Peter Rubin > Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP > Vancouver, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
595 BURRARD STREET, PO BOX 49314, SUITE 2600
THREE BENTALL CENTRE
VANCOUVER, BC V7X 1L3
Canada

Work Department

Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Restructuring & Insolvency

Position

Peter practice focuses on restructuring and insolvency and complex commercial litigation matters. His R&I practice involves advising debtor companies, lender syndicates, secured and unsecured creditors, purchasers of distressed assets, debtor-in-possession lenders, and other parties affected by business insolvency issues. He has acted as independent counsel for monitors in reorganization cases, receivers and trustees in bankruptcy. Peter’s commercial litigation practice focuses on contractual disputes, tax appeals, tort claims, shareholder and securities litigation, equitable remedies, including fiduciary duties and creditors’ rights.

Peter has co-authored Continuing Legal Education (CLE) papers, frequently appears as a lecturer at insolvency conferences, and is a contributing author to a comprehensive text on government liability. He is also a regular guest lecturer at the Law Society’s professional legal training course.

Career

Peter’s practice is national in scope. His commercial litigation practice has involved appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Tax Court of Canada, and numerous administrative tribunals, arbitrators and mediators. Separately, he has acted as debtor counsel, counsel to secured creditors and court officer’s counsel in many of Canada’s largest insolvency files. In addition to appearing on insolvency matters in all levels of Court in British Columbia, Peter frequently appears in Ontario and Alberta on restructuring matters.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Restructuring and insolvency

(Leading partners)

Peter RubinBlake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The practice at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acts for debtors, court officers and secured lenders on a range of restructuring and insolvency mandates. The team has notable expertise in the financial services, mining, cannabis, real estate and energy segments. The department is directed by Calgary-based Kelly Bourassa and Toronto-based Linc Rogers. Bourassa handles in-court and out-of-court matters for major public companies, and Rogers regularly assists foreign-based lenders, corporations and private equity and hedge funds with restructurings, distressed acquisitions and distressed financings. Additional key contacts at the Toronto office include Pamela HuffChris Burr and Caitlin McIntyre, who handles insolvency litigation, financial restructurings and debt enforcement. Vancouver-based Peter Rubin has experience acting as independent counsel for monitors in reorganization cases.

Canada > Dispute resolution: British Columbia

(Leading partners)

Peter RubinBlake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The disputes capabilities of the practice at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP encompass commercial and securities litigation, as well as class action defence and arbitration. The practice is co-led by Joe McArthur KC, who specializes in representing mining, infrastructure, utilities, financial services and tech companies in commercial litigation and arbitration; and Robin Reinertson, who is well-versed in class action defence and product liability, consumer protection and competition litigation. Additional key contacts include Sean Boyle, who handles securities class actions, regulatory investigations and proceedings and capital markets litigation; Roy Millen (public and administrative law); Alexandra Luchenko (regulatory compliance, transactional litigation and crisis management); Peter Rubin (contractual disputes, tax appeals, tort claims, shareholder and securities litigation); and Laura Cundari (litigation and arbitration involving the energy, mining, cannabis and infrastructure sectors).