John M. Picone* is the National Chair of the firm’s Advocacy Practice and Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Group. His practice focuses on complex securities, corporate, and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on shareholder disputes, class actions, and securities-related regulatory proceedings and investigations. John takes a strategic, practical, and results-oriented approach to highly complicated disputes. He has extensive experience representing public companies, directors and senior executives, and shareholders across numerous industries, especially in urgent litigation.
John has argued appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and regularly appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) and the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal.
John has recently acted as litigation counsel for the following clients:
- A major public mining company and its directors and officers before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario
- Directors and officers of public companies in complex oppression proceedings and related litigation before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List)
- Companies and individuals in high-stakes regulatory and review proceedings before the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal and the British Columbia Securities Commission
- Applicants and court-appointed officers in highly complex restructuring proceedings
- Numerous public companies and hedge funds in the cannabis sector in proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and at arbitration
*Services provided through a Professional Corporation
