Sajjad Nematollahi

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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:

• 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.

Harvard Law School; McGill Law School; Shahid Beheshti University Faculty of Law

Auditors Must Properly Audit Their Client Companies and Would be Legally Liable if they Fail to do so, Supreme Court of Canada Holds

The (Un?!-)Enforceability of Forum Selection Clauses in Adhesion Consumer Contracts

Canada’s Anti-Spam Laws Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Compensation for Improper Electronic Activities

Canadian Courts’ Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants in Cases Arising From E-Commerce Relations

Legal Proceedings against Persons and Businesses outside of Ontario

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”

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)

English; Farsi

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.

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.