Fahad Siddiqui
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Fahad Siddiqui advises clients on bet-the-company litigation, regulation and reputational problems.
Chambers ranks him as an “Up and Coming” commercial litigator, the Canadian Lexpert Directory lists him as a “Leading Lawyer to Watch” in regulatory and public law, and he has been recognized as a “Leading Lawyer Under 40.” Clients describe him as "an up-and-coming litigation star" who "analyses all potential avenues and options" and provides "excellent leadership in managing" challenging files (Chambers Canada Guide, 2025).
Fahad has successfully brought and defended cases involving contested M&A transactions, shareholder claims, proxy contests, board disputes, contract claims, estate disputes, defamation claims and challenges to legislation and regulatory decisions. He also provides strategic guidance to public and private companies in North America, Europe and Asia on Canadian regulation, including advising on legislative consultations and testimony before Parliament.
Fahad previously served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the High Court of Delhi. He then practised in New York City at a leading international firm.
Fahad maintains an active pro bono practice. He has served on the boards of and represented public interest organizations, including the Innocence Network, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers and the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario.
Professional experience
-Alle schließenJ.D., Osgoode Hall Law School, 2013
M.A., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2009
B.A., Trinity College, University of Toronto, 2007
- Ontario 2014
Fahad has acted in the following matters:
- Advises NASDAQ-, NYSE-, FTSE- and TSX-listed companies on new Canadian legislation and regulations, including under the Patent Act, Competition Act and Online Streaming Act
- Part of the team that obtained order striking down new federal regulations with estimated impact of several billion dollars (2022 FCA 210)
- Counsel in multiple disputes for control of public and non-public companies and assets
- Defended $3-billion transaction for sale of shares in Highway 407 (2019 ONSC 4423)
- Defeated claim seeking $120 million in damages for breach of a technology contract (2022 ONSC 1310)
- Obtained injunctions restraining former insiders from engaging in shareholder activism and mandating return of confidential information and software code
- Part of team that obtained order prohibiting acquisition of evidence in U.S. for use in $1 billion price-fixing class action (2017 ONSC 87, aff'd 2018 ONSC 1844)
- Obtained videotaped apology, charitable donation, and significant damages award in defamation suit (2018 ONSC 3711, 2019 ONSC 2910)
- Succeeded in oppression arbitration on behalf of minority shareholder resulting in damages and sale of private business for several hundred million dollars
- Chambers Canada, Ontario: Litigation - General Commercial, Chambers and Partners, 2025
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2024: repeatedly recommended in Litigation – Corporate Commercial
- Lawyer to Watch: Lexpert Special Edition Litigation 2023
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2023: Leading Lawyer to Watch in Litigation - Regulatory & Public Law
- Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40
- The Legal 500: Key Lawyer
- Lexpert Top 10 Business Decisions for 2020-21 for Marian L. Carroll v. Toronto-Dominion Bank c.o.b.TD Bank Group, et al.
- Lexpert to 10 Cases for 2019-20 for 4352238 Canada Inc. v. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., et al.
- "Bill C-63: The Online Harms Act," Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (March 2024)
- "Bill C-11: The Online Streaming Act brings Sweeping changes to Canada's Broadcasting Act," Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (May 2023)
- "Economic Duress in the Canadian Common Law of Contracts: What's the Test," Advocates' Quarterly (Vol. 53, 2023)
- "The Scope of Surrounding Circumstances in Contract Interpretation," Toronto Law Journal (April 2022)
- "The Supreme Court Speaks: SLAPP Suits after Pointes and Platnick," Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2022
- "We Should Judge Decisions, not Judges," The Toronto Star
- "Much Ado About § 1782: Compelling American Discovery for Use in Canadian Class Actions," Annual Review of Civil Litigation, cited in Ontario Superior Court Practice: Annotated Rules & Legislation
- "Time to Name an Aboriginal Justice to the Supreme Court," The Toronto Star
- Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, 2024 Litigation Trends, February 4, 2024
- The Advocates' Society, The Art of Settlement, May 26, 2023
- Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Technology, privacy and cybersecurity summit: Legal insights for a digital age, October 26, 2022
- Ontario Bar Association, 21st Annual Charter Conference: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law, October 12, 2022
- Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association, Annual Conference, hosted fireside discussion with the Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal, September 26, 2021
- Ontario Bar Association and Roundtable of Diversity Associations, 6th Annual Diversity Conference, December 7, 2020
- Runnymede Society, Appellate Litigation in Canada and the US: Former Supreme Court Clerks' Perspectives, October 21, 2020
- Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, COVID-19: Building business resiliency in Canada - Legal considerations for the new normal (webinar), April 22, 2020
- Association of Corporate Counsel, 6th Annual Securities Law Symposium (Toronto), "Potential Privilege Pitfalls for In-house Counsel," November 13, 2019
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
- Law Society of Ontario
- The Advocates' Society
- English
- French
- Hindi
- Urdu