About Our Firm

Providing Big Law expertise with a personal touch, Craig Aitken founded Aitken Legal out of a desire to found a law firm that provided sophisticated legal services to small and medium businesses, entrepreneurs, and individual knowledge workers confronted with difficult issues relating to asset recovery or proprietary information.

Craig first encountered working with classified information as a Navel Combat Information Operator in the Canadian Forces. He sailed on several military vessels during this time, and has been fascinated by the subject ever since. Craig spent his youth traveling the world when he could. In due course, he received a Master’s of International History with distinction from the London School of Economics. After practicing law in Alberta and British Columbia for a number of years, Craig received the Graduate Fellowship in Law and Innovation to pursue research on trade secrecy and confidential information at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Craig’s family had set down roots in Toronto in the meantime, and he has since been highly active on the Toronto Civil Urgent List and the Commercial List.

Craig has significant courtroom experience at the hearing, trial, and appeal level. This specifically includes regular on-the-ground experience relating to injunctive and urgent relief relating to fraud and asset tracing and preservation, as well as trade secrecy and unfair competition relating to the misappropriation of business secrets. Craig also regularly deals with matters relating to disputes over corporate assets, secured creditor enforcement of priority, as well as bankruptcy and insolvency. Craig enjoys the mental work related to appeals. He has appeared before Court of Appeal in Ontario and Alberta as well as Ontario Divisional Court, and has made submissions to the Supreme Court of Canada.