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Gary S. Rosen

Gary S. Rosen

Partner
  • Montreal 514 846.2229
     
grosen@heenan.ca
 
 
    

Gary S. Rosen focuses his practice on labour and employment law. He also is very experienced in commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on shareholder disputes as well as banking, bankruptcy and insolvency litigation. He has appeared before all levels of Québec civil courts as well as various administrative tribunals. Mr. Rosen served as Chair of the firm’s national Partnership Admission Committee from 2007 to 2011 and as Chair of the Labour and Employment Law group for the province of Quebec from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Rosen was a member of the firm’s National Management Committee from 2008 to 2012 and is currently a member of the firm’s Partnership Compensation Committee.

In 1982, Mr. Rosen received the James McGill Award from McGill University in recognition of his academic achievements as an undergraduate in the History Department of the Faculty of Arts. In 1987, Mr. Rosen received the Brian Dickson Award awarded by the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law for the highest standing in the National Program.

Mr. Rosen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lord Reading Law Society and the Hillsdale Golf and Country Club.

Mr. Rosen was recognized as one of Canada’s leading lawyers in the area of labour and employment law in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada (Woodward/White).

Gary S. Rosen joined Heenan Blaikie in 1996 and became a partner with the firm in 1998.

Education

  • LL.L., University of Ottawa, 1987
  • LL.B., University of Ottawa, 1986

Professional Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • Barreau du Québec
  • Canadian Bar Association

Lead counsel for Bell Canada, leading the Company’s defence before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against the Communication Energy Paperworkers (CEP) and Femmes Action equal pay complaints in hearings that commenced in April 2001 and which were settled in June 2006 following a complex multiparty mediation in which Mr. Rosen was a central participant. He was also a central figure in the litigation proceedings relating to the settlement reached in 2002 between the Company and the Canadian Telephone Employees Association (CTEA) of the CTEA’s equal pay complaints.

Legal counsel for the National Hockey League and the Club de Hockey Canadien Inc. in the certification application filed by the National Hockey League Players Association in April 2005 seeking to declare a separate bargaining unit for the players of the Montreal Canadiens and to certify the Club de Hockey Canadien Inc.

Lead counsel for the rock group Metallica in a class action brought in the early 1990s by disgruntled ticket holders against Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Donald K. Donald Productions and the Olympic Stadium seeking reimbursement of the ticket price and additional damages further to the cancellation of a rock concert and subsequent riot.

Legal counsel for Coopers & Lybrand in ongoing litigation resulting from the collapse of Castor Holdings Ltd., presently the most important ongoing Canadian case involving the liability of auditors.

 

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