Monique received her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Windsor in 2004, after completing a semester of legal studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to obtaining her law degree, Monique completed an Honours Bachelor of Science in Zoology at the University of Western Ontario. She joined Siskinds as an articling student in 2004 and, following her Call to the Ontario Bar in 2005, returned to the firm as an associate in Siskinds' Class Actions Group. Monique acts primarily on behalf of individual and institutional investors in securities, options backdating and investment fraud litigation. She is co-counsel in some of the first lawsuits to be filed under Ontario's new civil liability provisions for secondary market disclosure (Part XXIII.1 of the Ontario Securities Act), seeking recovery on behalf of secondary market investors for misrepresentations by reporting issuers and their officers and directors: TVI Pacific Inc., Gammon Gold Inc. and CP Ships Limited. Monique also acts for shareholders in derivative litigation. She is currently representing institutional investors in derivative litigation involving Nortel Networks Corporation and Savanna Energy Services Corp. Additionally, Monique contributed as part of the successful defence team in the 2007 adjudication of the Authorson v. Attorney General of Canada class action litigation. |