and their respective officers, directors and shareholders in civil proceedings and in all manner of proceedings and prosecutions before provincial securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations and the courts.

Jim was Senior Investigation Counsel at the OSC in 1989-90. He was also the Litigation Manager for the Enforcement Branch of the OSC in 1996-97. Both positions were secondments from the Firm.

• YBM Magnex International Inc. et al. – represented one of the respondents in OSC proceeding.
• IAMGold Corporation – represented applicant in oppression claim.
• Helix BioPharma – represented the company in proxy fight.
• Hurst v. PWC – represented defendant in class action.
• Research in Motion – represented senior executive in options back-dating regulatory investigation.
• ABCP – represented securities dealer in regulatory investigation.
• Fischer v. AIC et al. – represented one of the fund companies in market timing class action.
• THESL v. OEB – represented electric utility in jurisdictional dispute with OEB.
• Magna International Inc. v. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board et al. – represented institutional shareholders.
• IIROC v. Northern Securities – represented IIROC in regulatory hearing.

• Author of a number of papers on securities regulation and litigation and regular speaker at continuing education seminars on the same topics.

• Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2013 edition (and since 2006) of The Best Lawyers in Canada® (Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Securities Law).
• Recognized in the 2013 edition of Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (Dispute Resolution: Ontario).
• Recognized in Benchmark Litigation – The Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys (Class Actions, Commercial Litigation, Securities).
• Recognized in the 2013 edition of Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation) and the 2012 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Litigation – Corporate Commercial, Litigation – Directors' and Officers' Liability, Litigation – Securities).
• Martindale-Hubbell® AV® Preeminent™ 5 out of 5 Peer Review Rated.