Mark G. Evans

Mark G. Evans is a Partner at Dentons and the National Practice Group Leader for the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in Canada. He is also a member of the Canada Firm's National Management Committee, the Global co-leader for the Firm's Fraud and Asset Recovery Group and a member of the global litigation leadership team. His practice focuses on Commercial Litigation.

Mark is a leading banking and commercial litigation lawyer with more than two decades of experience in financial services litigation, the co-ordination and prosecution of banking and securities-related frauds, internal investigations, as well as in the recovery of misappropriated assets. He is also frequently retained as lead litigation counsel by Canadian and multinational clients on significant class action matters.

His experience includes acting as co-lead counsel to The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited in successfully opposing certification of a proposed class action and defending that result on appeal (Cleaver v. The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, 2025 BCSC 910; 2026 BCCA 353); acting as lead counsel to HSBC Bank Canada and HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. in obtaining summary judgment and the dismissal of all claims brought against the financial institution (James v. HSBC Bank of Canada, 2025 ONSC 1944); acting as lead counsel to a multinational financial institution in parallel class proceedings related to allegations of manipulation in global gold and silver markets (Di Filippo et al v. Bank of Nova Scotia et al); and acting as leading counsel for a securities dealer in Frayce v. BMO Investorline Inc et al, 2023 ONSC 16, successfully opposing certification of a proposed class proceeding related to the receipt of trailing commissions by OEO investment dealers.

He also acted as counsel to US-based issuers relating to Canadian listing matters; advised a sovereign state in respect of civil proceedings brought in Ontario engaging issues of corruption, asset recovery and sovereign state immunity; and acted for a multinational banking institution in locating funds, obtaining freeze orders and ultimately recovering $1.8 million in fraud proceeds located domestically and in Africa (100% recovery).

Mark holds an LLB from Dalhousie University (1999), a BComm (Co-Op) from Memorial University (1994) and completed the Canadian Securities Course (1994). He is recognised by Thomson Reuters as a Stand-out Lawyer, by Benchmark Litigation as a "Litigation Star" in Class Action, Commercial Litigation and Securities, by The Legal 500 Canada for Dispute Resolution, by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Asset Recovery Law and Class Action Litigation, by Chambers Canada for Litigation: General Commercial (Ontario), and by Who's Who Legal: Canada as one of the world's leading lawyers in Asset Recovery Law (2017–2019). He was the exclusive winner of the ILO Client Choice Award in the Litigation Category for Canada (2012) and a finalist in Lexpert's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" (2011).