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Alistair Crawley is a founding partner of Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP and is one of Canada’s leading securities and corporate commercial litigation lawyers. Alistair’s practice includes all aspects of litigation and advice involving the capital markets and the securities industry, including investigations and enforcement hearings, contested corporate transactions and investment loss claims.

Alistair has argued some of Canada’s most significant securities law cases, including the leading case on timely disclosure in the context of merger and acquisition transactions. He has extensive experience as defence counsel in regulatory and quasi criminal investigations concerning public disclosure, registration, insider trading, fraud, and other forms of alleged market malfeasance.

Alistair has paired his securities regulatory expertise with an active corporate litigation practice involving contested corporate transactions and shareholder meetings, stakeholder disputes in both public and private corporations, corporate governance and directors’ and officers’ liability. Alistair’s commercial litigation expertise includes class actions, contract disputes, professional negligence, tort and breach of fiduciary duty claims and complex insurance coverage disputes.

Awards & Recognition

Alistair is recognized by Lexpert as one of the Top 500 Lawyers in Canada and has been featured in the Lexpert Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Litigation Lawyers. He has also been recognized as a leader in the field of securities litigation by Chambers Canada and as a leading securities and corporate commercial litigation lawyer by both Benchmark Canada and Best Lawyers in Canada. In 2024, Alistair was named Lawyer of the Year for Securities Law in Toronto by Best Lawyers. Alistair is also a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.

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Speaking Engagements & Publications

Lecturer, “Class Actions: Getting Leave and the Role of the Judge as Gatekeeper”, Osgoode Hall Law School LLM Securities Law Program, Securities Litigation and Enforcement Course, September 15, 2023

Moderator, “Significant Recent Securities Regulatory Enforcement Decisions”, 2023 Securities Litigation Conference, June 14, 2023

Speaker, Forum for Senior Securities Practitioners, June 28, 2022

Speaker, “Current Issues in Securities Class Actions”, for the Ontario Bar Assocation Class Actions Law Program, January 18, 2022

Speaker and Author, “Court Challenges to Professional Discipline Decisions”, for the Short Course in Prosecuting and Defending Professional Discipline Cases, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, April 24, 2019

Author, “Last Call for Relevant Appeals from the OSC”, May 16, 2018

Guest Lecturer, “Key Governing Bodies & Their Processes”, Intensive Training: Securities Law, Osgoode Hall Law School Investor Protection Clinic, September 11, 2017

Author, “Investment watchdogs have been asking for far too much power — and Ottawa just gave it to them”, Financial Post, May 12, 2017

Speaker and Author, “Preparing for the Hearing – Part 2:  Reasonable Apprehension of Bias” for the Short Course in Prosecuting and Defending Professional Discipline Cases, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, January 30, 2015

Co-Author, “Ontario Securities Commission Reviews: An Exercise in Futility or a Road out of the Quagmire?”, Private Capital Markets Association of Canada Market Insights Issue, published Fall 2014