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About
Provided by Peter Rubin
Practice Areas
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.
Career
Peter’s practice is national in scope. His commercial litigation practice has involved appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada, all courts in British Columbia, the Federal Courts, 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.
Publications
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.