Sinziana R. Hennig

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2012

Areas of Practice
Commercial Litigation

Description
Sinziana Hennig is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group and a member of the Students Committee in the Toronto office. Her practice focuses on class actions and complex commercial litigation. Sinziana has defended class actions involving competition, securities, consumer protection, product liability, and franchise law claims. She has significant experience in defending multi-jurisdictional and cross-border class actions, as well as in obtaining dismissal of securities class actions at an early stage. Her commercial litigation experience includes M&A litigation, complex contractual disputes, competition litigation, securities litigation, shareholder disputes, and arbitral proceedings.

She has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the courts of appeal of Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, superior courts in four provinces, the Federal Court, and the Ontario Securities Commission.

Professional Activities
Sinziana is a member of The Advocates’ Society, serving as Past Chair of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Member-at-Large of the Class Actions Practice Group. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association and the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, coaching the Gale Cup Moot teams.

Background
Sinziana clerked for Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada. She won the Vinerian Scholarship (proxime accessit) for second best performance in the graduate B.C.L. program at Oxford where she studied commercial remedies, financial law, conflict of laws, and international commercial arbitration.

Sinziana has a background in biological sciences and organic chemistry, including research experience and graduate work.