Sajjad Nematollahi
Associate - Class Actions
Contact SajjadSajjad represents investors in securities class actions and complex commercial litigation.
Education
Harvard Law School
McGill Law School
Shahid Beheshti University Faculty of Law
About
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Sajjad Nematollahi is an associate lawyer at the Class Actions Department of Siskinds LLP.
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Sajjad’s practise is focused on securities and complex commercial litigation and class proceedings. Sajjad has and continues to represent the class plaintiffs before the Courts of Ontario, Alberta and Québec in several high-profile securities, privacy breach and consumer class proceedings, including:
- Marriott Privacy Breach;
- Valeant Pharmaceuticals Securities Litigation;
- Facebook Privacy Breach Class Action;
- BMO and Simplii Financial Privacy Breach;
- Poseidon Concepts Securities Litigation and Insolvency Proceedings;
- Sino-Forest Securities Litigation and Insolvency Proceedings;
- BlackBerry Limited Securities Litigation;
- Canadian Solar Securities Litigation;
- Imperial Metals Securities Litigation; and
- easyhome Securities Litigation.
Sajjad holds Master of Laws degrees from Harvard Law School (2010) and McGill University, Faculty of Law (2009). While at Harvard, Sajjad studied corporate and securities laws, and researched Canadian and United States laws on the issue of directors’ fiduciary duties in the context of complex transactions. At McGill, Sajjad studied international trade and dispute resolution.
Sajjad is an active member of the Iranian-Canadian community. While at law school, Sajjad was a member of the Harvard Law School Student Government, and a councilor at McGill’s Post-Graduate Students’ Society.
Sajjad is admitted to practise of law and is a member of the Bar in Ontario and New York State, and speaks English and Farsi.
Other Languages
Farsi
Memberships and Associations
Law Society of Ontario, Member
Ontario Bar Association, Member
Canadian Bar Association, Member
New York State Bar Association, Member
American Bar Association, Member
Iranian Legal Professionals in Ontario, Member
Advocates' Society, Member
Awards and Recognition
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.
Publications and Speaking
- Speaker, Ontario Bar Association Privacy Law Summit 2019, April 3, 2019, Toronto, Ontario – “What You Need to Know About Privacy Case Law and Litigation (Class Actions)”
- Sajjad Nematollahi was interviewed by the Toronto Star in relation to the Canadian privacy breach class action against Facebook and Facebook Canada
- Sajjad Nematollahi was interviewed for an article in MobileSyrup regarding the privacy breach class action against Facebook and Facebook Canada
- Speaker, Advocates’ Society Seventh Annual Securities Symposium, September 11, 2017, Toronto, Ontario – “Multi-jurisdictional Securities Litigation, Procedural Challenges and Proposed Solutions”
In the News
- https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/valeant-pharmaceuticals-international-inc-securities-class-action-680358143.html
- https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/siskinds-llp-announces-the-filing-of-privacy-breach-class-action-against-facebook-and-facebook-canada-681660031.html
- https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/plaintiffs-reach-up-to-366-million-global-settlement-in-poseidon-concepts-securities-litigation-680529721.html
- 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.