Cozen O’Connor LLP serves as a one-stop shop for Canadian and American businesses seeking legal assistance on all fronts. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal and a deep bench of experienced lawyers, Cozen O’Connor stands ready to assist with the full array of issues companies doing business in Canada and the United States face in the areas of antitrust & competition; corporate & commercial; capital markets and securities; commercial litigation; intellectual property; labour & employment; bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring; tax; white collar defence & investigations, and subrogation & recovery. We cover a wide range of industries including technology, life sciences, media, telecommunications, entertainment, mining and real estate.
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June 13, 2022
Press Release - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Weisz will play a key role in further expanding Cozen O’Connor’s restructuring and insolvency practice to serve both domestic and international clients with business operations in Canada and the United States.
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June 06, 2022
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Gellis joins the firm as a member and will represent clients facing securities regulatory proceedings, enforcement-related litigation, and investigation matters.
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April 25, 2022
Press Release - Intellectual Property
Engle-Hardy comes to Cozen O’Connor from Smart & Biggar LLP, where she worked in the firm’s trademark, copyright, industrial design, and litigation practice groups.
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March 21, 2022
News - Business, Capital Markets & Securities, Capital Markets & Securities — Canada, Corporate Governance & Securities, International
Elizabeth Holden, Gosia Piasecka, and Nicholas Krishan will reunite with former colleagues Rory Godinho, Kathy Tang, Lucy Schilling, Brian Fast, and Iain Mingo — five corporate attorneys who moved to Cozen O’Connor from the same Canadian firm earlier this month.
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March 07, 2022
Press Release - Business, Capital Markets & Securities, Capital Markets & Securities — Canada, Corporate
Rory Godinho, Kathy Tang, Lucy Schilling, Brian Fast, and Iain Mingo have joined Cozen O’Connor from a major national Canadian law firm.
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August 26, 2021
Press Release - Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement
Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce that Best Lawyers has selected three Cozen O’Connor lawyers for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada.
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June 14, 2021
Press Release - Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, White Collar Defense & Investigations
The new additions will further expand the firm’s North American Intellectual Property, Securities Litigation, White Collar Defense & Investigations, Product Liability, and Commercial Litigation practices.
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February 14, 2018
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor announces Pamela D. Pengelley has been appointed to serve as the Office Managing Partner for the firm’s Toronto office.
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October 01, 2015
News - Subrogation & Recovery
Cozen O’Connor welcomes Michael Bailey as senior counsel to the firm’s Toronto office. Michael brings more than 30 years of litigation experience and will work with the Subrogation & Recovery Department.
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November 25, 2013
News - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its internationally recognized Subrogation & Recovery Department with the recent addition of four attorneys. Lawyers who have joined the firm’s Subrogation & Recovery Department in 2013 include Virginia Markovich, member in the New York office; Philip J. Berens, an associate in Los Angeles; Richard J. Maleski, an associate in the Miami office; and Marie-Pier Nadeau, an associate in the Toronto office.
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October 23, 2008
Press Release - Subrogation & Recovery
Pamela D. Pengelley Earns Pilkington Award From Osgoode Hall
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April 03, 2008
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Reality Cheque: Bank Liability for Fraudulent Bills of Exchange - Canadian Subrogation Alert! - 5 pgs total. In Canada, the liability of banks that act on forged cheques is governed by a mix of the common law and the federal Bills of Exchange Act. This article discusses the legal reasons for placing liability on banks in these cases, and considers some common defences that the subrogation professional may encounter when pursuing this avenue of recovery.
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December 29, 2007
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Foresight in Hindsight: An Insight into Ahmed v. Stefaniu and De-biasing Legal Evaluations of Reasonable Care - Annual Review of Civil Litigation -
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December 01, 2007
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
Confidentiality and Disclosure in Mediation: When the Chicken Won't Talk - The Advocates' Quarterly - 4 pgs. Ontario has been making moves towards mandatory mediation in litigation. While mediations are often considered confidential, no rule explicitly makes it confidential. This means that under some circumstances, this confidentiality can be broken.
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November 15, 2007
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Methods For Enforcing Civil Judgments in Ontario - Canadian Subrogation Alert! - 5 pgs total, focus on Canada. When a court issues a judgment, it is not concerned with whether the unsuccessful party will ever actually pay the amount. Nonetheless, our civil court system does provide the successful insurer with mechanisms to assist in collecting payment from the unsuccessful defendant. The two most common mechanisms for this purpose are (1) a writ of seizure and sale, and (2) a garnishment of debts, such as wages, owing to the debtor.
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January 01, 2007
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
A Compelling Situation: Enforcing American Letters Rogatory in Ontario - The Canadian Bar Review - 28 pgs total; article from LA REVUE DU BARREAU CANADIEN. A letter rogatory, or
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