Andrew Winton is a partner at Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP, one of Canada’s leading commercial litigation firms. Andrew’s practice includes employment law, insolvency and restructuring, corporate governance, shareholder and oppression remedy disputes, and contract litigation. Andrew is experienced counsel in arbitrations of business disputes and appears regularly before the Ontario courts, including the Toronto Commercial List and the Court of Appeal.

Andrew has acted as counsel in many significant proceedings, including one of the few cases where a Plan of Arrangement was not accepted for filing in a CCAA proceeding (Re Target Canada), the successful pursuit of an interlocutory injunction in a trade-mark action (Sleep Country Canada v Sears Canada) and a defamation action (Fortress Real Developments Inc. v Franklin), and a leading appellate decision concerning when a new cause of action has been pleaded in an amended statement of claim (Farmers Oil and Gas v Ministry of Natural Resources).

While studying at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Andrew won several awards, including for top overall ranking in first year and excellence in legal writing. He then clerked for Chief Justice McMurtry and Justices Weiler, Blair and LaForme of the Court of Appeal for Ontario before joining Lax O’Sullivan in 2007.

Andrew regularly presents at continuing legal education seminars at The Advocates’ Society and the Law Society of Ontario. He provides pro bono services to Furniture Bank, a Toronto charity that helps homeless people transition to permanent housing and is a past member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Civil Litigation and Insolvency Law Executives.