Practice

Howard Gorman is a partner at Macleod Dixon LLP and practises primarily in the areas of insolvency and civil litigation. Howard is the Chairman of Macleod Dixon LLP's Insolvency and Restructuring Practice Group. Howard practices out of Macleod Dixon LLP's Calgary office. Macleod Dixon LLP also has offices in Toronto, Moscow, Almaty, Caracas and Rio de Janeiro.

His practice has developed with emphasis in the areas of workout and recovery, insolvency, oil and gas and commercial disputes. 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 litigation practice has resulted in numerous appearances at the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and the Court of Appeal of Alberta, as well as the Bankruptcy Courts in Alberta, and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Howard has been involved in numerous significant restructurings or receiverships including acting for the Air Canada and Blue Range Resource Corporation Creditors' Committees, for Bre-X Minerals, Solvex Corporation and Highwood Distillers as debtors; for significant creditors in the Enron Canada, Merit Energy, Mirant Corporation and Liberty Oil and Gas insolvencies and the Receivers or Monitors in First Mortgage Alberta Funds, Hurricane Hydrocarbons, Palliser Grain and Promax Energy receiverships or restructurings.

Professional Involvement

Howard is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Calgary Bar Association, the International Bar Association, Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Section, the Turnaround Management Association and is an associate member of the International Energy Credit Association.

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, “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

Professional Affiliation and Recognition

Law Society of Alberta, 1986

Education

LL.B. (Dean's List) 1985, University of Alberta

Other Interests

Past President, PALS (Pet Access League Society)

Participant Jasper to Calgary Bike Ride for Kids

Golf, Cycling, Family