Known for her highly personable and practical approach, Lyndsey is a skilled litigator who achieves efficient and business-minded resolutions for clients.

Lyndsey is a partner in our Litigation Group in Calgary.

Her practice is focused on representing companies in complex arbitral or litigation proceedings, primarily in the energy and construction industries, as well as in the agribusiness, retail and consumer products sectors. Lyndsey is an experienced advocate who understands her clients’ businesses and the importance of finding strategic solutions to challenging commercial problems.

Corporate / Commercial

Lyndsey’s representative experience includes:

• representing an international energy company in an arbitration regarding a complex chemical pricing contract;
• defending a midstream company in relation to a $1B claim relating to a product supply agreement for natural gas and NGLs;
• advancing a claim on behalf of an oil and gas exploration company against its former officers with respect to the misappropriation of corporate funds;
• advancing an oppression claim on behalf of the minority shareholder of an energy exploration company;
• defending a director of an investment firm against claims of breach of fiduciary duty;
• defending a multi-national energy company in an arbitral dispute regarding the allocation of costs relating to the operation of a gas plant;
• acting for a multi-national energy company with respect to its claims of misappropriation, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and conspiracy against certain former employees with respect to an invoicing scheme designed to exceed or circumvent the former employees’ signing authority;

Construction / Infrastructure

• defending a real estate developer in an arbitration brought by a construction manager in relation to the construction of an industrial warehouse;
• advancing a claim against a builder/developer on behalf of a condo corporation with respect to a faulty building envelope;
• counsel to an international oil company with respect to a dispute involving an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a gas conditioning plant;

Agribusiness / Retail / Consumer Products

• representing the developers of seed and crop protection products with respect to data compensation matters for pesticide registrations;
• counsel for a major cannabis producer and retailer with respect to various disputes regarding genetics and supply agreements;
• counsel for the manufacturer of consumer packaged goods (CPG) in relation to various disputes regarding intellectual property rights and supply agreements;
• litigation counsel for a privately held organic food company in its acquisition by an international nutritional food products company;
• counsel to a whole-farm risk management provider with respect to various coverage disputes; and
• acting for a distributor in a claim against a manufacturer in relation to a faulty and defective product.

Background, Community Involvement & Education

Lyndsey is a born and raised Calgarian. She received her BA in Psychology (graduating with Great Distinction) from Trinity Western University, and obtained a Certificate in Leadership and Applied Public Affairs from the Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa.

Lyndsey earned her JD from the University of Victoria. While at UVic, Lyndsey served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the UVic Law Journal Appeal: Review of Current Law & Law Reform; a member of the UVic Bowman Tax Moot Team; President of the UVic Poverty Law Club; a volunteer with the UVic Legal Information Clinic; and the Student Member of the UVic Faculty of Law Appointments Advisory Committee.

Since 2016, Lyndsey has served on the national pro bono committee at McCarthy Tétrault LLP which helps oversee the approximately 10,000 hours per year of pro bono services that the firm’s lawyers provide to the community.

Lyndsey deeply values the opportunity to contribute to her broader community. Her past and present volunteer activities include:

• acting as the supervising lawyer for the Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) Indigenous Youth Outreach Project, which delivers a mock trial program to Siksika First Nation students;
• volunteering with and advancing pro bono mandates for the John Howard Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing crime and improving the justice system;
• volunteering with Step by Step, a charitable organization that provides early childhood education as well as therapeutic and family supports for developmentally delayed and disabled children and their families;
• serving on the marketing committee of the Children’s Legal and Educational Resource Centre Society (CLERC); and
• volunteering with the Civil Claims Duty Counsel Project and King’s Bench Amicus Project, which provide pro bono legal advice to unrepresented litigants in the Alberta courts.

Lyndsey is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association.