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Jason Dutrizac

Counsel

Ottawa
[email protected]
613.787.3535

Expertise

Wynne Bischoff

Practice Assistant

Ottawa
[email protected]
613.237.0234 x30258

Jason advises on shareholder disputes, investor fraud, insolvencies, restructurings and reorganizations.

Jason represents:

  • Receivers;
  • Trustees;
  • Monitors;
  • Inspectors;
  • Debtors;
  • Secured and unsecured creditors, including investor groups and financial institutions;
  • Shareholders; and
  • Commercial landlords and tenants.

Prior to joining BLG, Jason was litigation practice group leader at a national firm, and the founding partner of a commercial litigation boutique firm based in Ottawa/Toronto.

Experience

  • FirstOntario Credit Union Limited v. 54 Shepherd Road Inc. et al. Acted as representative counsel for investor group in a complex receivership involving a real estate development and syndicated mortgage holders from January 2020 to March 2021.
  • Gallagher et al. v. The Saint John County Condominium Corporation Number 13. Represented group of real estate investors in a multifaceted interim receivership, a bankruptcy proposal involving city bylaw infractions and the sale of property.
  • Juhasz v. Golden Oaks Enterprises Inc. Acted as counsel to the receiver in an elaborate rent-to-own residential real estate ponzi scheme. 
  • Bacic et al. v. Millennium Educational and Research Charitable Foundation et al. Acted for court-appointed inspector, interim receiver, receiver and trustee in a cross border investor fraud matter.

Beyond Our Walls

Community Involvement

  • Current Student Ambassador, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2004
  • Hons BA, Mount Allison University, 1999
  • Certificates in Advanced Negotiations and Mediation, Harvard Law School, 2007
  • LLM candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, anticipated 2022
  • JD, University of Windsor, 2003