Ankita is an associate in the Disputes Group of our Toronto office.
She completed her J.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she graduated in the top 2% of her class with several academic honours, and her LL.M. at Harvard Law School, where she was awarded multiple Dean’s Scholar Prizes and the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership.
Prior to joining Osler, Ankita served as a law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario for Justice Sarah E. Pepall, Justice David M. Brown and Justice Benjamin Zarnett, and at the Supreme Court of Canada for Chief Justice Richard Wagner.
Representative Work
- First Quality Enterprises LLC
First Quality Enterprises in its acquisition of Domtar’s Pulp and Paper Mill in Dryden, Ontario
First Quality Enterprises in its acquisition of Domtar’s Pulp and Paper Mill in Dryden, Ontario
Latest Insights
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Blog Jan 20, 2025
Canada and Manitoba Métis Federation sign landmark self-government treaty
We discuss the main elements of the landmark self-government treaty and remaining areas of uncertainty.
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Blog Jan 20, 2025
All roads lead to the Crown: the intersection of Aboriginal title and fee simple land
A November 2024 decision held that Aboriginal title could be declared over land owned by private companies in the province.
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Blog Jan 20, 2025
‘Agreements must be kept’: Supreme Court applies the honour of the Crown to contracts with Indigenous Peoples
The Supreme Court found that the honour of the Crown can be engaged when governments enter into contracts with Indigenous Peoples.
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Osler Update Dec 13, 2024
New hearing ordered for historic youth-led Charter challenge to Ontario’s Cap and Trade Cancellation Act
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has revived a claim by youth activists who argue that the greenhouse gas emissions target set under Ontario’s Cap...
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Media Mentions
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Osler News Aug 1, 2024
Ankita Gupta appointed to Young Advocates Standing Committee
Ankita Gupta, an associate in the Disputes Group in our Toronto office, has been appointed to the Young Advocates Standing Committee (YASC) of The...
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Osler News Mar 6, 2024
Pro Bono Ontario’s 2023 ‘Honour Roll’ includes 13 Osler lawyers
Pro Bono Ontario named 13 Osler lawyers to its second annual Honour Roll.
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Community Involvement
- Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR), Director
- Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, National Rapporteur
Speaking and Writing
Speaking Engagements
Indigenous Law Insights: a look at the duty to consult test and declaratory relief
Read moreIndigenous Law Insights: SCC interpretation of individual charter rights vs. collective Indigenous rights and federal duty to consult breach
Read moreIndigenous Law Insights: River Dena Council v. Yukon Indigenous mining project consultation and the SCC upholds Bill C-92 constitutionality
Read moreIndigenous Law Insights: Federal UNDRIP action plan update and the importance of consultation in Indigenous negotiations
Read moreIndigenous Law Insights: Métis Nation of Ontario self-government agreement and the federal Interpretation Act non-derogation clause
Read moreIndigenous Law Insights: Federal and B.C. UNDRIP updates and energy project commitments made to Manitoba Métis Federation
Read moreIndigenous Law Insights: Blueberry First Nations implementation agreement and the current state of First Nations self-government agreements
Read morePublished Work
“Bursting the Privacy Bubble: The Right to be Forgotten and the Google Reference” (2022) The Advocates Quarterly 52:3 at 368 (co-authored).
“Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Canada” in Chao Xi, Harpreet Kaur, Christoph Van der Elst & Anne Lafarre, Handbook of Comparative Shareholder Engaging and Voting (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022) (co-authored).
“Walkovszky v. Carlton” in Anne Choike, Usha R. Rodrigues & Kelli Alces Williams, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Corporate Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023) (co-authored).
Credentials
Education
- Harvard Law School, LL.M.
- Osgoode Hall Law School, J.D.
- University of Toronto, BBA (Finance)
Languages
- English
Professional Affiliations
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
- The Advocates' Society
