Ryan Alexander Morris

Ryan is a trusted advisor and advocate for corporations, boards, financial institutions and individuals on their most complex and contentious disputes. Ryan has had significant experience and success defending securities class actions (often with parallel actions in the U.S.), securities transactional disputes and securities regulatory investigations and proceedings. He has successfully litigated contested transactions, takeover bids, proxy contests, poison pills and statutory plan-of-arrangement proceedings.

These mandates often involve oppression and derivative claims, dissent and fair value proceedings, directors' and officers' liability advice, governance issues and using regulatory and legal processes creatively to solve difficult problems. Ryan is regularly sought out as defence counsel on securities class actions, particularly those related to financial products, including exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, syndicated mortgages and cryptocurrency. He has represented clients in investigations and proceedings before the securities commissions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization and various exchanges.

Successfully defending The Stars Group Inc. in an application to prevent the conversion of its convertible preferred shares to common shares

Counsel to Instacart in connection with its acquisition of Unata Inc., provider of digital solutions to grocers

Counsel to Washington Companies in connection with its C$1.5-billion acquisition of Dominion Diamond Corporation

Acting for an English coverholder and syndicate of Lloyd's underwriters in staying a Canadian action against them in favour of arbitration in London, England under LCIA Rules