Eric is a partner at Ross Nasseri. He maintains a busy civil, commercial, and regulatory litigation practice. He has appeared at all levels of Court in Ontario and has more than 45 reported decisions. In May 2023, he was named Benchmark’s Emerging Talent Litigator of the Year (Ontario).
Eric has acted for individuals and corporations in a wide variety of matters, including oppression remedy claims and shareholder disputes, directors’ and officers’ liability, professional negligence, employment matters, defamation, fraud, and all facets of real property litigation. Eric also acted as Commission counsel to the Public Order Emergency Commission led by Commissioner Paul Rouleau.
Eric has represented individuals and corporations in investigations by and prosecutions before the OSC, CMT, IIROC & MFDA (now CIRO), FSRA, CPSO, LSO and RECO. He has also represented accused individuals and corporations in simple and complex criminal matters, including a three-month jury trial.
Prior to joining Ross Nasseri, Eric spent more than three years at Polley Faith LLP. He also clerked for the judges of the Superior Court in Toronto, including the Judges of the Divisional Court and the Commercial List. Eric received his BCL/LLB from McGill University. He also has an MA and BA (Honours) in History from McGill.
Eric was named a Benchmark Litigation Future Star (2022-2024) and appeared on Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under List (2022 & 2023). He is also listed in Best Lawyers (2024) for Administrative & Public Law.
Notable Cases:
- Wayne Safety v. Gendelman et al. (2023 ONSC 3517 and 2023 ONSC 2478): obtaining urgent injunctive relief in a $5.6 million fraud.
- Binscarth Holdings LP v. Anthony et al. (2022 ONSC 3426 and 2022 ONSC 5526): acting for the respondents to a motion for leave to commence a derivative action.
- Akelius Canada Inc. v. 2436196 Ontario Inc. et al. (2020 ONSC 6182, affirmed: 2022 ONCA 259): acting for the successful defendants in an action for $250+ million in damages based on a failed real estate deal.
- Q3 Networking LLC v. Siemens (2021 ONSC 2808): enforcing letters rogatory in relation to IP litigation in the United States.
- Labourers’ International Union of North America, Local 183 et al. v. Castellano (2019 ONSC 506, varied: 2020 ONCA 71): acting for the successful plaintiffs in a motion for summary judgment and in resisting one of the earliest motions under Ontario’s anti-SLAPP provision.
- R. v. Beattie (2017 ONSC 7686): acting for a woman charged with making a false prospectus under s. 400 of the Criminal Code. The jury acquitted Eric’s client after two days of deliberations.
- Best v. Ranking (2015 ONSC 6279, aff ’d: 2016 ONCA 492): obtaining costs personally against a solicitor under r. 57.05, and defended the decision on appeal and from leave to appeal.
Updated April 2024
