Jack Maslen

Partner

Calgary
[email protected]
403.232.9790

Jack’s disputes practice focuses on insolvency and restructuring, debtor-creditor remedies, real estate, banking, fraud and energy matters. Jack advises companies, directors, shareholders, lenders and accounting professionals with respect to all aspects of restructuring and insolvency proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act both within Canada and on a cross-border basis.

Jack also has extensive experience in international commercial arbitration and has acted in UNCITRAL and ICC arbitrations. Prior to joining BLG, Jack worked internationally in Doha, Qatar and in London, U.K. and carried on an international arbitration practice.

Jack frequently appears before the Alberta Court of King’s Bench (Commercial List), and Canada’s other courts.

Jack provides legal services through a Law Corporation.

Experience

  • Lead counsel for a trustee in bankruptcy in contested litigation relating to transfers at undervalue.
  • Lead counsel for lenders in commercial foreclosure matters.
  • Co-counsel to the court-appointed monitor and receiver in the contentious insolvency proceedings of Accel Canada Holdings Limited and Accel Energy Canada Limited.

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Professional Involvement

  • Member, Law Society of Alberta
  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, Insolvency Section, Canadian Bar Association (Alberta)
  • Member, Calgary Bar Association

Bar Admission & Education

  • Alberta, 2015
  • Ontario, 2013
  • BCL, University of Oxford (distinction), 2017
  • JD, Queen's University, 2012
  • B.Comm., University of Calgary, 2009