Sanj
Sood

Sanj is Co-Leader of the firm's Transportation Group and a member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Financial Services Groups. He assists private and public companies, municipalities and financial institutions with their most complex commercial problems. These include disputes arising from commercial transactions, disagreements amongst shareholders and development disputes.

Sanj’s skill and creativity allow him to implement the most strategic and effective courses of action to best position his clients for success at mediation, arbitration or trial. For more than twenty years, Sanj has effectively advocated for his clients’ interests in Ontario’s trial and appellate courts, before administrative tribunals, at private arbitrations and at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Sanj’s practical and business-minded approach also allows him to help clients identify potential avenues of liability so that they can be avoided. He is regularly retained by clients to conduct internal investigations to ensure their adherence to compliance regimes, such as those mandated by the Competition Act, the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Highway Traffic Act. Sanj also defends entities that are under investigation by provincial and national regulatory authorities.

Sanj is a part of the faculty that teaches trial advocacy to law students at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is also an instructor at the Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, an annual course offered by Osgoode Professional Development and York University, which teaches young advocates advanced trial advocacy techniques.

Outside of law, Sanj’s interests include cooking, travelling and reading, particularly Canadian and 19^th century English fiction.