LAWYERS

Dana Carson is an experienced litigator who represents individual and corporate clients in complex commercial and securities litigation matters. Her practice includes regulatory investigations and proceedings, shareholder and oppression disputes, D&O liability matters, investment loss claims, M&A litigation, professional negligence claims, fraud actions and employment disputes.

Dana litigates civil and regulatory matters before the courts, arbitrators, provincial securities regulators and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization. Dana’s practice also includes internal investigations into a variety of matters for corporations and their boards of directors and special committees, including securities law issues, trading and compliance issues, whistleblower complaints and workplace allegations. 

Prior to joining Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP in 2018, Dana was a litigator at a leading global law firm in Toronto. In addition to her litigation practice, Dana is the firm’s Director of Student Programs.

Awards & Recognition

Dana has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation Canada as one of the top litigation lawyers aged 40 & Under in Canada. She has been ranked as an Up and Coming securities litigator by Chambers Canada and by Best Lawyers in the category of Ones to Watch.

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Speaking Engagements & Publications

Co-Author, NorthWest Copper Corp.: The Free Flow of Information and Opinion Among Shareholders May Trump Disclosure of Joint Action by Dissident Shareholders, January 16, 2024

Co-Author, No Deal: Court of Appeal Rules on Buy-Sell “Gone Wrong”, December 18, 2023

Co-Author, Oppression Remedy: Business Realities, Not Just “Narrow Legalities”, October 25, 2023

Co-Author, Court of Appeal for Ontario: No “Option” for Management to Act Oppressively, October 4, 2023

Moderator, “A Conversation about the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)”, Securities Litigation Conference, June 14, 2023

Speaker, “Prosecuting and Defending Professional Discipline Cases 2023”, Osgoode Hall Professional Development Program

Co-Author, “Immediate” Obligation to Disclose Settlement Agreements “Means Exactly What It Says”, October 17, 2022

Author, “Auditors Owed No Duty of Care to “Client’s Clients” in Lavender”, September 18, 2018

Co-Author, “ONCA: Miller and Cheng “Ought Reasonably to Have Known Better”, January 31, 2018