Cody G. Reedman
Founder & Managing Lawyer
*practicing through Cody Reedman Law Corporation
Cody G. Reedman is the founder and managing lawyer of Reedman Law, a Vancouver boutique focused on insolvency and restructuring, insolvency litigation, estate litigation and financial distress disputes.
He acts for individuals, companies, non-profit societies, directors, officers, Licensed Insolvency Trustees, executors, administrators, receivers, and select lenders in matters involving bankruptcy, restructurings, creditor disputes, contested discharges, enforcement proceedings, estate disputes, and other litigation arising from financial distress. His practice is concentrated on files where insolvency law, commercial litigation, fiduciary obligations, fraud, tax debt, or enforcement risk overlap.
Cody’s work regularly involves bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, debtor-creditor litigation, civil fraud claims, tracing and asset recovery, judgment enforcement, director and officer liability, fiduciary disputes, and proceedings involving financially distressed businesses and individuals. He also has a particular interest in estate and trust disputes where insolvency, creditor claims, misuse of funds, beneficiary conflicts, or allegations of misconduct affect an estate or fiduciary relationship. This includes work involving insolvent and financially distressed estates, where estate administration, litigation, creditor priorities, and beneficiary rights intersect.
In addition to his litigation practice, Cody advises on workouts, forbearance arrangements, distressed transactions, secured lending disputes, foreclosure and enforcement proceedings, and other issues that arise when businesses or individuals are under financial pressure, facing financial distress, or confronting a potential insolvency or business failure. He acts for borrowers, guarantors, insolvency stakeholders, and select lenders in matters involving enforcement strategy, realization on security, guarantees, priority disputes, and court proceedings arising from credit relationships.
Cody also regularly acts in matters involving tax debt, CRA enforcement, and insolvency-related tax issues. He is frequently retained where tax liabilities intersect with bankruptcy, restructuring, discharge applications, director liability, CRA collections and enforcement proceedings, transfers coming under s. 160 of the Income Tax Act and other enforcement and collections disputes involving the Canada Revenue Agency.
For select clients, Cody also serves as external legal counsel in relation to financial distress, insolvency exposure, fiduciary risk, governance matters, regulatory issues, tax debt, and business disputes. In those mandates, he provides focused strategic advice to business owners, professionals, fiduciaries, and management teams who require legal counsel and judgment in difficult situations without maintaining full-time in-house legal capacity.
Cody also has experience in cross-border insolvency and international enforcement matters, including proceedings under Part XIII of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. He acted in British Columbia in the Nishiyama matter, a multijurisdictional bankruptcy and asset-recovery proceeding involving approximately $475 million (Canadian) in unpaid Japanese judgments, involving parallel proceedings in Hong Kong and Singapore, assets in multiple jurisdictions, and a court-appointed receiver over assets in British Columbia. He has also served as local counsel in British Columbia in support of foreign bankruptcy proceedings, foreign judgment enforcement, and related cross-border disputes.
Cody also accepts select mandates involving regulatory investigations, enforcement and regulatory collections proceedings, criminal proceedings related to bankruptcy offences, insolvency-related investigations, and civil forfeiture proceedings. This includes matters involving the British Columbia and Alberta Securities Commission, US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, the Canada Revenue Agency, the BC Financial Services Authority, the Director of Civil Forfeiture, and the Law Society of British Columbia.
Cody has acted as counsel in two Supreme Court of Canada decisions: Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2024 SCC 28, a landmark decision at the intersection of securities regulation and bankruptcy law addressing whether administrative monetary penalties and disgorgement orders survive a discharge from bankruptcy; and Piekut v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue), 2025 SCC 13, which resolved a longstanding split in appellate authority across the country concerning the timing for the discharge of government student loan debt in bankruptcy.
He has appeared at all levels of court in British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon, with more than 50 reported decisions across insolvency, foreclosure, fraud, and commercial disputes.
Cody is currently completing an LL.M. in Financial Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He also holds the TEP designation from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and has completed additional training in fraud investigation and mediation. He is admitted to practise in British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon.
