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- Osgoode Hall Law School (2020) JD
- McGill University (2015) BComm (Accounting)
- Queen’s University (2015) GDAP (Accounting)
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Arash Nayerahmadi (he/him)
is an associate at Lenczner Slaght.
Arash’s litigation practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and professional liability. His clients have included professional services firms, technology companies, mining developers, fuel distributors, real estate developers, and retailers. Arash has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Court of Appeal for Ontario. He has also represented clients in arbitration and administrative tribunals.
Prior to joining the firm, Arash served as a judicial law clerk to the judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, including the Commercial List.
Arash graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he received numerous academic awards, and finished in the top 10% of the graduating class and second overall in his final year. He served as the Executive Editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and volunteered at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association through Pro Bono Students Canada.
Before starting his career in law, Arash was an associate in the financial audit group at a multinational professional services firm and a management consultant at a top Toronto firm.
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Romspen Investment Corporation v Woodbine Mall Holdings Inc et al
Counsel to the responding party in a three-day trial of issues conducted under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
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Co-counsel to intervenors in an appeal of the Divisional Court’s decision to set aside a decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. The appeal concerned, among other things, partial discrimination on the basis of citizenship under Ontario’s Human Rights Code
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Counsel to a psychedelic medicine company in a British Columbia securities class action.
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Counsel to minority shareholders advancing an oppression remedy claim against the corporation, its directors and the controlling shareholder in a complex two-week arbitration.
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Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario Proceeding
Counsel to the former Chief Commercial Officer of a reporting issuer in the federally regulated cannabis industry in a matter before the Discipline Committee.
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Counsel to the respondents in a motion to determine whether the court or an arbitrator has jurisdiction over two distinct disputes.
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Counsel to the defendant physicians in an interlocutory motion to amend the Statement of Claim to add an additional defendant.
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Counsel to the defendants in a claim alleging breach of contract.
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The Advocates’ Society
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Canadian Bar Association
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Ontario Bar Association
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Lenczner Slaght Welcomes Six New Associates
Canada’s leading litigation firm continues to strengthen its talent pool with the addition of six exceptional associates.
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2024 Class Actions Wrap-Up: Top 10 Cases Across Canada
2024 was another noteworthy year for class actions in Ontario and across the country. In our Class Actions Wrap-Up, Paul-Erik Veel, Jonathan Chen, and Arash Nayerahmadi highlight our top 10 class action decisions of 2024. These decisions reflect the most significant developments of the last year, and we expect they will set the tone for 2025.
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2024 Snapshot: Through the Lens of Lenczner Slaght
Lenczner Slaght launches our 2024 Snapshot, which highlights the most significant developments, decisions, and trends in litigation from the past year across 20 areas of expertise. Reflect on 2024 and look ahead to 2025 through the lens of our expert litigators.
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2023 Snapshot: Through the Lens of Lenczner Slaght
Lenczner Slaght launches our 2023 Snapshot, a look at the most significant developments, decisions, business takeaways, and trends in litigation from the last year, across 15 practice areas. Revisit 2023 and look ahead to 2024 through the lens of our expert litigators.
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Far Beyond Baker: Heuristics and the Inadequacy of the Reasonable Apprehension of Bias Analysis
Arash Nayerahmadi authored an article examining the reasonable apprehension of bias analysis in light of adjudicators’ vulnerability to cognitive biases. His article was published in Volume 59 of the Osgoode Hall Journal.
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Over-Indebted Criminals in Canada
Arash Nayerahmadi co-authored the article, “Over-Indebted Criminals in Canada”, published in Volume 32, No. 4 (2019) of the Manitoba Law Journal. This article examines the “justice debt” regime, including the formerly mandatory victim surcharge, to illustrate the ways it interacts with the lives of indigent Canadians. (Prior to joining Lenczner Slaght)