Specializing in all aspects of banking and commercial litigation including restructuring, realizations, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidations, corporate arrangements, commercial proposals and work-outs, priorities disputes, farm mediation and realizations, commodities litigation and trading disputes.

Partner
Admitted to bar, 1985, Manitoba.

Education
University of Manitoba (B.A., 1977, LL.B., 1984).

Member
Canadian Bar Association; Manitoba Bar Council (Life Council Member); Civil Litigation and Bankruptcy subsections, Manitoba Bar Association; Bankruptcy Litigation subsection, American Bar Association; Turnaround Management Association.

Positions
National Secretary, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section of the Canadian Bar Association (2006-present); Chair, Financial Advisory Services Practice Group, Taylor McCaffrey LLP (1999-present); Past Chair, Bankruptcy Section, Manitoba Bar Association (2001-2006). 

Publications

• "All Screwed Up? The Good, The Bad and The Ugly New Statutory Priorities under Chapter 47" (2006) 9 Commercial Insolvency Reporter Vol. 19 Nos. 1 and 2
• "Status of Farm Income Stabilization Programs in Bankruptcy" (2006) 21 National Creditor Debtor Review 38 (co-author)
• "BIA Transformed into a Mini CCAA", The Lawyers Weekly, March 17, 2006
• "Is There Anything Left for the Secured Lenders? The Current State of Statutory Super Priorities and the Impact of Bill C-55" (2006) National Insolvency Review, Vol. 23 No. 1
• "Bill C-55's New Super Priorities for Unpaid Wages and Pension Contributions", The Lawyers Weekly, November 18, 2005
• "What's on Second? Recent Additions to the Motley, Straggling Line of Cases in Which Her Majesty Endeavours to Jump the Priority Queue", 2005 National Insolvency Review, April Edition
• "Who's on First? Recent Additions to the Motley, Straggling Line of Cases in Which Her Majesty Endeavours to Jump the Priority Queue", Commercial Insolvency Reporter, Vol. 16 No. 4 (April, 2004) (Co-author)
• "Another Mad Cow? Protection Against Creditors under the Farm Debt Mediation Act", Canadian Bar Association Bankruptcy Newsletter (March, 2004)
• "Wage & Pension Protection in the Upcoming Round of Insolvency Form - Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?" Commercial Insolvency Reporter (February, 2003)
• "The Hermaphrodite Litigant: Suing Yourself Under Section 38 of the BIA", National Creditor Debtor Review Vol. 17 No. 2 (June, 2002)
• "Forced Collectivization CCRA Style? Creditors Respond to the Latest Source Deduction Priority", National Creditor Debtor Review Vol. 17, No. 1 (March, 2002)

Lecturer/Presentation

• Conference Chair "Show Me the Money! 21st Century Collection Law in Manitoba", Law Society of Manitoba Continuing Legal Education, October 24, 2006
• "Recent Developments in Federal Crown Priorities" Advanced Insolvency Law & Practice Conference, Calgary, October 12, 2006
• "Rewriting the Rules for the 21st Century: Chapter 47 and other Reform Developments", CBA Pan-Canadian Insolvency and Restructuring Conference, Gatineau, Quebec, September 8, 2006
• "Chapter 47" CAIRP National Conference, August, 2006
• "Industries in Trouble - A Local's Perspective - Agriculture Subsidies" presentation to the CAIRP Insolvency and Restructuring Forum, Winnipeg, May 11, 2006
• "Competing Claims Between CRA and Other Creditors", 6th Annual Advanced Insolvency Conference, Toronto, January 2006
• Co-Chair, Inaugural Plan-Canadian Conference on Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring Law, Quebec City, September 2005
• "More Cows, Cheap Sows and Farm Debt Protection", Joint Section Meeting for the Manitoba Bar Association and the Manitoba Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals, March 2005
• "Priorities and Super Priorities", 5th Annual Advanced Insolvency Conference, Toronto, January 2005
• Conflict Issues" Panel Discussion CAIRP Insolvency and Restructuring Forum (2004)
• "Protecting Trade Creditors in Bankruptcy", Presentation to Certified Management of Accountants Organization (2004)
• "Critical Update on Creditor's Priorities: CCRA v. Other Creditors", 4th Annual Advanced insolvency Law and Practice Conference, Canadian Institute, Toronto, Ontario (2004)
• Panel Discussion on Insolvency Reform, Canadian Institute's Advanced Insolvency Conference (Toronto, 2003)
• Panel Discussion on Agricultural Legal and Business Issues, Manitoba Mid-Winter conference (January, 2003)
• Program Chair: "Advising Financial Troubled Business", Law Society of Manitoba, February 2002;
• "Bankruptcy: A Creditor's Perspective", Law Society of Manitoba, January, 2002
• "Forced Collectivization, CCRA Style" and "The Hermaphrodite Litigant", Canadian Bar Association annual Meeting, August 2001
• "Liability of the Insolvency Practitioner", Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association Annual Meeting, May, 2000
• "New Federal Priorities & Bankruptcy", Law Society of Manitoba, February 14, 2000
• "1998 Technical Update", Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association Annual Conference, October, 1998
• University of Manitoba Faculty of Law Pre-trial Process and Advocacy (1994-1998
• "Bankruptcy Segment for General Law Update for Family Lawyers", Law Society of Manitoba, September, 1998
• "Bankruptcy Proceeding: Representing Creditors", Law Society of Manitoba, January, 1997
• "Professional Proposals", Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association Annual Conference, October, 1996
• "Commercial Fraud and Bankruptcy", Law Society of Manitoba, April 1995
• "Commercial Lawyers and Commercial Proposals", Business Subsection of the Manitoba Bar Association, January, 1994
• "Unsung Amendments of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act", Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association, October, 1993
• "Shifting Liabilities", Canadian Insolvency Association Annual Conference, May, 1990

Papers

• "Farm Protection in Manitoba - Safety Net or Trap for the Unwary", MBA Mid-Winter Meeting, January 31, 2003
• "What Creditors Need to Know to Protect their Interest in Bankruptcy", January 2002
• "The Hermaphrodite Litigant: suing Yourself under BIA p. 38" and "Forced Collectivization, CCRA Style? Creditors Respond to Latest Source Deduction Priority" CBA Bankruptcy Section Annual Meeting, August, 2001
• "Taking the Debtor to Court", Collection Law in Manitoba Seminars, May, 2000, and 2001
• "Primer on Federal Priorities", Law Society of Manitoba CLE, February 14, 2000
• Prepared paper: "Is Nothing Sacred? The New Federal Priorities & Bankruptcy"
• Manitoba Contributor to "Special Claim Status by Province", Priorities update for the 1998 CIPA Insolvency Seminar, October, 1998
• "Technical Update 1998: Her Majesty Strikes Back", Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association Annual Conference, October, 1998
• "What Happens when Bankruptcy and Family Law Collide", Law Society of Manitoba, CLE, September, 1998
• "Practical Advice to Credit in Bankruptcy Proceedings", Law Society of Manitoba, January, 1997
• "Investigating and Instigating Proceedings Against Dishonest Bankrupts", Law Society of Manitoba, April, 1995