Eric Morgan is a founding partner at Morgan Joshi LLP, a Toronto boutique focused on complex business disputes, investigations, and corporate governance. He acts for businesses, directors, and executives in high‑stakes litigation, arbitration, and governance matters across Canada.
He represents founders, companies, and senior management in disputes over business ownership and control. He regularly defends public and private companies across the banking, insurance, energy, and manufacturing sectors in breach of contract, fiduciary duty, misrepresentation, and shareholder disputes, and has defended multinationals in class actions alleging conspiracy, fraud, and misrepresentation. Eric has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada and courts across multiple provinces.
Eric is also an experienced arbitrator, having been appointed in over 20 domestic and international proceedings by parties, courts, and institutions. He sits on the inaugural NextGen Roster at Arbitration Place and the panel of arbitrators at the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre.
Before founding Morgan Joshi, Eric practiced in the national litigation department at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, was a partner at a Toronto boutique, and gained additional experience at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London.
Eric is recognized in Benchmark Litigation Canada (Litigation Star in Arbitration and Securities, 2025), The Best Lawyers in Canada (Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration), and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Arbitration).
He holds a first‑class BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and is called to the bar in Ontario and England and Wales.
Defending independent directors in claims exceeding $200 million involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty and oppression.
Defending a company and its directors against claims of oppression, breach of fiduciary duty, and related party transactions.
Representing a party resisting enforcement of a foreign arbitral award before the Court of Appeal.
- Acting for a founder in a multi‑million dollar earn‑out dispute.
- Appellate
- Arbitration
- Commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution
- International arbitration
- Private client
- Consumer goods and services
- Energy
- Financial services
- Mining
- Natural resources
- Oil and gas
- Real estate
- Technology and telecommunications
- BA (Jurisprudence), Oxford University, 2007
- BA (Economics), University of Toronto, 2005
- Ontario, 2011
- England and Wales (Solicitor), 2008