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Shaan helps financial institutions, companies and their directors and officers successfully navigate high-stakes disputes and investigations by delivering sharp analysis, relentless focus on outcomes and calm execution under pressure.

Overview

Shaan Tolani partners with a wide range of stakeholders navigating high-pressure disputes and investigations to protect their interests and achieve practical results, efficiently and strategically.

Shaan's practice centres on shareholder and other commercial disputes, investigations, financial crime and asset recovery. He advises clients on a range of complex matters and comfortably handles cross-border disputes requiring coordination across multiple jurisdictions. He regularly collaborates with colleagues across Bennett Jones's national platform and works alongside law firms in other jurisdictions, insolvency professionals, forensic accountants and external investigators. Coupled with his tech-forward practice, Shaan is effective when managing complex and multi-jurisdictional matters.

Shaan brings substantial courtroom and hearing experience to every engagement. He has conducted lengthy trials and merits hearings, argued contested motions for injunctive and other relief, appeared on appeals and represented clients in regulatory proceedings before securities tribunals. He also advises clients on internal investigations, regulatory demands from securities regulators (such as the OSC and BCSC) and asset recovery efforts, providing comprehensive support from initial assessment through resolution.

Shaan's approach and experience enable him to deliver practical, results-oriented advice tailored to each client's objectives.

Client Work

NRStor Incorporated in a dispute over earn-out entitlements following NRStor’s acquisition of significant energy projects
Shanghai Lianyin Investment in the enforcement of its $233-million CIETAC arbitral award in Ontario to recover assets potentially held in trust for the award debtor
MNP Corporate Finance in its efforts to recover a multimillion-dollar success fee related to facilitating financing for a former client, leading to a trial on whether arrangement facilitated should be considered debt financing or a purchase and sale transaction
The joint liquidators of Stanford International Bank in the trial and appeal for asset recovery proceedings related to Stanford International Bank’s $5.5-billion collapse resulting from the world’s second-largest Ponzi scheme
The CFO of CannTrust Holdings in a securities class action alleging misrepresentations related to the company's licenses to cultivate cannabis, as well as related proceedings
Luxtona Limited, an affiliate of Yukos Oil, in proceedings in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by the Russian Federation for the set-aside of an interim award related to the Energy Charter Treaty arbitration between Luxtona and Russia

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Wilfrid Laurier University, BBA (Hons., Finance), 2015, with distinction
  • University of Toronto, JD, 2019

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2020