Jonathan Bourchier

First Year of Call
Alberta Bar (2009)

Areas of Practice
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Description
Jon’s practice focuses primarily on complex commercial disputes.

Jon has significant experience in a broad range of areas including, for example, secured lending enforcement and restructuring, oil and gas litigation, construction litigation, foreclosures and collections, employment issues, shareholder oppression actions, insurance coverage claims and representing individual litigants in debt, estate and damage claims. Jon represents leading companies throughout Western Canada at all levels of the dispute process, including in Chambers and through private mediations and arbitrations. His focus is on reaching successful resolutions to his clients’ issues efficiently and with creative problem solving.

Jon acts for leading companies on issues related to service and supply contracts; allegations of negligence and faulty workmanship; royalty, net profit interest, farmout and pooling agreements; environmental contamination; crop loss claims; joint venture and joint operating agreements; seismic data; distribution and licensing agreements; mortgages (commercial and residential); commercial leases; shareholder rights; property taxes; and fraud, conspiracy and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Jon has extensive knowledge of the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act and related matters and is often retained due to his practical understanding of the development of real property projects and related issues.

Jon actively volunteers his time in the community, and in 2013 he helped establish and organize the King’s Bench Amicus Project (then the Queen’s Bench Amicus Project), a pro bono project that helps unrepresented and disadvantaged litigants in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta.