Lara Jackson is a partner in the Litigation Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, where she serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Groups.
Lara has an active and varied commercial litigation practice with particular 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. Lara has represented clients in a broad range of commercial cases involving proxy contests, takeover bids, contested plans of arrange-ment, shareholder disputes, oppression remedies, insolvency disputes and securities and competition class actions. Lara also regularly represents market participants in Canadian and cross-border civil and regulatory proceedings involving alleged securi-ties act violations.
Lara’s representative work includes:
- Defending issuers and individual directors and officers in securities class actions
- Defending financial institutions in price fixing competition class actions
- Representing market participants in securities regulatory proceedings
- Representing issuers and individual directors and officers in complex commercial litigation disputes
- Representing bidders and targets in hostile takeover bid litigation
- Representing issuers and stakeholders in contested plans of arrangement
In 2022, Lara was elected to a four-year term as a Director of The Advocates’ Society. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association, Litigation Counsel of America, Ontario Bar Association, Toronto Lawyers Association, and Wom-en’s White Collar Defense Association.
Lara is recognized as a leader in her field by Best Lawyers, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and Chambers Canada, in which clients note that Lara is an “excellent tactician” and a “very analytical and thoughtful litigator” who does an “‘excellent job’ of defending clients’ interests.”
