Gordon Capern is a senior partner and a leader of the firm’s corporate and commercial litigation practice.
Gordon enjoys acting for entrepreneurs. He has spent much of his career acting in cases where there are significant business and personal interests at stake.
He has advised clients and acted as counsel in the resolution of disputes in all areas of corporate and commercial activity:
- complex commercial transactions in a wide array of industries
- public and private company shareholder and partnership disputes
- liability of professional advisors, including auditors, accountants and lawyers
- director, officer and employee litigation, with considerable expertise in their fiduciary obligations
- franchises and dealerships
Education
- Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1989
Professional Affiliations
- Director (2019) and Fellow (2015), International Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Fellow, International Society of Barristers (2018)
- Past Director, Advocates' Society
Representative Work
Gordon has been involved in a number of significant briefs including acting as counsel to:
- Andrew Stronach in Stronach vs. Stronach
- Labrador Nickel Royal LP in a major claim against Vale in respect of the Voisey's Bay Mine
- Barrick Gold in a claim relating to the ownership of a Chilean mine
- Hollinger Inc. in claims against its auditors and its banking syndicate
- respondents in high-profile insider trading and tipping cases before the Ontario Securities Commission
Awards and Honours
- Recognized in the 2021 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as Consistently Recommended - Litigation - Corporate Commercial
- Recognized in the 2020 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as Most Frequently Recommended - Litigation - Corporate Commercial
- Recognized by Benchmark Litigation as 2020 Litigation Star
- Recognized in the 2020 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
- Recognized in the 2019 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as Most Frequently Recommended - Litigation - Corporate Commercial
- Recognized by Benchmark Litigation as 2019 Litigation Star
- Featured in Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
- Featured in the Globe and Mail's Lexpert®/Report on Business Magazine - Leading Litigation Lawyer, December 2018
- Ranked by Chambers Canada 2019 in Litigation: General Commercial practice area in Ontario
- Chambers Global
- Chambers Global, Canada
- The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
- Lexpert/Report on Business Guide to Leading Litigation Lawyers
- Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada
- Best Lawyers in Canada
- Benchmark Litigation - Litigation Star
- Featured in the Globe and Mail's Lexpert®/Report on Business Magazine - Leading Litigation Lawyer, December 2015
- Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Commercial Litigation since 2014
Publications and Presentations