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Foglers Advantage.
77 King Street West
Suite 3000, P.O. Box 95
TD Centre North Tower
Toronto, ON M5K 1G8
2024 Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
Andrea’s practice focuses on employment law.
As a partner in the Employment and Labour Group, Andrea represents employers in wrongful dismissal actions and provides advice to employers in all facets of employment law including negotiating and drafting employment agreements, severance packages, confidentiality agreements, non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agreements, termination letters and human resource policies.
Andrea also provides advice to employers regarding employment standards, human rights and human resource issues. Andrea frequently attends the workplace itself to provide training seminars and to conduct workplace investigations. She has significant experience in injunctive proceedings as they relate to the enforcement of restrictive covenants contained in employment contracts.
Andrea publishes a newsletter entitled Employment Matters and is bilingual in English and French.
Ross is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution group.
Ross has a broad practice, including commercial litigation, construction law, tax litigation, estate litigation and health law matters. Ross has appeared before various courts and tribunals in Ontario.
Ross is recognized by his peers in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada, in the area of Construction Law.
David Levangie is a Partner in Fogler, Rubinoff’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. He maintains a general litigation practice with a focus on complex commercial litigation and arbitrations.
David also has broad and diverse experience in administrative law, particularly in education related matters and is a past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association Education Law Section.
David has extensive experience in cases considering breach of contract, shareholder disputes, oppression and breaches of fiduciary duties. David has acted as lead counsel before all levels of Court in Ontario, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, arbitration panels, and administrative and regulatory Tribunals.
In 2016, David was the recipient of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award for his exceptional contributions to the community.
In 2005, David obtained a B.Soc.Sc. in Criminology and Political Science, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and was awarded the Silver Medal for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He obtained an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2008 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2009.
David is proud of his 6 years of service in the Canadian Armed Forces. During his service he was the recipient of numerous awards, including Soldier of the Year for his Regiment, and Service Person of the Year for the entire Communications Group (comprised of Regiments and Units across Ontario).
Alex is a Partner in the Commercial Real Estate group.
He acts for landlords, tenants, REITs, First Nations, developers, franchisors, franchisees, lenders and property managers in respect of industrial, commercial, retail, renewable energy, residential, restaurant, cannabis and office leases.
Alex also acts for clients on a number of corporate/commercial matters, including advising on, drafting and negotiating various commercial contracts.
Alex has written articles on commercial leasing, led roundtables and made presentations at the International Council of Shopping Centres and the Law Society of Ontario.
Gary has extensive experience working as a lawyer and advisor in various industries. He practices in a number of areas of business law, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, capital markets and securities, corporate finance, energy and technology.
He regularly advises Canadian and international companies, underwriters, investors and professional advisors on a range of transactions, including IPO’s, private placements, RTO’s, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate governance, compensation programs, private equity, venture capital, partnerships, joint ventures and reorganization transactions. He has managed many legal teams on significant, complex transactions.
Gary also represents a number of Indigenous Communities, and their institutions across Canada on business transactions, the formation of economic development groups and other matters focused principally on governance and wealth creation. Gary often works as co-counsel to leading national law firms specializing in Aboriginal law who focus on land claims negotiations, aboriginal and treaty rights advocacy, and consultations with government and industry. Gary provides advice on major commercial and industrial developments and impact benefit agreements throughout Canada, including in respect of infrastructure, energy transmission, renewable energy generation, logistics and transportation projects.
Gary is a repeatedly recommended lawyer in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT™ Directory in Indigenous Law, as well as a leading lawyer in The 2024 Best Lawyers™ in Canada publication in the area of Indigenous Law.
Gary has been a member of the Board of Directors of a number of publicly traded and private corporations in various industries. Currently, he is a director of a publicly-traded wireless technology company, a private utility company providing clean energy solutions, a private managed equipment services company providing turn-key and fully financed equipment solutions in the health care sector, and a private project management and service delivery platform company providing wealth generation systems for First Nations and their service providers. He has sat on various committees of these Boards, including the Audit and Risk Management Committee, Corporate Governance Committee (Chair) and Compensation and Human Resources Committee. As a result of his legal training and past involvement in various private businesses as an investor, owner and operator, he is actively sought out as a sounding board by his clients on both legal and business matters.
Alan’s practice focuses on Commercial Real Estate and Commercial Leasing. Alan works with clients to maximize their financial and business objectives.
Alan’s practice includes commercial real estate transactions consisting of acquisitions, dispositions and financing of revenue producing properties including joint ventures, construction, design/build projects and development projects. Alan also specializes in commercial leasing in the office, retail and industrial sectors for both landlords and tenants, representing and advising owners, developers, asset managers, hospitals, banks, Reits, retail chains and retailers in all aspects of leasing, negotiations, rights, remedies, operational and management matters.
Alan frequently speaks on real estate and commercial leasing matters for industry groups and professional organizations. He is also the co-organizer of a series of Annual Seminar Programs featuring guest CFO Hospital speakers who are Alan’s clients. These seminars are uniquely created for the Hospital sector to focus on creating and maximizing Retail Leasing Revenue for Hospitals. Prior to joining the firm, Alan was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Olympia & York, an international real estate developer and owner, for 13 years.
