Employee and Employer Rights

• Advising business owners regarding employment matters, including hiring, termination, policies and leaves.

• Drafting and analysis of employment agreements across a variety of industries, including executive agreements, independent contractor agreements, and consulting agreements.

• Drafting and analysis of employment policies, including profit sharing programs, bonus policies, share distribution plans, privacy and confidential information policies, and other policies.

• Drafting and analysis of termination provisions and restrictive covenants, including non-competition, non-solicitation, and intellectual property provisions or agreements.

Employment Law

• Successful negotiation, litigation, mediation, and arbitration of a variety of employment disputes acting for both employees and employers, including severance negotiations, terminations for cause and without cause, disputed bonus or share rights, and enforcement of restrictive covenants, such as non-competition and non-solicitation provisions or agreements.

• Many complex severance negotiations acting for managers and executives against large, sophisticated employers.

• Analysis and advice to purchasers and sellers of businesses regarding employee liabilities.

• Lead counsel for Claimants and Respondents on multiple human rights claims in Alberta.

• Lead counsel for a contested Freedom of Information Request for proprietary industry data from an international engineering firm.

• Lead counsel concerning an alleged privacy breach investigated by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.

Business litigation

• Tiamat Resources Inc v Procyon Resources Corp, 2021 ABQB 646. Successful defence of application to set aside general security agreement due to alleged fraudulent preference between creditors. 

• Taiga Gold Corp (Re), 2022 ABQB 290. Successful application for approval of a plan of arrangement contested by certain warrant holders.

• Counsel on numerous successful plan of arrangement applications and business acquisitions, including the acquisition of Quorum Information Technologies by Valsoft Corporation (2025), the acquisition of Canadian Global Manufacturing by E3 Company (2025)

• Wilson v. Cordy Manufacturing Inc., 2018 ABQB 592. Successfully asserted claim for standing by party who was being added late to a litigation dispute.

• Counsel on a successful application in commercial court for contested seizure and disbursement of assets arising from various oil and gas working interests.

• Lead counsel on multiple complex mediations and arbitrations, including disputes relating to ownership of confidential information, breaches of contract, shareholder oppression and other matters.

• Successfully negotiated contested dissolutions of a franchise agreements.

• Successfully negotiated and mediated purchase and sale of a variety of business, including accounting practices and a financial services practice for parties working at a national bank in Canada.

Real Estate litigation

• Lead counsel for condominium corporation for a three-day arbitration with expert evidence regarding building envelope deficiencies.

• Multiple successful adjudications of disputed contract claims and lien claims pursuant to the Prompt Payment and Construction Liens Act.

• Lead counsel on successful negotiation and removal of approximately $2 million of lien claims on a commercial project involving a failed general contractor.

• Co-counsel on complex construction dispute respecting delay damages of $13.5 million relating to construction of a high-rise office tower in Calgary.

• Advised numerous clients, including contractors, developers, and landowners respecting builders’ lien claims on residential and commercial projects, including many Court applications and hearings to remove and establish the validity of lien claims.

• Advised a number of condominium corporations regarding constructing deficiencies and resulting litigation, arbitration or settlement of such disputes.