Michael Binetti

Michael Binetti, a partner of the firm, brings a proven litigation background plus extensive experience in arguing both trials and appeals. He has demonstrated his strategic legal capability and expertise in wide-ranging areas of litigation. Michael’s peers and clients have commented that Michael is an “excellent and creative lawyer,” “finds unique solutions to complex problems,” and that “Michael gets it and knows how to win.”

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• Not Disclosing Additional Fees Triggers $4.5 Million Fine for Ticketmaster
• Open Courts Principle Trumps Speculative Concerns Over Physical Harm
• Fake Discount Case Settled Against Hudson's Bay Company

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• Michael Binetti Quoted in National Post: Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Volkswagen ads axed due to 'harmful' gender stereotyping
• David Vaillancourt Earns Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Rating
• ABA/CBA Teleconference Materials

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Masiel A. Matus

Masiel has a broad commercial litigation practice and represents both national and international clients in a variety of complex matters. Masiel has experience litigating cases involving professional negligence, commercial leasing and real property disputes, insurance, contract disputes, shareholder disputes, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust, employment matters and defamation claims.

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• Alberta court declines to certify class action alleging negligent performance of investment advisory services
• Court of Appeal upholds stay of secondary market misrepresentation claim on jurisdictional grounds
• Simply creating a website for a business is not unregistered trading or “an act in furtherance of a trade”, court rules

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Jacob Millar (Articling Student)

Jacob Millar joins Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP as an Articling Student.

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• Competition Bureau releases new Abuse of Dominance Enforcement guidelines March 7, 2019
• Superior Court sentences trader to six months incarceration for trading in Promissory Notes despite securities trading ban
• Ontario’s Top Court considers Anti-SLAPP legislation in a series of cases

Kyle Taylor

Kyle Taylor is an experienced competition and commercial litigator. He has built a distinctly diverse practise, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in cutting edge competition cases and class actions, as well as all manner of business disputes, including corporate, contract, securities, fraud and malfeasance, real estate, and international litigation. Having practised for many years in New York, Kyle is rare among litigators to combine expertise in American litigation with a Canadian litigation practise. He has experience in major jurisdictions in both countries, including state, provincial, federal, and appellate courts. The breadth and versatility of his practise uniquely benefit clients from either side of the border, no matter the case or what side of the “v.” they appear. Kyle started his legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro of the District of Massachusetts. Before joining Affleck Greene McMurtry, Kyle practised in the New York office of the global litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. At Quinn Emanuel, Kyle represented Fortune 500 companies and individuals alike in competition cases, class actions, and a variety of commercial disputes.

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• Court of Appeal Adds Banks to FX Price Fixing Class Action
• Effort To Examine Competition Bureau Runs Out Of Gas At Supreme Court
• RoRo Price Fixing Class Action Rolls On Against Foreign Defendants

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Annie Tayyab

Annie Tayyab skillfully navigates a wide range of competition and commercial matters. Her experience includes multi-jurisdictional class actions, complex contractual disputes, competition law, shareholder disputes, regulatory proceedings, consumer protection, commercial leasing, condominium legislation, and professional negligence, including errors and omissions by brokers/dealers and lawyers.

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• Key Recommendations from the Law Commission of Ontario Report on Class Actions
• Supreme Court Decides Businesses Cannot Be Part Of Class Action Where Arbitration Clause Exists
• WTO Rules Against Canada in Bombardier Dispute

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David N. Vaillancourt

David's practice expertise focuses on all matters of Commercial and Civil Litigation, Competition and Administrative Law. David has acted for clients in a wide range of disputes, including shareholder and partnership disputes, securities litigation, class action defence, proceedings under the Competition Act, employment law disputes, contract disputes, breach of confidence/intellectual property disputes, fidelity bond claims, and professional negligence claims. David has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, including the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and has also appeared before the Competition Tribunal and the Federal Court of Appeal. David has appeared as lead counsel in numerous trials, hearings, and motions. David has been successful in numerous adversarial proceedings, and also has successfully negotiated the resolution of dozens of cases.

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• The Private Competition Enforcement Review, 11th Edition
• Court of Appeal Smokes Rescission Finding in Grow-Op Case
• Extinct Criminal Retail Price Maintenance Provisions Extract Fine from Beyond the Grave

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