Biographical notes for Lyndon Barnes

Contributing Editor, Corporate Litigation (CorpLit) 2000–

Speaker, "Priorities in Insolvency Litigation: When Judges Make the Rules" Financial Litigation Session, Financial Executives Summit, Toronto, December 6-7, 1995

Born 17 July 1947

Educated York University B.A. 1968, Osgoode Hall Law School LL.B. 1971

Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 1977–

Associate with present firm 1973-77

Called to the Bar of Ontario 1973

Director, Advocates' Society

Member, Canadian Bar Association (Civil Litigation Subsection), International Bar Association, American Bar Association (Civil Litigation Section), American Trial Lawyers' Association, Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, County of York Law Association, International Bar Association (Business Law Section)

Past Vice-Chair, Committee S – Consumer Affairs, Product Liability Committee of the Business Law Section of the International Bar Association

Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program; Civil Procedure Bar Admission Program

Speaker, numerous continuing legal education programs

Facilitator, in-house seminars on such issues as loss prevention, alternative dispute resolution and insolvency matters

Lyndon Barnes is a senior partner in the Litigation Department at Osler, Hoskin && Harcourt LLP. He has extensive experience in all types of commercial disputes; class actions; shareholder and corporate disputes; banking and insolvency matters. He has been involved in a number of significant restructurings under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act including acting for lenders in Olympia & York; lenders in restructuring Algoma Steel; counsel to Bramalea Inc. and to Cadillac Fairview Inc. in their successful restructurings. Mr. Barnes has also acted as counsel to the Trustee in the Confederation Treasury Services Limited bankruptcy and as counsel to the Province of Ontario in the restructuring of Skydome Corporation, also acted for The T. Eaton Company in a successful restructuring in 1996 and it is recent liquidation plan of arrangement. Is currently involved in several major class actions including the recent attempt to enjoin the British American Tobacco transaction with Imasco Limited.