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Biography

Andrew is a partner at ALG. He has a broad commercial litigation practice that includes corporate disputes, shareholder and oppression issues, regulatory proceedings, gaming litigation, and insolvency litigation.

Andrew has significant courtroom experience. He conducted dozens of trials as a criminal prosecutor. He has expertise in fraud, white-collar/corporate crime, and injunctions. General counsel of large institutions rely on Andrew to handle their most sensitive crises.

Andrew is ranked by Chambers for Commercial Litigation and White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, Lexpert for Corporate Commercial Litigation, is named by Benchmark Litigation as a Future Star, and is included in Benchmark's “40 & Under List”. He was awarded Prosecutor of the Year by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. Andrew teaches trial advocacy at Osgoode’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop. He was elected to the Ontario Bar Association’s Civil Litigation executive and was past member of The Advocates’ Society Commercial Litigation Practice Group.

Andrew clerked for the judges of the Ontario Superior Court, focusing on the Commercial List and class actions. He earned his law degree and an M. A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Notable Cases As Counsel

Notable Media Publications

Notable Cases As Intervener for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association

Notable Cases As Intervener for the Canadian Conference for the Arts

Notable Cases and Speaking Roles

“Deep Dive into Urgent Injunctions”, Ontario Bar Association, Panelist 2025

“Effective Strategies for Case Conferences”, Ontario Bar Association, Program Chair 2025

"Avoiding Pitfalls in Waiver of Privilege", Ontario Bar Association, Panelist 2024

"Divine Discoveries: Building a Great Case", Ontario Bar Association, Panelist 2024

Osgoode Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, Instructor 2023

"Essential Guide to Appellate Advocacy”, Ontario Bar Association, Panelist 2023

“Top Cases in Commercial Litigation,” The Advocates Society, Panelist 2023

“Shareholder Disputes: What Litigators Need to Know”, Law Society of Ontario, Panelist 2021

“Mills in Murder”, Criminal Law Quarterly, 2021 C.L.Q. 89, Author 2021

International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators Training Conference, Speaker 2020

Crown Attorney Fraud Course, Ministry of the Attorney General, Speaker 2019

Osgoode Professional LLM, Evidence Course, Guest Lecturer 2019

Notable Cases As Intervener for The Advocates' Society

Notable Cases As Intervener for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Notable Cases As Intervener for the Criminal Lawyers' Association

Awards and testimonials

Community involvement

Andrew has strong legal and interpersonal skills, and it is apparent that he is advocating with his clients' best interests in mind.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is terrific and shows an attitude to defence that is very impressive for a young lawyer.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is a very bright attorney with tremendous awareness of the law and a strong ability to represent his clients in incredibly important matters.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is experienced as both a commercial litigator and Crown prosecutor, which gives him a really interesting perspective on the kinds of litigation we have worked on together.

Chambers and Partners

Apart from being smart, Andrew is practical-minded and solution-oriented.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is a brilliant and hard-working lawyer whose prosecutorial experience brings courtroom savvy to bear for his commercial clients.

Chambers and Partners

He handles extremely complicated matters.

Chambers and Partners

Apart from being smart, Andrew is practical-minded and solution-oriented.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is a very competent, thoughtful and able lawyer.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is very impressive - super smart and very strategic.

Chambers and Partners

He is an impressive lawyer.

Chambers and Partners

Andrew is absolutely excellent.

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