Practice Areas
Renee’s practice focuses on corporate commercial litigation areas, including banking litigation, securities litigation, class action litigation, shareholder disputes and oppression actions, oil and gas litigation, negligence and contract disputes, employment matters, land development disputes, IP litigation, defamation and environmental litigation. She also routinely acts on matters involving fraud and reputational risk. Renee is counsel for clients experiencing a data breach or cybersecurity incident.
Renee has extensive experience in litigating and advising clients in the oil and gas, energy and financial services industry, including major banks and investment dealers.
Renee has been counsel at trial, chambers and on appeal in Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, appellate counsel at both the Alberta and British Columbia Courts of Appeal, has appeared as counsel before the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada.
She has also represented parties before administrative, regulatory and disciplinary tribunals, including the Alberta Securities Commission, the British Columbia Securities Commission and CIRO, as well as at arbitrations and mediations.
Renee successfully represented QMUNITY and the Skipping Stone Foundation as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada in an anti-SLAPP and the public interest in speech that counters discrimination against vulnerable groups case (reported at Hansman v. Neufeld, 2023 SCC 14).
