David W Mann KC

Practice Areas

David Mann is a partner with Dentons. David has over twenty-five years of experience in the insolvency area. He is the National Lead and the Calgary Chair of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group.

David has extensive experience in insolvency matters, having appeared regularly before Alberta’s Bankruptcy Court and Court of Appeal, as well as having made submissions to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. David has acted for lenders, debtors, receivers/trustees, creditors/counterparties, DIP financiers, and acquisitors in a variety of insolvency proceedings, including Principal Group, Solvex, Smoky River Coal, Air Canada, Crafts Canada, Blue Range Resources, Gauntlet Energy, Sanjel Corporation, Enron, Wilson Auto Electric, Maple Leaf Distillers/Protos, GasFrac and SemGroup.

David has also had extensive involvement with financial/derivative contracts in such insolvency proceedings as NESI, Enron, Blue Range Resources, Air Canada, and Androscoggin.

Career

Called to the bar: Alberta, 1990

Professional Memberships

The Insolvency Institute of Canada; Canadian Bar Association; Calgary Bar Association; Past President of the CBA’s South Alberta Insolvency Section.