Markus Kremer

Associé

Toronto
MKremer@blg.com
416.367.6658
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Markus has dedicated his practice to class actions, commercial litigation and public law.

His class actions practice includes defending the country’s largest financial institutions and corporations in actions involving breaches of contract, privacy breaches, regulatory compliance, consumer protection and mass tort issues, arising in the financial services, pension and retail industries.

Markus also practices commercial litigation and public law. He is regularly retained by employers and administrators of single- and multi-employer pension plans with respect to plan administration issues. He has particular expertise with respect to difficult religious rights issues in the education system.

Markus has appeared as counsel before all levels of Court in Ontario, the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench, the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as the Financial Services Tribunal and other administrative tribunals.

Experience

  • Successfully represented Canada’s largest retailer in the Ontario Court of Appeal and below in a proposed international mass tort class action arising out of the 2013 collapse of a building in Bangladesh, obtaining a dismissal of the action at certification.
  • Successfully represented a public hospital in a privacy breach class action, obtaining a dismissal of the action at certification.
  • Successfully represented the defendant in a proposed class action alleging misleading advertising of soft drink products, obtaining a dismissal of the action at certification.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Former Member, Financial Services Tribunal legal advisory committee, 2012-2018
  • Member (pension and benefits section) and former member of the executive, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association, Commercial Litigation Section
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association, Class Actions Section
  • Member, The Advocates’ Society

Awards & Recognition

  • Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2025 (and since 2010) edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada® (Employee Benefits Law), since 2021 (Class Action Litigation) and since 2022 (Corporate and Commercial Litigation).
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2022) of Benchmark Canada - The Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys as a "Litigation Star" (Commercial; Class Action; Public Law) and from 2016 to 2021as a "Future Star: Ontario".
  • Recognized in the 2023 edition (and since 2021) of Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation.
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2022) of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Class Actions).

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 1999
  • LLB, Université York, 1997
  • BA (Hons.), University of Guelph, 1994 (One year at University of Mannheim, Germany)