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phenein@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 860 5222
Fax: 647 259 7974

Toronto
Suite 2100, Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
Canada

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Peter Henein

Peter's practice is focused on commercial litigation, class actions, securities litigation and product liability. He has worked with a wide variety of clients, ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations, including both international auto and drug manufacturers to national and international franchisors.

Some of Peter’s most recent work includes:

• Working on numerous class actions involving a wide range of issues for a variety of clients, including specifically auto manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies
• Handling a multi-million dollar arbitration of a franchise dispute for an international client
• Handling product liability files for automobile manufacturers and distributors
• Working with copyright collectives on tariff enforcement and copyright infringement issues
• Assisting corporate clients with risk management issues and shareholder disputes
• Defending an oppression remedy application for a multinational corporation
• Enforcing letters rogatory (i.e. letters of request) from foreign jurisdiction 

Peter is a tutorial leader and guest lecturer for the Osgoode Hall law school civil procedure class. He is a contributing writer to the Watson & McGowan “Annual Survey of Recent Developments in Civil Procedure." Peter is an active member of the Advocates' Society, is nominated secretary to the Young Advocates' Standing Committee, and sits on the Collegiality, Mentoring and Membership Committee. In 2009, Peter sat on the Principals of Professionalism Committee of the Advocates' Society Symposium on Professionalism.

Peter attended the University of Western Ontario Law School, where he received the Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Company Law Award. At Western, he represented his law school in the Jessup International Law Moot, winning second prize in Canada for factum writing.

Education

LL.B., University of Western Ontario, 2003
B.A. (with Distinction), University of Toronto, 1994

Call to the bar

Ontario, 2004

Associations

• Advocates' Society (nominated secretary to the Young Advocates' Standing Committee; sits on the Collegiality, Mentoring and Membership Committee)
• Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
• Canadian Actors' Equity Association
• Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Defence Lawyers
• DRI (Defence Research Institute)
• Ontario Bar Association