BComm (Mount Allison), LLB (Western)
Brad Ross is a partner at Goodmans LLP. He has a broad transactional-based practice involving all aspects of corporate and securities law, with particular emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He also assists companies with their corporate governance and continuous disclosure obligations.
Mr. Ross is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he teaches Case Studies in Business Enterprises.
Malcolm Mercer is the Chair of the Ontario Law Society Tribunal which adjudicates lawyer and paralegal conduct, capacity and licensing disputes. He speaks and writes regularly on legal ethics. He is an adjunct professor of Osgoode Hall Law School, teaching legal ethics, and a member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. Malcolm was previously the administrator of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board. Malcolm was previously an elected bencher from and Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario, which regulates lawyers and paralegals in Ontario. Malcolm has been a member of the Ontario Judicial Council, Chair of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the Canadian Bar Association, Ethics and Regulatory Team Lead for the CBA Futures Project, General Counsel to and litigation partner of McCarthy Tétrault LLP and member of the Immigration Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board.
David Carter is the co-founding partner of Grechi Carter Professional Corporation. His practice is focused on residential and commercial real estate law, private mortgage financing and mortgage enforcement work. He enjoys advising clients on structuring various real estate related business opportunities including real estate development, mortgage brokering, mortgage syndications, and establishing and administering private mortgage investment groups, companies and trusts.
Mr. Carter completed his JD law degree at Queen’s University, which included a certificate in International Public Law at Herstmonceaux Castle, in East Sussex, England. Before attending Queen’s, Mr. Carter received a BA from McGill University with a double major in Economics and History.
Mr. Carter is the co-author of the real estate law text book: Real Estate Transactions, 2nd Edition. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and is an ongoing teacher for the Real Property Investment Certificate Program offered in partnership with the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. He has authored papers for the Six Minute Real Estate Lawyer and other conferences on topics including Time of the Essence, Outstanding Building Permits, Construction Financing and Mortgagees, Self-to-Self Power of Sales, s. 17 of the Mortgages Act, and CRA Super Priorities and Mortgages.
Al practices in the areas of corporate and securities law with an emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising companies with respect to securities regulatory compliance matters. He also acts on matters related to contested shareholder meetings. Al articled at a major energy corporation headquartered in Toronto, later joining the corporate finance department where he gained extensive experience drafting and negotiating financial and physical commodity and other agreements. Mr. Wiens joined Wildeboer Dellelce LLP in 2003.
Called to the Ontario bar, 1978. Practises civil litigation with Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP. Adjunct Professor (teaching advanced civil procedure since 1985) and senior instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop (teaching since 1981), Osgoode Hall Law School. Recipient, Osgoode Adjunct Faculty Distinguished Service Award, 2009. Recipient, Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Advocates’ Society, 2019. Recipient, Court of Appeal Medallion for legal and administrative efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Former head of Section for Ontario, Civil Litigation, Bar Admission Course (Ontario), Law Society of Ontario (1993-2004).
Stephen Selznick is a partner with Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP; specializing in intellectual property and entertainment law with particular emphasis on structuring, restructuring, finance and litigation. He is a leading practitioner in entertainment and sports law. Called to the Bar in the Province of Ontario (LSO Arthur Wentworth Roebuck Award). He also holds an AV Preeminent™ lawyer’s rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Selznick is listed by Who’s Who Legal as one of the world’s leading sports & entertainment practitioners. He has also been recognized by American Registry as a Most Honoured Professional, has been included in World Trademark Review’s top 1,000 trademark lawyers internationally, and as a “Top Lawyer” by Lawyers Weekly’s “In House Counsel Magazine”. He also has been named an IP Copyright Star by Managing Intellectual Property. Mr. Selznick is as a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, and sits on the International Trademark Association Panel of Trademark Mediators. Mr. Selznick lectures widely in Canada and abroad on intellectual property and entertainment issues and serves as contributing editor for the Theatre and Motion Picture section and the Author and Publisher section of Canada Law Book’s “O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms”.
Jonathan Rosenthal is a Toronto-based criminal defence attorney. His practice focuses on white collar matters and regulatory offences. He has appeared at every level of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School with his LLB in 1987. He is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he is Director of the Trial Advocacy Program and Co-Director of the Intensive Program in Criminal Law. He is also the course director of the Advanced Certificate in Oral Advocacy and a Team Leader of the Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop (ITAW), an annual course offered to practising lawyers by Osgoode Professional Development. He has served a similar function at the Intensive Trial Program offered to practising lawyers by the University of Moncton. He is also a Team Leader at Notre Dame Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. In addition, he is a lecturer at continuing legal education seminars offered by the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Advocates Society, Osgoode Professional Development, the Alberta Department of Justice, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Ontario Court of Justice Toronto Regional Judges’ Seminar, the Ontario Court of Justices East Regional Judges’ Seminar and Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences. Mr. Rosenthal is a former Vice President of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association. He is also an elected bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada where he is currently the Chair of Proceeding Authorization Committee. He is also a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Rondinelli, LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Osgoode), is a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice. Before being appointed to the bench in 2017, he was a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto, where he argued appeals regularly before the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Justice Rondinelli joined the adjunct faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2003. As a lawyer, he was awarded the inaugural Ontario Bar Association Award of Excellence in Criminal Justice in 2017.
BA (Western Ontario), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (LSE)
Lawrence Ritchie recently re-joined Osler,Hoskin & Harcourt LLP to chair it’s cross-disciplinary Risk Management and Crisis Response practice group. He also co-chairs the firm’s national Capital Markets Regulatory Enforcement and Broker-Dealer Disputes team. Among other things, he advises public corporations, their directors, officers, and in-house counsel on avoiding, preparing for, managing and responding to extraordinary “crisis” situations. He acts for clients in connection with conducting and responding to internal and regulatory investigations, with defending parties resulting in regulatory proceedings, class actions and related litigation. He has extensive experience, in particular in identifying and addressing regulatory and other enforcement issues encountered by participants in the Canadian capital markets, providing proactive corporate governance and other risk management advisory services, and represents clients when necessary to address relevant matters with regulators, self-regulatory organizations and in the courts.
In 2007, Mr. Ritchie was appointed Vice-Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, where he served as a member of the Commission’s Board of Directors, and its Executive Management and Adjudicative Committees, and sat on and chaired adjudicative panels.
From late 2009 until the completion of his term as OSC Vice-Chair in February 2014, Mr. Ritchie was seconded to the Canadian Securities Transition Office (the organization supporting the federal government’s initiative for a Canadian common securities regulator). He served as the CSTO’s Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor and, since his return to Osler, remains Senior Policy Advisor to the CSTO.
Prior to the OSC, Mr. Ritchie was a litigation partner with Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, where his practice included a range of securities, governance and business litigation matters, including regulatory investigations and proceedings.
He holds a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Western Ontario, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM from the London School of Economics.
Patricia is a senior partner of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP where she practices corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. She is recognized as one of Canada’s leading experts on M&A, shareholder activism and cross-border corporate finance. Patricia serves on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Securities Commission, is a past member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s CEO Advisory Council, past Chair of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission, a former legal advisor to the Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission and a past Chair of the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association – Ontario. She has also served on an advisory committee to the Senate Banking Committee on the subject of a federal securities commission.