Cody Reedman is the founder and principal of Reedman Law, a Vancouver boutique practising insolvency, restructuring, and commercial litigation.
 

Called to the bar in 2016, he has argued twice before the Supreme Court of Canada, both times as lead counsel for the appellant, on cases carried from first instance. In Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2024 SCC 28, the Court decided whether financial sanctions imposed by provincial securities regulators survive bankruptcy; the appeal was allowed in part. In Piekut v. Canada (National Revenue), 2025 SCC 13, the Court resolved a longstanding appellate split over when government student loans are released on a discharge from bankruptcy.

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He has more than fifty-five reported decisions across British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon, and has appeared at every level of court in British Columbia.

Insolvency and restructuring

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Cody acts for debtors, creditors, guarantors, directors, Licensed Insolvency Trustees, receivers, and proposal trustees. The work runs from advising directors of companies in difficulty and negotiating workouts and forbearance, through receiverships, proposals, and CCAA proceedings, to bankruptcy and applications for discharge. In foreclosure matters he acts for borrowers, guarantors, and lenders in realization on security and the priority disputes that follow a default.

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Much of his work has been on the defence side of enforcement: for a respondent before a panel of the British Columbia Securities Commission involving fraud allegations where $26 million in financial sanctions was sought; acting as local counsel for a debtor facing $477 million in recognized Japanese judgments, with a receiver appointed over assets in four jurisdictions; and for debtors resisting a receivership application over more than $24 million of secured debt to a financial institution.

He also enforces the same remedies from the creditor side, acting for creditors, trustees, and receivers in oppositions to discharge, judgment enforcement, and the recovery of assets that have been moved or concealed: tracing claims, freezing and disclosure orders, and investigative receiverships.

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Fraud recovery, tracing, and judgment enforcement

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Cody acts for debtors, creditors, trustees, and receivers in fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation, judgment enforcement, oppositions to discharge, and the recovery of assets that have been moved, concealed, or put beyond the reach of those entitled to them. The work draws on both civil fraud and insolvency remedies: tracing and trust claims, freezing orders (Mareva Injunctions) and third party production orders (Norwich), examinations in aid of execution, and investigative and equitable-execution receiverships appointed to locate and realize on hidden assets, together with the statutory claims that unwind transactions designed to defeat creditors.

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Security opinions

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Reedman Law does not act for institutional lenders. That independence lets Cody provide opinions on the validity and enforceability of security for receivers, Licensed Insolvency Trustees, and proposal trustees; pre-enforcement reviews for lenders; and loan, guarantee, and security reviews for borrowers and guarantors free of the conflicts that come with a standing lender relationship.

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Lawyers, accountants, and insolvency professionals also retain him as insolvency counsel on distressed transactions: purchases from receivers and trustees, dealings with financially troubled counterparties, and transactions that need to be assessed for preference, transfer-at-undervalue, and fraudulent conveyance risk before closing.

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Estates, trusts, and family breakdown

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As a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP), Cody acts in estate disputes, insolvent estates, and the trust and fiduciary questions that arise in insolvency and fraud: assets said to be held in trust and placed beyond the reach of creditors, breach of fiduciary duty, and transfers attacked by creditors, receivers, and trustees in bankruptcy  including fraudulent conveyances, preferences, transfers at undervalue, and CRA assessments under s. 160 of the Income Tax Act.

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Where insolvency and family breakdown overlap, he acts for individuals whose separation is complicated by financial distress, and works with family law counsel on the treatment of support and family property claims in bankruptcy, the structuring of separation agreements to withstand later scrutiny by a trustee or creditor, and family proceedings interrupted by a bankruptcy, proposal, or creditor enforcement.

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Cross-border work

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Cody acts in cross-border recognition proceedings under Part XIII of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, including the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and foreign insolvency proceedings in British Columbia.

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Cody received his BA in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia and his JD from the University of Victoria, and is completing an LL.M. in Financial Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He was a contributing author to Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law in Canada (2nd ed.) and has published in the Annual Review of Insolvency Law and the Banking and Finance Law Review. He presents regularly to the insolvency and legal community, including for CAIRP, the Vancouver Insolvency Discussion Group, and CLE BC, and has presented internationally. He is called to the bar in British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon.

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He is called to the bar in British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon.