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MITCHELL FOURNIE Associate

Direct: 416.217.0887
Fax: 416.217.0220
Email: MFournie@cmblaw.ca
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Mitchell Fournie is a litigator with a focus on corporate and commercial disputes. He has experience acting for both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of business disputes, including breach of contract claims, shareholder oppression claims, professional negligence, employment and wrongful dismissal, fraud, defamation, investment loss, and insurance litigation. Mitchell has represented clients in trials and appeals at all levels of court in Ontario, the trial courts of Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador, several administrative tribunals, and in private arbitration.

In addition to his civil litigation practice, Mitchell is experienced representing individuals and companies facing investigation and enforcement proceedings before the Ontario Securities Commissions (now Capital Markets Tribunal), the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO, formerly, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Mutual Fund Dealers Association), as well as the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA). Mitchell’s insight into the regulatory landscape of the wealth management industry allows him to provide practical, business-focused advice for those facing investigations and prosecutions.

Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Mitchell articled at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, where he clerked for the judges of the civil, class actions, and commercial list, as well as the family and criminal courts.

Speaking Engagements & Publications

Co-Author with Justice Todd A. Archibald and Roger B. Campbell, "Discovery as a Forum for Persuasive Advocacy" - Chapter 8 in Litigation and Administrative Advocacy: The Art and Science of Persuasion, ed. Todd Archibald, LexisNexis Canada, 2023

Managing Risk in M&A: Material Adverse Change and Material Adverse Effect Clauses, M&A Risk Advisor, Janary 5, 2023

Co-Author with Justice Todd A. Archibald and Roger Campbell, "Discovery as a Forum for Persuasive Advocacy: Art and Science of Persuasion - Chapter IX" Annual Review of Civil Litigation, Toronto: Thomson Reuters Canada, 2019, reproduced by permission of Thomson Reuters Canada Limited

Author, "Brophy v. Harrison: A Reminder of the Costs Consequences for Taking a ‘Hard-ball’ Approach to Litigation", August 20, 2019

Co-Author with Todd A. Archibald, Connie Reeve, and Geetha Philipupillai, "A review of key 2017 employment cases" published as part of Civil Appeals: the Year in Review, Law Society of Upper Canada Continuing Professional Development, Toronto, Ontario, 2017

Contact

Direct: 416.217.0887
Fax: 416.217.0220
Email: MFournie@cmblaw.ca
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Education

Called to the Bar – 2018

J.D., University of Windsor - 2017

M.A., Memorial University of Newfoundland - 2014

B.A., University of Guelph - 2010

Associations

Member of the Advocates’ Society