Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Blog

Scott acts as litigation counsel for clients involved in corporate/commercial disputes. His practice involves prosecuting and defending claims for clients across a wide range of industries. He advises primarily on disputes ...

Keith advises private sector, public sector and government clients on Indigenous law and regulatory matters. He has appeared as counsel before numerous regulatory tribunals and all levels of Superior and Appellate Courts (both ...

Laura is a litigator practicing in all areas of civil and commercial litigation. Laura has appeared as both trial and appellate counsel, including before all levels of court in British Columbia, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ...

Kinji has a general commercial and business litigation practice with a diverse mixture of practice areas and a broad range of experience. Kinji’s primary practice areas include complex commercial and civil litigation with a ...

Tom is a commercial litigator, with particular experience in complex corporate disputes.

Tom has appeared before all levels of Court in British Columbia as lead and junior counsel. Tom has particular experience in the following ...

Jennie Buchanan is an associate in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group in Calgary. Jennie has a general commercial litigation practice, with a focus on commercial arbitration, administrative law, and ...

Tamela (Tammy) Coates, QC, FCIArb. is a senior litigation and dispute resolution partner in Lawson Lundell’s Calgary office.

Tammy brings more than 30 years of experience advising clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes ...

Shailaz practices regulatory and administrative law with a focus on energy, environmental, public utility and indigenous law matters. She has knowledge and experience navigating regulatory processes for various industries and ...

Mark's practice encompasses a broad range of commercial disputes, including technology and intellectual property litigation, protection of trade secrets, breaches of fiduciary obligation, and fraud. He has particular ...

Craig is a litigator and acts for clients in commercial and business disputes. His particular areas of specialization include shareholder remedies, trust, pension and fiduciary disputes, securities and transactional ...

Meg is a member of Lawson Lundell’s Research and Opinions Group. She regularly provides legal research, opinions and submissions on a wide range of legal topics.

Her background includes advising clients and organizations in a ...

Kyle is a lawyer in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group in Calgary, with a practice focused on general commercial litigation.

Kyle represents and advises clients in a wide variety of industries including energy ...

Ricki-Lee practices civil litigation. Her main focus is on media law, constitutional law, administrative law, and complex contract, tort, and corporate governance and securities claims. In her media law practice, she has ...

Sarvenaz Ghattan-Kashani is a summer student in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell. She is interested in exploring all practice areas and has a particular interest in Intellectual Property in the gaming and fashion industry.

In his over 30 years of practice, Bryan has regularly advised banking and financial institution clients with respect to loan restructuring, insolvency, realization and recoveries. In this capacity, Bryan is particularly adept at ...

Rosemary is an associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group in Calgary.  Rosemary started with Lawson Lundell as a summer student in 2019 and joined the firm as an associate following the completion of her articles in 2021.

In ...

Kelly practices commercial litigation with a focus on energy, securities, and tax litigation. Kelly has argued cases at all levels of court in Alberta, the Tax Court of Canada, and the Alberta Securities Commission. Kelly has ...

Sarah is an associate in Lawson Lundell’s Commercial Litigation group, where she advises and acts for clients in a wide range of commercial disputes. She has assisted clients with matters being litigated at all levels of court and ...

Shannon has a corporate commercial litigation and arbitration practice with a broad range of experience in complex matters involving contract disputes and business torts. Her primary practice area is energy and power industry ...

Jeff is a litigator in Vancouver practicing civil litigation with a focus on commercial disputes. He advises clients on a wide range of issues, including contractual claims, real estate litigation, insurance matters, and ...

Grace practices general civil litigation and dispute resolution in Lawson Lundell LLP’s Calgary office. Building a broad litigation practice, Grace regularly assists in various energy, commercial, administrative ...

Nic Lindal is an associate in the Calgary office of Lawson Lundell LLP. His practice focuses on regulatory, environmental and Indigenous law with a particular emphasise on advising clients in the energy, natural resource, and ...

Scott Lucyk, FCIArb., is an associate in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell practising in the Commercial Litigation group. Scott has a broad range of experience including contractual disputes, shareholder remedies, joint ...

Alastair’s practice focuses on regulatory, environmental and Indigenous law. He advises clients on the regulatory aspects of the full life-cycle of project development and operation, including:

• obtaining project and ...

