Vanessa Reakes

Vanessa is highly regarded for her advice and advocacy in complex commercial, professional indemnity, property, products liability, personal injury, and regulatory disputes. She has developed a practice catering to regulated and highly specialized industries including insurance, construction, engineering, architecture, finance, aviation, and manufacturing. Vanessa regularly appears at all levels of the Canadian courts and within regulatory, administrative and alternative dispute resolution forums. In addition to her defence practice, Vanessa frequently acts on behalf of international and domestic insurers as coverage and monitoring counsel in high-value corporate governance disputes, representing directors, officers and professional managers where claims of breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and usurping of corporate opportunities are alleged.