Albert Pelletier

Biography

Albert has over two decades of professional experience as an investment advisor and lawyer. Albert worked at Nesbitt Burns while in business school and graduated with distinction from law school with a common law degree in English and a civil law degree in French. He is a Certified Investment Manager and Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.

Albert’s passion is to bring securities class actions against corporate wrongdoers in Canada and the United States. Previously, Albert was a managing partner of Morganti & Co., P.C. (2018-2022), one of the most influential shareholder protection litigation law firms in Canada at the time. Before that, Albert prosecuted insider trading and market manipulation cases for the Ontario Securities Commission, and ran a fraud recovery practice at a large Canadian law firm.

Mr. Pelletier’s representative cases include Gowanlock v. Auxly Cannabis Group Inc., (2021 ONSC 4205) (leave to proceed with a secondary market misrepresentation claim under Part XXIII.1 of the Ontario Securities Act); Miller v. FSD Pharma, Inc. 2020 ONSC 4054 (leave to proceed); Kauf v. Colt Resources, Inc., 2019 ONSC 2179 (leave to proceed); Eda Marie Agueci et al. (Re) (2015), 38 OSCB 1573 (insider trading prosecution) and (2015), LNONOSC 375 (sanctions) and Fiorillo et al v. Ontario Securities Commission, 2016 ONSC 6559 (Divisional Court appeal dismissed); Crown Hill Capital Corporation and Wayne Lawrence Pushka (2013), 36 OSCB 8721 (investment manager breaches of duties) and (2014), 37 OSCB 7509 (sanctions), and 2016 ONSC 3041 (Divisional Court appeal dismissed); and Law Society of Upper Canada v. Farkas, 2018 ONLSTA 2 (Law Society Tribunal-Appeal Division).