Fahad Siddiqui
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Fahad Siddiqui acts in urgent and complex commercial and securities issues. He is a member of our market-leading special situations team and has served as lead counsel in trials, dispositive motions, arbitrations and appeals.
Clients rely on Fahad to guide them through their most challenging problems. He has successfully brought and defended cases involving contested M&A transactions, shareholder claims, proxy contests, contract disputes and regulatory challenges. He has also advised clients in North America, Europe and Asia on cross-border and reputational issues including testimony before Parliament.
Fahad previously served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the High Court of Delhi and practised with an international firm based in New York City.
Fahad maintains an active pro bono practice. He has served on the boards of and represented public interest organizations, including the Innocence Network, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers and the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario.
Professional experience
Collapse allJ.D., Osgoode Hall Law School, 2013
M.A., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2009
B.A., Trinity College, University of Toronto, 2007
- Ontario 2014
- Defeated application seeking to enjoin $3-billion sale of shares in Highway 407 (2019 ONSC 4423)
- Defeated claim seeking $120 million in damages for breach of a technology contract (2022 ONSC 1310)
- Part of numerous successful shareholder activist and defence mandates involving public and private companies
- Succeeded in oppression arbitration on behalf of minority shareholder resulting in sale of private business for several hundred million dollars
- Defeated claims of more than $80 million in insolvency proceedings of national retailer
- Part of team that successfully challenged new federal regulations on behalf of industry association (2022 FCA 210)
- Obtained emergency injunction on behalf of reinsurance multinational requiring return of confidential software code (2018 ONSC 4529)
- Part of team that obtained order prohibiting acquisition of evidence in the US for use in proposed $1 billion class action in Ontario alleging price-fixing in the foreign exchange market (2017 ONSC 87, aff'd 2018 ONSC 1844)
- Defeated anti-SLAPP motion and obtained videotaped apology, charitable donation, and significant damages award in defamation suit brought on behalf of food services company and its principal (2018 ONSC 3711, 2019 ONSC 2910)
- Pro bono work includes constitutional challenges to solitary confinement (2017 ONSC 7491) and representing interveners and amici curiae before the Supreme Court of Canada (2022 SCC 27) and the Supreme Court of the United States (137 S.Ct. 911 (2017))
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2023: Leading Lawyer to Watch in Litigation - Regulatory & Public Law
- Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40
- The Legal 500: Key Lawyer
- Lexpert Top 10 Business Decisions for 2020-21 for Marian L. Carroll v. Toronto-Dominion Bank c.o.b.TD Bank Group, et al.
- Lexpert to 10 Cases for 2019-20 for 4352238 Canada Inc. v. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., et al.
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"Economic Duress in the Canadian Common Law of Contracts: What's the Test," Advocates' Quarterly (Vol. 53, 2023)
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"The Scope of Surrounding Circumstances in Contract Interpretation," Toronto Law Journal (April 2022)
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"The Supreme Court Speaks: SLAPP Suits after Pointes and Platnick," Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2022
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"We Should Judge Decisions, not Judges," The Toronto Star
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"Much Ado About § 1782: Compelling American Discovery for Use in Canadian Class Actions," Annual Review of Civil Litigation, cited in Ontario Superior Court Practice: Annotated Rules & Legislation
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"Time to Name an Aboriginal Justice to the Supreme Court," The Toronto Star
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"A Case Study on International Investment Law and Policy," Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy
- Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Technology, privacy and cybersecurity summit: Legal insights for a digital age, October 26, 2022
- Ontario Bar Association, 21st Annual Charter Conference: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law, October 12, 2022
- Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association, Annual Conference, hosted fireside discussion with the Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal, September 26, 2021
- Ontario Bar Association and Roundtable of Diversity Associations, 6th Annual Diversity Conference, December 7, 2020
- Runnymede Society, Appellate Litigation in Canada and the US: Former Supreme Court Clerks' Perspectives, October 21, 2020
- Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, COVID-19: Building business resiliency in Canada - Legal considerations for the new normal (webinar), April 22, 2020
- Association of Corporate Counsel, 6th Annual Securities Law Symposium (Toronto), "Potential Privilege Pitfalls for In-house Counsel," November 13, 2019
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
- Law Society of Ontario
- The Advocates' Society
- English
- French
- Hindi
- Urdu
News
Canadian partner recognized in the 2022 Lexpert Leading Lawyers Under 40
November 23, 2022
54 lawyers globally promoted as 2022 partner class
January 11, 2022
Insights
Bill C-11: Sweeping changes to Canada’s Broadcasting Act passed into law
Publication | May 16, 2023
Technology, privacy and cybersecurity summit
Webinar | October 26, 2022
Proposed legislation protects Ontario businesses from pandemic-related legal claims
Publication | October 21, 2020