Noor is an associate in the Insolvency and Restructuring Group in Lawson Lundell’s Vancouver office. Noor advises Canadian banks and other institutional lenders on a wide variety of matters including lending, debt ...

Lewis’ practice focuses on Regulatory/Administrative Law energy matters involving both the electricity and oil and gas sectors including all aspects of rate applications, toll design, facilities applications, cost of ...

Mike’s main area of focus is commercial litigation with an emphasis on construction disputes including, in particular, builder's liens, as well as commercial and residential real estate disputes. In addition, he also has ...

Amy is a litigator practicing civil and commercial litigation. She acts for clients in complex business and commercial disputes in a broad range of industries.  Her practice areas include pension and benefits disputes, commercial ...

Kai is a litigation associate in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell LLP. His litigation practice focuses on assisting publicly traded and privately held corporations, and public sector entities with commercial and ...

Anna is a lawyer in the litigation and dispute resolution group. She focuses primarily on civil and commercial litigation and acts for clients in a broad range of industries. Anna has appeared before all levels of court in British ...

Lisa is the head of the firm’s Research and Opinions Group. She prepares opinions, pleadings, factums and briefs on a broad range of legal topics. A large number of the opinions and other legal writing she has produced are in relation ...

Jahaan is a litigation associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group in the Calgary office. Jahaan started with Lawson Lundell as a summer student in 2019 and joined the firm as an associate in 2022.

In 2020, Jahaan obtained ...

Will practises in the areas of insolvency and restructuring law with an emphasis on insolvency proceedings, banking litigation, creditors’ remedies and fraud claims.

Will routinely represents creditors, debtors and ...

Peter is a litigator with a wide range of experience, practising for over 30 years in Vancouver. For a number of years he practised criminal law before resuming civil and commercial litigation, including claims involving ...

Natasha Sanders is an articled student in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell LLP. She has a particular interest in real estate law, as well as environmental and Indigenous law.

Natasha completed her J.D. at Bond University in ...

Joel Schachter is a lawyer in the litigation and dispute resolution group. He has assisted with matters before all levels of court in British Columbia, and in various forms of alternative dispute resolution including mediation and ...

Jonathan's practice includes all areas of civil and commercial litigation. In his commercial litigation practice, Jonathan has experience in a broad range of cases involving insurance matters, shareholder’s disputes and ...

Will is a partner in the Environmental & Regulatory Group of the Vancouver office. His practice focuses on environmental, public utility, and regulatory law.

Will has assisted proponents of mining, energy and infrastructure ...

Isaac is a lawyer in the litigation and dispute resolution group, where he practices civil and commercial litigation. Isaac litigates a wide range of issues, including contractual disputes, company and shareholder disputes, real ...

Marika’s practice is focused on resolving complicated business disputes, with an emphasis on disputes relating to the energy industry, including power and renewable energy. She has particular experience handling complex ...

Marko practices civil and commercial litigation with a focus on class actions, defamation, cross-border disputes, shareholder disputes, pension litigation, and commercial arbitrations. He has appeared as lead counsel before ...

Grant is a corporate and commercial litigator with experience in a broad range of industries and disputes. He fiercely advocates for all of his clients.

He has extensive experience in the Alberta Court of Queens Bench and the Alberta ...

Ben is an associate in the Mining and Real Estate groups at the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell.

He assists clients on a broad range of mining and commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions and sales, financing ...

Catherine is a member of the Research and Opinions Group. She has experience in conducting research and drafting legal opinions on a broad spectrum of topics, including insurance policy interpretation, tort law principles ...

Ed practices in the real estate and municipal law fields with a specialty in real estate development.

Ed has assisted clients in such projects as: redevelopment of industrial sites to permit multi-family residential uses; heritage ...

Shannon is a litigator with more than 18 years of experience advising clients in complex, commercial disputes. Her practice primarily focuses on contractual and energy disputes, joint venture, accounting and operator claims. She ...

Flora Wu is an associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group in Vancouver, where she currently maintains a general litigation practice. Flora started with Lawson Lundell as a summer student in 2019 and joined the firm as an ...

Özge is an associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group, where she practices general civil and commercial litigation. She has appeared as lead counsel at all levels of court in British Columbia.

Özge has experience ...