Education and Bar Admissions
Bar Admissions​
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Admitted to the Law Society of British Columbia (2016)
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Admitted to the Law Society of the Yukon (2020)
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Admitted to the Law Society of Alberta (2021)
Education
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Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (LLM - Financial Law - part-time - in progress commencing Sept 2024 and anticipated completion 2026)
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Society of Trust and Estate Practitioner (STEP) Diploma program (2022)
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British Columbia Institute of Technology (Graduate Certificate (with distinction), Forensic Investigation of Fraud and Financial Crime, 2018
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CLE BC, Fundamentals of Mediation and Mediation Level 2 (2018)
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University of Victoria (Juris Doctor, 2014)
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University of British Columbia (Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, 2011)
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Capilano University (General Studies Diploma, 2009)
Memberships & Designations
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Trust and Estate Practicioner (TEP) Designation (March 2023)
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Member of the Vancouver Insolvency Discussion Group
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BC Trial Lawyers Association
Reported Decisions
Supreme Court of Canada Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2024 SCC 28 Piekut v. Canada (National Revenue), 2025 SCC 13 British Columbia Court of Appeal​ Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2021 BCCA 224 Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2021 BCCA 417 Piekut v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue), 2022 BCCA 50 Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2022 BCCA 274 Piekut v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue), 2023 BCCA 181 ​British Columbia Supreme Court (arranged chronologically from latest to earliest)​​​ Jerry Brar Mortgages Inc. v Schuetz, 2025 BCSC 62 Wood v Bevan, 2024 BCSC 1401 Thompson (Re), 2024 BCSC 927 Jardine (Re), 2023 BCSC 1665 Nguyen (Re), 2023 BCSC 1611 Locke (Re), 2023 BCSC 1195 Green (Re), 2023 BCSC 728 Kirschner v Moore, 2023 BCSC 450 Thrush (Re), 2023 BCSC 413 Smith (Re), 2022 BCSC 1497 Summit Leasing Corporation v Ali, 2022 BCSC 1429 Metropointe Mortgage Investment Corporation v Patry, 2022 BCSC 1439 Nishiyama (Re), 2022 BCSC 938 Metropointe Mortgage Investment Corporation v Patry, 2022 BCSC 955 Metropointe Mortgage Investment Corporation v Patry, 2022 BCSC 251 Green (Re), 2022 BCSC 588 McGoran (Re), 2022 BCSC 8 Piekut (Re), 2021 BCSC 1883 Hanlon (Re), 2021 BCSC 1348 Hooper (Re), 2021 BCSC 878 Hanlon (Re), 2021 BCSC 800 Poonian (Re), 2021 BCSC 555 Poonian (Re), 2021 BCSC 222 Burgess (Re), 2021 BCSC 120 Hanlon (Re), 2021 BCSC 40 Sellathamby (Re), 2020 BCSC 1567 Poonian (Re), 2020 BCSC 547 Nishiyama (Re), 2020 BCSC 551 Nishiyama (Re), 2020 BCSC 224 Sellathamby (Re), 2019 BCSC 2061 McKibbon (Re), 2019 BCSC 848 Nelson v Mallais, 2019 BCSC 130 Canada (Attorney General) v Nichols, 2018 BCSC 1185 ​​Alberta Court of King's Bench Nientyas (Re), 2024 ABKB 294 Metanczuk (Re), 2024 ABKB 270 ​ Yukon Supreme Court Kielb (Re), 2023 YKSC 36 ​​Administrative Tribunals Richard Pemble, 2025 BCEST 2 Capt’n Crunch Holdings Ltd., 2025 BCEST 1 Re Smillie, 2024 BCSECCOM 496 Re Smillie, 2024 BCSECCOM 348 Edmonds v. GFC Communications Inc. dba Angel Answering Service, 2023 BCHRT 212 Umolo v. Shoppers Drug Mart and others, 2021 BCHRT 166 Viitre v. BCSPCA, May 18, 2018 (BC Farm Industry Review Board) - Our firm acted for a complainant in an appeal of an SPCA decision to refuse to return a seized animal to the owner Lapidus v. Pioneer Park Co-operative Housing Association and others, 2018 BCHRT 28 (Human Rights Tribunal) Belacosta Investments Ltd. v. (redacted) (Residential Tenancy Branch) Feb 18, 2018 (Decision 6224)
Publications & Presentations
Co-presenter on panel Proactively Protect Your Assets Going Forward, Offshore Disputes Week 2025, Cayman Islands Contributing author to update Chapter 11 - Consumer Bankruptcy - Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law in Canada: Cases, Materials, and Problems, Jassmine Girgis, Alfonso Nocilla and Virginia Torrie (eds.), Canadian Legal Information Institute, 2nd ed, 2024 CanLIIDocs 2221 Cody G Reedman, An Examination of COVID-19 Government Benefits and Loans in Consumer Insolvency Proceedings, 2023 21 Annual Review of Insolvency Law, 2023 CanLIIDocs 307 Presenter at the Vancouver Insolvency Discussion Group March 2024 Co-Presenter at Annual Review of Insolvency Law "The Not So Honest but Unfortunate Debtor" (February 2024) CAIRP Technical Forum Vancouver, Co-Presenter, Opposition to Debtor Discharges (May 2023) Cody Reedman, Government Student Loans- Multiple Date versus Single Date Approach: Goulding (Re): Banking and Finance Law Review (August 2020). Personal Bankruptcy and Discharge of Bankrupt (Continuing Legal Education Society, 2019, 2022, and 2024)