Baktash Waseil

Partner | Toronto

416.595.7925

Portrait of Baktash Waseil

Overview

Baktash Waseil has developed a broad commercial and civil litigation practice that includes work for private and public corporations in the financial and service-oriented sectors. Baktash’s areas of expertise include complex contractual disputes, debt recovery and enforcement, shareholder disputes, issues revolving around privacy, misrepresentation and negligence, education related litigation, as well as prosecuting and defending matters involving injunctive relief. Baktash is committed to working with his clients to determine the most effective approach to meet their goals.

Baktash also acts for school boards, private schools, insurers, individuals, creditors, non-profit and religious organizations on various matters before the Courts. He regularly appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (including the Divisional Court) on contested matters. He has appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal. He also has significant experience before the Human Rights Tribunal.

Baktash supports Miller Thomson’s General Counsel with firm matters and he often appears before the Courts on behalf of the firm.

Prior to joining the firm, Baktash worked as a Research Assistant at the Supreme Court of Canada, as a Law Clerk to the Justices at the Superior Court of Justice, as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Ottawa (Faculty of Law), and as a Law Student at the Department of Justice (Employment and Social Development Canada, Legal Services).

Baktash is fluently bilingual in English and French and practises in both official languages.

Thought leadership

Community involvement

  • Markham Stouffville Hospital: As a member of the President’s Advisory Council, Baktash provides strategic advice to the President/CEO and Senior Management of the hospital on key initiative such as strategic partnerships, innovation, communication engagement, budget and finance and quality and safety.
  • Law Help Ontario (Pro Bono Ontario): As Duty Counsel, Baktash provides brief summary advice in civil, non-family matters, to unrepresented litigants who cannot afford to hire a lawyer and who do not qualify for Legal Aid.
  • Ryerson University Pro Bono Clinic: Baktash provides free legal advice to Ryerson students on a range of legal issues such as business or work-related issues, consumer contracts and small claims actions.

Professional memberships

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association
  • The Advocates’ Society
  • Toronto Lawyers’ Association
  • Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario

Languages spoken

  • English
  • French
  • Farsi / Persian

Bar admissions & education

  • Ontario, 2016
  • J.D. (cum laude), University of Ottawa, 2015
  • B.Soc.Sc. (political science, honours, magna cum laude), University of Ottawa, 2015