Lara Jackson (she/her/hers) is a partner in the Litigation Group at Cassels and is the Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Group. Lara has an active and varied commercial litigation practice with expertise in class actions and securities litigation. Lara brings a strategic, analytical and practical approach to the most complicated disputes, while maintaining her focus on achieving resolution as efficiently as possible. She has defended numerous class actions involving securities, competition law and oppression matters. Lara also regularly represents market participants in Canadian and cross-border civil and regulatory proceedings involving alleged securities act violations. She has represented clients in a broad range of commercial cases involving proxy contests, takeover bids, contested plans of arrangement, shareholder disputes, oppression remedies, and insolvency disputes. Lara is recognized as a leader in her field by Best Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Litigation (as one of the top 100 women in litigation in Canada) and Chambers Canada, which notes that Lara is an “excellent tactician” and a “very analytical and thoughtful litigator” who does an “‘excellent job’ of defending clients’ interests.”
Lara’s representative work includes:
- Defending financial institutions in price fixing competition class actions
- Defending issuers and individual directors and officers in securities class actions, including numerous cross-border securities class actions
- Representing bidders and targets in hostile takeover bid litigation
- Representing market participants in cross-border criminal and regulatory proceedings
- Representing issuers and individual directors and officers in breach of contract and breach of confidentiality proceedings, including injunction and Anton Piller proceedings
- Representing a minority shareholder of a public company in a successful appellate court reversal of court of approval of a plan of arrangement
Lara is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Audit & Risk Management Committee.
