Danny Urquhart

Many of Danny’s clients are involved in contract or business disputes. These include shareholder oppression, director liability, and corporate governance matters. He has advised public, private, charitable and trust entities, as well as individual directors and officers.

Danny frequently acts for regulators and regulated persons. He has considerable experience before provincial securities commissions and the B.C. Financial Services Tribunal. He has also advised clients before agricultural marketing boards, environmental regulators, and professional regulators.

Danny’s experience includes Aboriginal, class action, competition, construction, fraud, insolvency, intellectual property, pension, product liability, real estate, and securities litigation.

Danny has acted in the following matters:

Commercial disputes:

• Counsel for a real estate investment and management firm in oppression and related proceedings concerning the ownership of commercial and residential properties in the Vancouver area
• Counsel for a Canadian financial institution in receivership proceedings involving high-risk industries
• Counsel for a Canadian cannabis company in a claim arising from share lock-up periods in a private placement transaction
• Counsel for a prominent mining consortium successfully defending a claim for an alleged finders fee in connection with a gold mining project in Ecuador
• Counsel for a European telecommunications company in a billion-dollar breach of contract and breach of confidence claim following an unsuccessful transaction
• Recent reported decisions include: 2024 BCCA 175, 2023 BCSC 363, 2022 BCSC 2148, 2022 BCSC 1416

Regulatory matters:

• Counsel for licensees, complainants and stakeholders in proceedings before environmental, health, financial, insurance, real estate, professional and agricultural regulators
• Counsel for a Canadian mining company in water and land use licence proceedings
• Counsel for a Canadian financial regulator in complex appeal proceedings related to novel applications of pension standards legislation
• Counsel for a Canadian financial regulator in appeal, judicial review and related civil proceedings
• Counsel for Canadian financial institutions, investment dealers, and brokers in regulatory proceedings and related civil actions
• Recent reported decisions include: 2023 BCSC 1150, 2023 BCFST 3

Class proceedings:

• Counsel for a prominent financial institution in a class action relating to management activity in the mutual fund industry
• Counsel for a Canadian engineering company in a billion-dollar secondary market securities class action involving allegations of bribery
• Counsel for pharmaceutical companies in product liability and securities class actions in respect to medical devices and products
• Recent reported decisions include: 2021 BCSC 837, 2021 BCSC 144.

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada (2023–2024: Corporate and Commercial Litigation)

• Member, The Advocates’ Society
• Member, Canadian Bar Association BC Branch