Lawyer Profile
David Outerbridge
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Across industries and disputes, David is an accomplished litigator, providing clients with strategic thinking, strong advocacy, and skilled management of complex engagements.
David has significant experience both as a trial lawyer and as appellate counsel, with a focus on litigation and arbitration in the energy, infrastructure, construction and procurement sectors, insurance law, product liability claims, indigenous law, class actions, environmental claims and commercial disputes. He acts for project developers and owners, lenders, contractors, design professionals, regulators and insurers in all manner of construction disputes, as well as for a wide range of clients in class actions, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, public authorities and schools. In his insurance practice, David advises and represents a wide range of industry participants, in matters involving, among other things, policy interpretation, regulatory compliance, corporate and commercial transactions, and reinsurance.
In addition to his commercial disputes practice, David has substantial experience in public law, criminal and constitutional litigation. He has appeared as lead counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, all levels of court in Ontario, the courts of five other provinces, in commercial arbitrations, before public inquiries and before various administrative tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal.
Torys is acting as counsel to Ontario First Nations (2008) LP in arbitration and appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal and Ontario Superior Court concerning breaches in the allotment of non-gaming revenue under the 2008 Gaming Revenue Sharing and Financial Agreement with the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Tarion Warranty Corporation, Ontario's regulator of new home construction, in trial-level, appellate and administrative proceedings involving construction and regulatory disputes
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in an intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in a constitutional challenge of An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families
Industrial Alliance in successfully resisting an appeal before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal for a declaration that hedge fund investors were entitled to deposit and earn guaranteed interest rates on unlimited amounts in universal life side accounts
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in a claim against the Government of Manitoba relating to the equitable sharing of gaming revenues in the province
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2000 (ON)