"A lawyer who understands how to strategically resolve your most challenging business disputes and investigate what matters most to your business."
When businesses, directors, and executives face complex legal crises, they need a lawyer who understands both the legal landscape and business reality.
Sandeep combines extensive legal expertise with real world business experience to handle the matters that threaten organizational stability and reputation. His unique perspective comes from resolving high-stakes disputes, conducting sensitive investigations, and navigating regulatory proceedings as both external counsel at top-tier law firms and as senior in-house counsel managing enterprise-wide legal risk.
Sandeep brings a practical perspective and resolves complex business disputes with wide-ranging implications. He has a particular focus on defending director and executive liability claims related to high-profile business decisions and alleged wrongdoing.
Sandeep conducts and leads independent investigations into alleged wrongdoing by executives, directors, and businesses. He knows how to manage sensitive inquiries under time pressure and deliver findings that withstand scrutiny. As Head of BMO Financial Group’s Canadian Corporate Investigations team, he led investigations across every area ranging from internal policy and regulatory breaches to fraud and serious criminal activity.
Sandeep defends businesses, directors, and executives facing regulatory enforcement proceedings. He led BMO’s Canadian regulatory legal team, navigating investigations and enforcement matters with securities, privacy, consumer protection, and competition regulators. He understands how regulators think and how to position clients strategically in responding to investigations and defending enforcement actions.
Sandeep previously practiced in the national litigation departments at Torys LLP and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and handled complex business disputes and class actions across Canada.
Representative Experience
Business Disputes
Sandeep has represented clients in high-stakes disputes across Canada, including:
Independent directors in defending claims for $1.4 billion related to the collapse of an investment fund company.
An officer and shareholder in defending a $900 million claim related to the failure of a construction company.
Public and private companies, directors, and executives in the banking, insurance, energy, manufacturing, and consumer product industries in defending breach of contract, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and misrepresentation disputes.
Multi-national companies in defending class actions alleging conspiracy, fraud, misrepresentation, price-fixing, and product liability.
Investigations
Investigations
Sandeep has conducted investigations into:
Senior executives, including CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite roles, across financial services, consumer products, manufacturing, and technology companies for alleged financial improprieties, conflicts of interest, statutory breaches, internal policy breaches, misuse and disclosure of confidential information, procurement violations, harassment, discrimination, and assault.
Employees at all levels of a major financial institution for alleged misconduct ranging from internal policy breaches to financial impropriety to serious criminal activity.
Athletes, coaches, and executives regarding alleged sexual, physical, and psychological maltreatment, discrimination, grooming, and boundary transgressions in elite-level sports across Canada.
Organizational issues involving significant legal, regulatory, financial, or reputational risk, including the largest external cybersecurity breach in Canadian financial services history and related fraud and privacy violations involving customer information.
Regulatory Defence
Sandeep has defended companies and individuals against securities, competition, and privacy regulators across Canada, including:
Companies, directors, executives, and employees across multiple industries in insider trading, fraud, material misrepresentation, stock option, and compliance investigations and enforcement hearings before provincial securities commissions and CIRO.
Companies in the consumer products, construction, manufacturing, and transportation industries in price-fixing, bid-rigging, misleading advertising, and abuse of dominance investigations under the Competition Act, and a major Canadian bank in unprecedented, concurrent OSFI and FCAC investigations into sales practices.
Public and private companies in connection with privacy breaches and OPC investigations.
Multiple companies responding to search warrants, production orders, and information requests from regulators and law enforcement.
Corporate Governance Advisory
Sandeep has advised businesses on governance frameworks, crisis response, and post-investigation remediation, including:
Developing and enhancing investigation procedures and compliance frameworks.
Navigating public and private crises involving alleged misconduct and reputational challenges.
Responding to cybercrime and related fraud and privacy breaches.
Post-investigation recommendations such as code of conduct and policy revisions, control enhancements, and process improvements to prevent future misconduct.
Bar Admissions
Ontario (2004)
Alberta (2013)
Education
Bachelor of Laws (with Distinction), University of Alberta (2003)
Best Lawyers in Canada: Director and Officer Liability (2025)
Benchmark Litigation Canada: Future Star (2022 and 2025)
Lexpert: Rising Stars – Leading Lawyers Under 40 (2019)
Recent Insights
Procedural Fairness: Practical Insights, Law Society of Ontario, Workplace Investigations Conference (November 2025)
Effective Investigations and Good Governance, Governance Professionals of Canada Webinar (July 2025)
The Aftermath: Remediating and Strengthening the Organization After an Investigation, University of Ottawa and Association of Workplace Investigators, Workplace Investigations in Canada Conference (June 2025)
Navigating the Boardroom: A Discussion Framework for C-Suite Investigations, Association of Workplace Investigators Journal (April 2025)
Best Practices for Conducting C-Suite Investigations, Association of Workplace Investigators Conference (September 2024)
Addressing Anonymous and Workplace Complaints, Thompson Rivers University and Association of Workplace Investigators, Workplace Investigations in Canada Conference (May 2024)
