Kiran Patel, Toronto

About Kiran

Kiran has a broad commercial litigation practice with a focus on arbitration, restructuring, construction and complex corporate/commercial disputes. He has been involved in a variety of cases, including litigation relating to major construction projects, technology, shareholder disputes, public procurement processes, performance management, supply contracts, transportation, leasing, competition and securities class actions.

Kiran has represented clients before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, administrative tribunals, and both domestic and international commercial arbitration panels.

Before joining Blakes, Kiran spent three years as a management consultant at a global consulting firm, where he provided strategic advice to clients in a variety of industries. He uses his commercial experience to deliver practical and timely advice that is aligned with clients’ overall legal and business objectives.

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Kiran's representative matters include representing:

A major telecommunications company in several commercial arbitration proceedings involving wireless technology and infrastructure
The pension plan administrator of the Sears Canada Inc. Registered Retirement Plan in Sears Canada’s liquidation under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA)
United States Steel Corporation in successfully asserting its US$2-billion claim against U.S. Steel Canada in which the court provided a fundamentally revised test for the distinction between debt and equity in an insolvency proceeding under the CCAAA major transportation company in multiple final-offer arbitration proceedings under the Canada Transportation Act
A group of U.S. funds in successfully dismissing a C$1.3-billion action relating to the sale and acquisition of a major telecommunications company
A technology company, as its lead counsel, in a dispute relating to the design, development and construction of a solar farm
A manufacturer of construction equipment involved in a dispute relating to performance management and dealer transition
A power generation company involved in a construction dispute relating to the engineering, procurement and construction of a biomass conversion project
Health-care providers in litigation relating to procurement, supplier management and contractual termination, including an application for judicial review and injunction proceedings
A multinational technology company in a class action involving the Sale of Goods Act and privacy claims relating to preloaded software
Celestica Inc. in its successful appeal before the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold the limitation period for bringing a statutory secondary-market securities class action
Visa Canada Corporation in a major resale price maintenance hearing before the Competition Tribunal of Canada
A large global mining client in an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration involving the performance and termination of international supply agreements
A manufacturer of mobile data terminals, as its lead trial and appellate counsel, in an action against one of its suppliers relating to defective components
The administrator of a public pension plan in a commercial leasing dispute involving the interpretation of a retail lease at a major shopping centre
A media company in a shareholder dispute involving its acquisition of an online business
An online media company, as its lead counsel, in a proceeding before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario relating to the enforcement of online user forum rules
An investment banking boutique and one of its principals in a successful motion to stay proceedings based on jurisdictional grounds