Danielle Royal

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2000

Areas of Practice
Commercial Litigation

Description
Danielle Royal is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group and a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. Her practice focuses on class actions, complex commercial litigation and competition litigation. Danielle has appeared before all levels of Court in Ontario, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has represented clients on several cross-border class actions involving claims of price-fixing and conspiracy, other commercial disputes, as well as a range of product liability claims. Danielle has significant experience advising and assisting companies regarding internal investigations and responding to regulatory, criminal or quasi-criminal investigations and the class action litigation that often accompanies allegations of serious misconduct.

Danielle is a former member of the Associates Committee in the Toronto office.

Professional Activities
Danielle is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and a participating member of the Competition Law Section (Criminal Matters and Enforcement Practices and Procedures Committees). She is also a member of the Antitrust Law Section and the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association and a member of The Advocates’ Society of Ontario. Danielle is co-editor of the firm’s Product Liability Law blog and Class Actions Law blog.

Background
Danielle is a former law clerk of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where she clerked for Justice Charron (prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada), Justice Doherty, Justice Goudge and Justice Labrosse.