Brendan MacArthur-Stevens

Brendan specializes in complex commercial disputes, deal litigation, and public law matters. He has significant trial, appellate litigation, and arbitration experience across a variety of industries and practice areas, including transportation (air and rail), large infrastructure projects and construction, energy, insurance, procurement, administrative law, and constitutional law.

Brendan has appeared before the Alberta Court of King's Bench, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal of Alberta, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as many arbitral tribunals in both international and domestic arbitrations.

He also teaches Administrative Law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law and is part of Avenue Calgary Magazine's Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2022. In 2025, Brendan was named one of the 20 “Changemakers” in Canada by The Globe and Mail and was recognized as an Emerging Talent Litigator of the Year by a leading lawyer ranking agency.

Before joining Blakes, Brendan clerked for the judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and then the Honourable Justice Andromache Karakatsanis of the Supreme Court of Canada.