Joseph’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transaction, commercial mortgages, and mortgage enforcement proceeding acting for both institutional and private investors.
Clients appreciate Joseph’s ability to navigating them through the challenging process of enforcing mortgages, both residential and commercial. Joseph also has significant experience in all facets of real estate work-outs and restructurings and acts as real estate counsel for receivers.
Joseph is recognized as a leading lawyer in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada for real estate law.
Martine is a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group, with a focus on commercial litigation.
Martine acts for a broad range of clients, including individuals and corporations, both big and small. She recognizes that every client needs advice and a legal strategy that best suits their needs, with consideration of the financial costs of litigation. She has acted in a variety of matters, including cases involving real estate and property disputes, shareholder disputes, oppression remedy proceedings, Mareva and other injunctive proceedings, negligence claims, contractual disputes and estate litigation.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Martine devoted an extensive amount of her life to training for and playing hockey at the highest level. She was a Division I All-American at the University of New Hampshire, and also played for the Team Canada Under 22 women’s hockey team program for several years. Martine worked her way up from being at the bottom of the Under 22 program’s rankings (and not making the team her first year), to becoming part of the Team Canada Senior National team. Martine achieved a lifelong dream of playing for the Senior National Team at the Four Nations Tournament in Sweden in front of her family.
Martine brings to the court room the same work ethic, intensity and intelligence that she did to the arena. While she is a fierce advocate, she also recognizes that not all problems require litigation and early resolution is often the best result for clients. Where litigation is necessary, Martine will take a practical and strategic approach in order to advance her clients’ interests.
When she is not litigating, Martine and her wife, Suzanne, try to keep up with their two wonderful and exhausting children, Jack and Shea. She also tries to find time to stay active, either golfing and trying to keep her drives on the fairway, or playing hockey.
Martine is a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and understands the importance of making the firm a more diverse and inclusive place to work.
Representative Work
- Represented an individual shareholder in an arbitration. The arbitrator dismissed the opposing parties’ claims of oppression against the client and further denied their request to wind up the corporation.
- Represented a commercial landlord and successfully received an order for security for costs against a defaulting tenant corporation.
- Represented a dentist in a claim against him relating to the sale of his dental practice.
- Represented an individual shareholder who jointly owned a motor vehicle dealership with a friend. The client alleged oppression against the defendants. The Court found the defendants had oppressed our client, and awarded damages: Tahmasebi v Hamid, 2021 ONSC 3775 (CanLII).
- Represented a mortgagee in obtaining judgment against defaulting mortgagor following power of sale.
- Represented First Nations’ client in action involving dispute over reserve land.
- Represented a corporation in an oppression remedy application brought by a shareholder.
- Represented a commercial landlord in an action for unpaid rents against a tenant that vacated the premises prior to the expiry of the lease.
- Represented an exporter in a claim against a supplier for breach of the Sale of Goods Act.
- Represented a corporation and its principal in a defamation lawsuit against a former business partner.
- Represented a musician in a breach of contract claim by a former manager.
- Represented a motor vehicle dealership in defending claim by a former customer.
- Represented a not-for-profit corporation in dispute against former partner in a project.
- Represented a manufacturer of goods against a distributor in a claim for breach of contract, unjust enrichment and a claim for fraudulent conveyance under the Fraudulent Conveyances Act. Martine successfully obtained a Mareva injunction against the defendants at the outset of litigation: S. Cohen Inc. v FD Apparel Limited, 2017 ONSC 2734 (CanLII).
Jeff practices in the firm’s Real Estate Group.
Jeff focuses his practice on all aspects of real estate acquisitions and dispositions and real estate development with a particular emphasis on shopping centres, housing development projects and mixed use developments, including structuring and settling various co-ownership agreements, management agreements and related financings.
Jeff has been involved in the development of some of Canada’s largest new format or power shopping centres including the land acquisition, joint development agreements with anchor users and processing the development through the entire municipal approvals process and the sale of portions to anchor users.
Samantha is a litigator who delivers sincerity and strategic foresight.
Samantha has more than a decade of experience in business disputes, real estate disputes and professional liability claims. She is a business-minded litigator who offers a customized litigation experience for her clients. She actively listens to her clients concerns, examines the big picture, and proactively problem-solves.
Samantha is the incoming Chair of the civil litigation section executive of the Ontario Bar Association and has chaired many professional development programs for early and mid career lawyers on professional liability claims, business development and practice management.
Samantha has acted as counsel in trials and motions for summary judgment involving solicitor negligence claims, disputes over breached real estate agreements, and other contractual disputes before the Ontario Superior Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Samantha is currently enrolled in the Executive MBA with the Ivey School of Business. At Folgers, Samantha is co-chair of the Fogler’s Business Development Committee and is excited to train early-career lawyers on the business of lawyering.
