Steven H. Leitl
Steve's practice covers a broad range of commercial litigation matters, including securities litigation, class actions, corporate insolvency and restructuring.
Steve has conducted proceedings in the courts of Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba and Canada (Federal Court) and appeals in the Ontario Court of Appeal and Alberta Court of Appeal. Steve has conducted commercial arbitrations and proceedings before the Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba Securities Commissions.
Steve is the Chair of the Class Action Practice Group.
Steve is a regular speaker and writer on issues pertaining to securities litigation, insolvency and class actions.
- Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B., 1986
- Ontario, 1988
- Alberta, 1997
- Member, Alberta Arbitration & Mediation Society
- Member, Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario)
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association (insolvency, alternative dispute resolution, and civil litigation subsections),
- Member, Ontario Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Board of Editors, Federated Press, Class Actions Quarterly Publication
- Speaker, 2008 Insight Conference "Shareholder Rights, Disputes and Remedies"
- Speaker, 2008 Insight Conference "Legal update on Poison Pills in Canada"
- Speaker, 2008 Federated Press Conference, "Managing Class Actions"
- Quoted in The Financial Post, March 2008
- Secondary Market Liability of Directors and Officers, February 2008
- Alberta's Class Action Cost Regime, April 2007
- Chair, 2006 Conference in Securities Litigation
- Speaker, 2005 IECA Conference
- Speaker, 2005 Insight Conference on Insolvency Law
- Intersection Between ISDA® Agreements and Recent Bankruptcy Decisions in the U.S. and Canada
- Clash Actions article, courtesy of National, the magazine of the Canadian Bar Association, May 2005
- Suspension of Limitation Periods In Class Proceedings: Plaintiffs Beware
- Certification of Class Actions in Alberta
- Canadian Energy Contracts: The Impact of Blue Range, Enron and NESI, 2004
- National Class Actions - The Canadian Conundrum
- Class Actions - 03/2002 - Securities Class Actions - Investor Power on the Rise?
- A Brief Consideration of the Relationship Between Directors' Fiduciary Duties and the Oppression Remedy, 2001
- New Developments Re: Force Majeure Clauses, 2001
- The Decision in Western Canadian Shopping Centres v. Dutton: "Filling the Void" or Nudging the Legislature?
- Certification of Class Actions: The Alberta Perspective
- Defending Class Actions in Multiple Jurisdictions: The Conundrum of the National Class
- Confidential Information and Joint Ventures, 2001
- Counsel to corporations in various ongoing dissenting shareholder fair value proceedings
- Counsel to various shareholders in Alberta proceedings regarding PetroKazakhstan
- Counsel to successful applicant recent cease-trading of "poison pill"
- Counsel to successful respondent in recent oppression proceeding
- Counsel to Air Canada ad hoc Unsecured Creditors' Committee
- Member of Defence Counsel Committee in Pauli class action
- Acted on behalf of the Court appointed Receiver-Manager of a foreign immigrant investment fund
- Acted on behalf of the Court appointed Receiver-Manager of a commercial condominium development
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2007
- Class Action Litigation
- Board Member, Child and Youth Friendly Calgary
- Fundraiser, Child and Youth Friendly Calgary and Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
- Organizer, Macleod Dixon LLP, Ride for Kids
- Former Co Chair, Macleod Dixon LLP United Way Campaign, 2001 - 2002 (period).
