Christopher Naudie Bio

Christopher is a senior litigation partner in the Disputes, White Collar Defence and Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment Groups at Osler. He is recognized by his peers as a leading trial and appellate lawyer in Canada in class action defence, regulatory and criminal enforcement and cross-border litigation. He is a key contact for the firm’s Class Action Defence Group, and he has acted as lead counsel in a number of the most significant class proceedings across Canada covering claims of anticompetitive conduct, securities violations, insider trading, oppression and derivative claims, misleading advertising, product liability, privacy claims, as well as negligence and fraud. Christopher has extensive experience litigating complex commercial disputes involving corporate governance, shareholder rights, director and officer liability, auditor’s negligence, valuation proceedings, insurance disputes, privacy and data breaches and professional liability. Christopher has also acted in a number of leading antitrust, securities and disciplinary investigations and enforcement proceedings in Canada, and he regularly acts in matters involving the Competition Bureau, the PPSC, the RCMP, the OSC and CIRO/IIROC. Christopher has law degrees from McGill University and the Harvard Law School, and served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada as well as Justice Morris Fish of the Quebec Court of Appeal. Christopher is ranked as a leading national litigator and class action defence lawyer in Canada in Chambers Global 2023, Benchmark Litigation Canada 2023 and Best Lawyers in Canada 2023. In his younger days, Christopher was recognized by Lexpert as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” lawyers in Canada in 2007.