Farris was honoured to receive an Impact Case Award at the Benchmark Litigation Canada Awards ceremony held on May 8 in Toronto. These awards honour the best litigation firms and best individual litigators in Canada. Each year Benchmark selects a handful of cases from across the country which they determine are worthy of particular recognition, based on factors such as the dollar amounts involved, the precedential value of the decisions, the complexity of the issues, and the skill displayed by counsel.

The winning case was a complex dispute among the shareholders and directors of a group of related corporations. The Farris team was led by senior litigation partner Mike Wagner, assisted by litigation partner Matt Pierce. Together they drove our clients’ case forward aggressively to an excellent outcome.

The Farris litigation group includes a team of highly skilled litigators who follow an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to dealing with high value, high stakes cases. Contact Mike Wagner if you have a shareholder, governance or other corporate dispute, to discuss how Farris can help you.

Farris is honoured to receive this recognition from Benchmark, which is the only legal directory to focus exclusively on litigation, and which engages in a comprehensive and extensive annual research process, interviewing litigators and clients to arrive at its determinations on annual awards.  More information about the two partners who brought about this excellent result for our client, is set out below:

Mike Wagner, a litigator and dispute resolution lawyer for over 20 years, has been repeatedly recognized as a leading lawyer and litigation star by peer ranking services including Benchmark, Best Lawyers in Canada, and Lexpert. Mike’s litigation practice has four major components: company and shareholder litigation, private wealth disputes, class actions, and government / constitutional / environment litigation.

Matt Pierce has a broad litigation and dispute resolution practice, which he has developed over 17 years of practice spanning three jurisdictions (British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia). Matt advises and represents clients across a wide range of civil and commercial matters, focusing most notably on shareholder disputes and complex contract disputes, as well as construction and real estate litigation, corporate governance and securities law issues, and other regulatory matters.