Sarah Stothart

First Year of Call
2017 Ontario

Areas of Practice
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Description
Sarah Stothart is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group at Goodmans. She maintains a broad practice across several areas, but primarily divided between complex commercial, insolvency, and intellectual property litigation.

Sarah’s complex commercial practice involves shareholder and oppression issues, fiduciary duty claims, and allegations of contractual breaches and misrepresentations. She also frequently represents creditors and court-appointed officers in insolvency, restructuring and receivership matters before the Commercial List. Her intellectual property practice involves patent infringement actions at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as copyright and trademark issues. She also has experience advising and representing clients in competition disputes, technology disputes, data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, and regulatory proceedings involving energy and copyright. Prior to returning to Goodmans, Sarah practiced in the Litigation Department of a large multinational law firm based in San Francisco, California.

Sarah has appeared before all levels of Ontario courts and Canadian federal courts, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also appeared before arbitration panels, the Competition Tribunal, the Ontario Energy Board, and in the US before the Delaware Court of Chancery. She is licensed to practice in Ontario and California.