Dominic J. Auld

Dominic J. Auld co-founded BFA in 2014 and has nearly two decades of experience in representing and advising institutional clients in large-scale securities and investment-related lawsuits.
 
Dominic is responsible for BFA’s outreach to pension systems, asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds outside the United States, regularly advising clients in Europe, Australia, Asia, and across his home country of Canada.
 
Dominic and his team have served as liaison counsel to global investors in dozens of shareholder and investor litigations outside the United States. With extensive experience working directly with institutional clients impacted by securities fraud, Dominic played a key role in representing the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in major securities actions, including In re Nortel Networks Corp. Securities Litigation, In re Williams Securities Litigation, and In re Biovail Corp. Securities Litigation–cases that collectively recovered over $1.7 billion for investors.
 
Dominic is sought after as a high-profile commentator on topics such as corporate governance, shareholder activism, fiduciary duty, corporate misconduct, and international class and collective litigation. He has been a regular speaker and panelist at law and investment conferences, including past events such as the Canadian Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights (FAIR Canada) and Osgoode Hall Law School conference on public and private securities enforcement and investor recovery in Toronto, the IMF Bentham shareholder class action conference in Sydney, and the Annual International Bar Association meeting in Dubai.
 
Dominic is the author of various articles of interest to the firm’s client base, including an analysis of shareholder remedies in Japan in Law360, and a piece regarding custodian bank fees and their impact on pension funds globally in Investment & Pensions Europe Magazine's Nordic Regions Pensions and Investment News section. He is quoted in publications including The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Times of London, among others, and numerous trade publications such as Global Pensions, OP Risk and Regulation, The Lawyer, Professional Pensions, and Benefits Canada. He also was interviewed by Corporate Counsel for a feature article on rogue trading.
 
Prior to founding BFA, Dominic was a partner at another securities litigation firm, and was previously a member of the team responsible for prosecuting the landmark action In re WorldCom Inc. Securities Litigation, which resulted in a settlement of more than $6 billion.
 
Dominic has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters in the field of securities litigation and has been “recommended” in the field of securities litigation by Legal 500.