Lawyer Profile
Jeff W. Galway
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Jeff is a senior trial and appellate counsel with a national practice focusing on corporate/commercial, securities, constitutional, competition and pension law matters. A significant aspect of Jeff's practice involves defending class actions. He also regularly acts as counsel in regulatory and administrative/regulatory proceedings.
Jeff has appeared as counsel before courts in five Canadian provinces as well as before the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also appeared before many administrative tribunals, including the Financial Services Tribunal, the Ontario Securities Commission and the Competition Tribunal.
In a recent survey of in-house counsel conducted by Acritas, legal research experts, one of Jeff's clients noted: "He does all of our high-value litigation, and he's just an exceptional litigation lawyer. He's an incredibly sound lawyer with legal skills and with practical advice." Other client comments about Jeff have included: "He's done extremely significant litigation for us. Just top-notch for decades" and "very knowledgeable about our business and a strong commercial litigator. Very practical and very thoughtful, which is what you want in a litigator."
Acted for Marine Atlantic Inc. in connection with a judicial review application commenced in the Federal Court of Canada by Oceanex Inc. naming Marine Atlantic and the federal Minister of Transport as respondents. Oceanex challenged the rates established for commercial vehicles carried on Marine Atlantic's ferries between the provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador
Acted for Labatt Brewing Company Limited in defending claims asserted for approximately C$1.4-billion in anti-trust class action proceedings in the Ontario Supreme Court brought against the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Brewers Retail Inc., Labatt and two other major brewers. In March 2018, the Ontario Superior Court granted summary judgment dismissing the plaintiffs' claims against all of the defendants. The motions judge's dismissal of the action was subsequently upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal
Acted as co-counsel for United States Steel Corporation (USS) in connection with a recently released decision of the Ontario Superior Court confirming claims by USS in the aggregate amount of over C$2-billion in the ongoing insolvency proceeding of U.S. Steel Canada Inc.
Acted for Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) in a case before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice where the applicant challenged the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Ontario Insurance Act that limit the amount of lost income that can be recovered before trial by a person injured in an automobile accident along with amendments to the Insurance Act granting exclusive jurisdiction to the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal to adjudicate all disputes relating to statutory no-fault benefits
Acted as co-counsel to Canadian Western Bank before the Supreme Court of Canada (Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta). Case raised division of powers, interjurisdictional immunity and paramountcy issues
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1988 (ON)