Serge Kalloghlian

Serge Kalloghlian is a lawyer in the Toronto office of Siskinds LLP with a focus on class proceedings. Serge has acted for plaintiffs in a wide range of matters including product liability, medical device, human rights, and securities class actions. He has appeared as counsel at all levels on Ontario’s Courts, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada.

Serge’s practice is currently focused on representing investors in securities class actions and other shareholder rights litigation. Prior to joining Siskinds, Serge completed his articles in the Toronto office of a national full-service firm, and later worked as an associate at a class action boutique. Serge was counsel to the class in the prosecution and settlement of St. John’s v Steers, an action alleging breaches of fiduciary duties and Human Rights Code violations. Serge is part of the counsel team prosecuting the Labourers v Sino-Forest class action, in which a record-setting settlement of $117 million was secured with one of Sino-Forest’s auditors. He is also counsel in Silver v Imax, and has been involved in precedent-setting decisions defining the application of limitation periods under the Securities Act, as well as the manner in which parallel cross-border class actions may be settled.

Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto 2004 and LLB from Queen’s University 2007

Carriage Motions in Securities Class Actions: Restoring the Primacy of the “Primary Consideration”

Speaker, Advocates’ Society Third Annual Securities Symposium, September 12, 2013 – “Timminco and the Part XXIII.1 Limitation Period”

Co-Author “Recent Developments in Securities Class Actions and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act”,  Presented at the 10th National Symposium on Class Actions (Osgoode Hall) April 2013

Co-Author “Carriage Motions in Securities Class Actions:Restoring the Primacy of the “Primary Consideration”” June 2012

August 2014, Siskinds LLP named again as the top-ranked Canadian firm in the “SCAS 50.” Siskinds ranked 16th overall in the a global ranking of the world’s 50 leading securities class action law firms, the highest ranking ever attained by a Canadian firm. It is compiled annually by Securities Class Action Services, a unit of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Siskinds was the first Canadian firm to rank in the top 50 and has been the top Canadian firm each year since 2010.

August 6, 2014 /CNW/ – Siskinds LLP, one of Canada’s leading class action law firms, is pleased to announce that it has been named again as the top-ranked Canadian firm in the “SCAS 50.” Siskinds ranked 16th overall in the a global ranking of the world’s 50 leading securities class action law firms, the highest ranking ever attained by a Canadian firm. It is compiled annually by Securities Class Action Services, a unit of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Siskinds was the first Canadian firm to rank in the top 50 and has been the top Canadian firm each year since 2010.