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- Osgoode Hall Law School (2019) JD/MBA
- McGill University (2014) BA (Joint Honours) (English & Philosophy)
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Devon R. Kapoor (he/him)
is an associate at Lenczner Slaght.
Devon provides pragmatic advice to individual and corporate clients involved in complex disputes, with a particular focus on commercial litigation. He also has experience with intellectual property and construction and infrastructure matters, as well as appeals. Devon has represented clients at the Ontario Superior Court, Court of Appeal for Ontario, and Federal Courts. He has also represented parties as interveners in appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Prior to joining the firm, Devon practiced in New York for a leading US law firm, where he represented public and private companies in high-stakes commercial litigation.
He also served as a judicial law clerk to Justice Michael J. Moldaver at the Supreme Court of Canada, and Chief Justice George R. Strathy and Justice Michael H. Tulloch (as he then was) at the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
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Canadian News Media Companies v OpenAI (Jurisdiction Motion)
Our expert litigators were successful in resisting OpenAI’s motion to stay or dismiss claims brought by Canada’s leading news media organizations, on the basis that the Ontario court lacked jurisdiction. The Court concluded that it has jurisdiction over the claims and that the claims against OpenAI Inc., OpenAI OpCo LLC, OpenAI LLC, OpenAI Holdings LLC, OAI Corporation, and OpenAI Global can proceed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Read the decision here.
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Counsel for the Respondent in a complex foreign judgment enforcement application arising from long standing, multi-jurisdictional litigation, successfully resisting the Ontario recognition and enforcement of a number of foreign judgments, obtained against the Respondent in Ukrainian and British Virgin Islands.
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Lundin Mining Corporation v Dov Markowich
Counsel to the intervenor, CFA Societies Canada, at the Supreme Court of Canada in a matter that considers the definition of “material change” under the Securities Act.
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The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings v The Bank of Nova Scotia
Counsel to Scotiabank in an application before the Commercial List arising from a multi-million dollar cyber-fraud that involves complex cyber-security evidence and raises significant and potentially far-reaching legal issues regarding the scope of customers' and financial institutions' obligations to prevent cyber-fraud.
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Rabinowitz v 2528061 Ontario Inc
Counsel to the successful defendant in resisting a motion to reconsider a previous decision dismissing the plaintiff’s action seeking specific performance of an agreement of purchase and sale.
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Canadian News Media Companies v OpenAI
Counsel to Canada’s leading news media organizations in their legal action against OpenAI for breach of copyright, breach of online terms of use, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment for scraping large swaths of content (millions of works) from Canadian media to help develop its products, such as ChatGPT.
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Sunderland v Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Counsel to a real estate brokerage in a competition class action pertaining to an alleged conspiracy to control the price for buyer brokerage services in real estate transactions.
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Gilead Sciences, Inc et al v Pharmascience Inc
Counsel to Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc. in a NOC action in the Federal Court in respect of Canadian Patent Nos. 2,845,553 and 2,990,210.
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Gilead Sciences, Inc et al v JAMP Pharma Corporation
Counsel to Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc. in a NOC action in the Federal Court in respect of Canadian Patent No. 2,990,210.
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Gilead Sciences, Inc et al v Apotex Inc
Counsel to Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc. in a NOC action in the Federal Court in respect of Canadian Patent Nos. 2,845,553 and 2,990,210.
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Canadian Courts Have Jurisdiction to Address Misappropriation by AI Companies
In Toronto Star Newspapers Limited v OpenAI Inc, the Ontario Superior Court delivered a significant ruling on the jurisdiction of Ontario (and Canadian) courts to determine disputes relating to the misappropriation of content by artificial intelligence (AI) companies.
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Supreme Court: Public Disclosure Must Level the Playing Field Between Companies and Investors
In Lundin Mining Corp v Markowich, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a significant ruling on the scope of disclosure standards for public companies in Canada, holding that disclosure standards should be interpreted broadly and flexibly to deter informational asymmetry between issuers and investors.
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The recent decision in Munchkin Inc v Angelcare Canada Inc presents an example of circumstances in which foreign parent companies can be held liable for patent infringement in Canada.
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Lenczner Slaght Welcomes Devon Kapoor
Canada’s leading litigation firm adds another exceptional lawyer to its talent pool.
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Bronze Medal (2019)
Osgoode Hall Law School
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McCarthy Tétrault LLP Prize (2018)
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Schulich Entrance Award of Merit (2015)
Schulich School of Business
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Tory Research and Writing Award (2018)
Osgoode Hall Law School