Adam Howard Hirsh

Adam practices complex, high-stakes commercial and corporate litigation for both Canadian and global companies. His expertise is broad ranging, covering commercial disputes and private arbitration, class action defence (with a focus on competition, consumer protection and product liability claims), tax disputes and insolvency matters.

Adam is a highly versatile litigator and a quick study. He masters the finer details of his clients’ businesses and uses that knowledge to win their cases on their terms, be it at trial or by way of carefully crafted settlement. Companies value Adam’s candor, financial acuity, real-time responsiveness, strategic counsel and tireless drive to accomplish their litigation goals.

Adam is recognized as a leading commercial litigation and class action defence lawyer in Chambers, Lexpert, Benchmark Litigation and Best Lawyers (Canada). He is the co-author of the chapter on business and commercial litigation in Canada in the highly regarded treatise Business and Commercial Litigation in the Federal Courts, 5th Ed. (Thomson Reuters).

Following a series of high-profile amendments aimed at strengthening Canada’s competition law regime culminating in royal assent for Bill C-59 on...

A new framework for disclosure of partial settlements has been adopted which affords courts greater discretion to fashion an appropriate remedy.

The decision marks a crucial moment for private competition law enforcement in Canada.