Montréal’s Spiegel Ryan rebranded from its former iteration as Spiegel Sohmer this year, continuing its position as respected commercial litigation firm that specializes in corporate law and tax work. “They get a lot of Anglophile work in Montréal,” confirms a peer. Jason Novak is viewed as one of Spiegel’s most active partners. Novak acts for the plaintiff in an action for breach of contract with a US-based defendant involving amounts exceeding $6.5 million for the plaintiff and a cross-application by the defendant exceeding $10.5 million. David Banon acts for a staffing agency in the healthcare field accused of collusion and fraud, in which he obtained a stay of execution of a decision issued by the Authorité des Marchés Publics in Québec that had removed the client from the registry of companies ineligible to enter into contracts with government entities. Novak and Banon represented two brothers in a defamation lawsuit against a Montréal lawyer and real-estate developer who accused them of stealing and living of millions of dollars in gold bars allegedly belonging to victims of the Holocaust. The Spiegel pair secured a favorable judgment by which the defendant was ordered to pay the clients several hundred thousand dollars in damages for the reputational harm.
