Jennifer Teskey
Partner
Jennifer Teskey practises corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on class actions, product liability, securities and regulatory matters. She has appeared before all levels of Ontario courts. Clients represented by Ms. Teskey include pharmaceutical, financial services, manufacturing, transportation, technology and energy companies.
Year of call
Ontario 2003
Law school
LL.B., University of Ottawa, 2002
Education
B.A. (Hons.), Queen's University, 1999
Selected client work
Ms. Teskey has acted as counsel for the following clients:
- The Dow Chemical Company in respect of mass tort class actions
- Toronto Hydro in respect of late payment penalties class actions
- Nortel Networks Corporation in defending and settling securities-related class actions brought against Nortel in respect of the restatement of its financial results
- BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., a lead underwriter, in a securities class action
- Hills Pet Nutrition Inc. in respect of a product liability class action
- A national transportation company in relation to various personal injury matters
- Energy industry participants in various appellant proceedings
- A large provincial accounting organization in a complex standard review and regulatory compliance case
- A Hong Kong financial services company in a fraud/conversion action against a former employee
Memberships and activities
- Canadian Bar Association
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- The Advocates’ Society