Howard A. Gorman
Howard practises primarily in the areas of insolvency and restructuring and civil litigation. His practice has developed with emphasis in the areas of workout and recovery, insolvency, oil and gas and commercial disputes. Howard is the chairman of Macleod Dixon's insolvency/restructuring department.
Howard has acted on behalf of numerous secured and unsecured creditors, insolvent or financially challenged corporations and individuals and insolvency practitioners in their capacity as receivers, trustees and monitors. His practice has resulted in numerous reported appearances at the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and the Court of Appeal of Alberta, as well as the Bankruptcy Courts in Alberta, Ontario and other provinces throughout Canada.
- University of Alberta, LL.B. (dean’s list), 1985
- Alberta, 1986
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
- Member, the Turnaround Management Association
- Member, the Insolvency Institute of Canada
- Associate Member, International Energy Credit Association
- Lecturer and Author “Calpine: Cross Border Review and Approval of Inter-Debtor Claims”, Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference
- Moderator “Challenges and Opportunities in the Oil and Gas Industry”, Turnaround Management Association, Toronto Symposium
- Lecturer and Author "Interim Receivers & Novel and Traditional Applications", Canadian Institute
- Lecturer, "Lessons from Enron and Canadian Legal Update", International Energy Credit Association
- Lecture and Author, "International Insolvencies", Lorman Institute
- Lecturer and Author, "Lessons from Blue Range", International Energy Credit Association
- Co-Author, "Cross Border Restructuring is a First", The Lawyers Weekly
- Lecturer and Author, "Technical Update," Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association
- Lecturer and Author, "Interim Receivers & Novel and Traditional Applications," Canadian Institute
- Lecturer and Author, "Post-Mortem on Recent Canadian Business Failures," International Energy Credit Association
- Lecturer and Author, "Update on Insolvency Issues," Petroleum Accountants Society of Canada
- Lecturer and Co-Author, "The Recent Casualties of Volatile Gas Markets, and How to Avoid Becoming One," Insight Information Seminars
- Lecturer, "Monitoring," Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association
- Lecturer and Co-Author, "Environmental Liabilities of Lenders and Receivers," National Insolvency Conference
- Lecturer, "Oppression Remedies," Canadian Bar Association Business Law Section
- Lecturer and Author, "Recovery, Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Arrangements in Canada," presented to numerous financial Institutions and lenders in Canada and the United States
- Lecturer and Author, "Recent Judicial Developments of Interest to the International Energy Credit Association," International Energy Credit Association
- Moot Court Justice, University of Calgary Trial Advocacy Course
- Instructor, Creditor Rights, Alberta Bar Admissions Course
- Oral Examiner, Trustee Licensing Board
- Post Mortem on Recent Canadian Business Failures: Collections, Bankruptcy and Arrangements
- Author, Recovery, Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Arrangements in Canada
- Lessons from the Alberta Court of Appeal in the Blue Range Proceedings Presented to the International Energy Credit Association October 2000 Conference
- Counsel to ad hoc Committee of Calpine Canada Bondholders
- Counsel to the Monitor of Rancher’s Beef
- Counsel to Air Canada ad hoc Unsecured Creditors' Committee
- Chairman of the Creditors' Committee in the Blue Range Resources Corporation Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act restructuring
- Counsel to Bre-X Minerals Ltd. in their Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act filings
- Counsel to banks and other lenders and creditors in numerous Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and receivership proceedings
- Counsel to insolvency practitioners in their capacity as private or court appointed Receivers, Bankruptcy Trustees or Monitors
- Acted for Solv-Ex Corporation in their successful cross-border reorganization involving concurrent proceedings under the Canadian Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the American Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Code provisions
- Acted on behalf of numerous Enron Canada Corp. counterparties
- Acted on behalf of the Court appointed Receiver-Manager of a foreign immigrant investment fund
- Acted on behalf of the "white knight" in a successful restructuring of a distillery
- Acted on behalf of major shareholder and ultimate purchaser of a transportation company in a successful CCAA restructuring
- Designated as a "Leading Practitioner", 2008 Lexpert/ALM 500
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2007
- “Most Frequently Recommended” in Lexpert Directory
- Recommended “PLC Which Lawyer”
- Chambers Global, Second Highest Ranking
- Past President, PALS (Pet Access League Society)
- Board Member, Agape Hospice
- Member, Les Marmitons
