Polley Faith LLP

About Polley Faith LLP

Polley Faith LLP is a litigation firm in downtown Toronto, founded in 2010 by Mark Polley and Andrew Faith. Both had been litigators at McCarthy Tetrault before moving into criminal prosecution work, and they opened the firm together that year. The team is built around a mix of senior litigators and junior lawyers hired straight out of judicial clerkships, and the firm currently counts two clerks from the Supreme Court of Canada and four from the Ontario Court of Appeal among its lawyers.

Its practice covers complex commercial and shareholder disputes, securities litigation, white collar and fraud matters, regulatory and professional discipline cases, insolvency litigation, class action defence, and appeals up to the Supreme Court of Canada. Past matters include acting as defence counsel in litigation over a $509 million Sears Canada dividend and representing a client in a mining royalty dispute involving more than $100 million. The firm also describes a crisis management practice built to put a team together within hours when a client faces a sudden legal or reputational threat, on top of its longer running commercial and regulatory work.