Andrew F. Sunter

First Year of Call
Alberta, 2011

Areas of Practice
Class Actions

Description
Andrew’s practice is focused on complex, high-stakes litigation across a wide range of areas, including commercial, construction, energy, regulatory and security disputes, corporate governance issues and class actions. Before joining BD&P in 2011, Andrew worked at a top national law firm in Toronto. Andrew has appeared as lead counsel before lower courts in Alberta and Ontario, before the Alberta Court of Appeal, before administrative tribunals and in commercial arbitrations.

Andrew’s focus is on:

Commercial and general litigation

Contractual disputes, alleged misuse of confidential information, alleged breaches of trust and/or fiduciary duty, negligence claims and intentional torts
Motions to strike pleadings, summary judgment motions and interlocutory injunction motions
Major construction-related disputes involving complex engineering, procurement and construction issues
Energy litigation

Acts in oil & gas operating, royalty, joint venture and accounting disputes
Commercial arbitration

Acts in domestic and international commercial arbitration proceedings
Securities and shareholder litigation

Represents shareholders, issuers, directors and officers claims for oppression, secondary market misrepresentation, breach of shareholders’ agreements, violations of securities laws and other shareholder-related causes of action
Represents bidders and targets (special committees) in contested/unsolicited takeover bids
Represents boards of directors and shareholders in hostile proxy contests and disputes
Represents shareholders, issuers, directors and officers in proceedings before Canadian securities commissions
Class actions

Acts for defendants and plaintiffs in a wide range of class proceedings
Community involvement
Andrew is a Board member of Hull Services, a non-profit providing child, youth and family mental health services.