Sarit E. Batner  

Biography

Sarit E. Batner is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Toronto Litigation Group, and is a member of the firm’s Board of Partners. She maintains a significant trial and appellant litigation practice, with a focus on complex commercial litigation and arbitrations. Ms. Batner has extensive trial and appellate experience in cases considering breach of contract, shareholder disputes, taxation, oppression, professional negligence and breaches of fiduciary duties. Ms. Batner is Co-Chair of the firm’s Franchise & Distribution Group, having litigated many significant cases in this area, including in relation to Petro Canada, General Motors, IGA/Sobeys, A&P, Second Cup, and Country Style. Ms. Batner has experience before courts of appeal, including as lead counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, and trial courts with juries, arbitration panels, administrative and regulatory tribunals. She has a particular interest in professional liability matters, having acted as counsel for doctors as well as engineers, accountants and lawyers, in a wide variety of cases. Set out below are some of the trials and appeals in which she has been counsel, as well as some of Ms. Batner’s other recent cases before the courts. Ms. Batner has a record of success before all levels of courts in Ontario and often speaks and writes on matters of substantive law and procedure. She also teaches Trial Advocacy to both students and lawyers at the University of Toronto Law School and at Osgoode Hall’s annual Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop. She is frequently invited to speak at legal conferences. The current edition of Lexpert / American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada lists Ms. Batner as a leading lawyer in the area of Corporate Commercial Litigation. She is also listed as a leading lawyer in the current edition of Chambers Canada in the area of Litigation: General Commercial (Ontario). She is listed as a leading lawyer in the current edition of Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Professional Liability, Litigation: Corporate Commercial and Medical Negligence. She is also listed as a litigation star in the current edition of Benchmark Litigation: Guide to Canada’s Leading Firms and Attorneys. In 2017, Benchmark Canada named Ms. Batner one of the Top 50 Trial Lawyers in Canada, and in 2017, Ms. Batner was included in Benchmark Canada’s list of the Top 25 Women in Canadian Litigation for the fourth consecutive year. In 2013, she also received the Rising Star in Litigation Award at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards and was selected by Lexpert as one of the Rising Stars – Leading Lawyers under 40. Ms. Batner obtained a B.Sc. with Distinction in Mathematics and was awarded the Gold Medal in Sciences from the University of Western Ontario in 1995. She obtained a JD from the University of Toronto in 1998, was called to the Ontario bar in 2000 and was made a partner in 2006.

Research Interest

Business