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, Cody has argued twice before the Supreme Court of Canada. In Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2024 SCC 28, the Court decided whether financial sanctions imposed by provincial securities regulators survive bankruptcy. In Piekut v. Canada (National Revenue), 2025 SCC 13, it resolved a longstanding appellate split over when student loans are automatically released by a discharge. He has more than fifty reported decisions across British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon. 

His insolvency practice covers the full arc of financial distress: advising directors of companies in trouble, acting in receiverships, CCAA and proposal proceedings, negotiating workouts and forbearance agreements, and representing Licensed Insolvency Trustees, receivers, and individuals in bankruptcy and applications for discharge from bankruptcy or proposal proceedings. In foreclosure matters, he acts for borrowers, guarantors, and lenders in foreclosures, realization on security, and the priority disputes that follow defaulted lending.

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His litigation practice runs through the same terrain: insolvency litigation with an emphasis on fraud and fiduciary disputes, judgment enforcement, director and officer liability, and cross-border recognition proceedings under Part XIII of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.​

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As a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP), Cody also acts in estate disputes, insolvent estates, and the trust and fiduciary issues that run through insolvency and fraud: assets said to be held in trust and placed beyond creditors' reach, 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 section 160 of the Income Tax Act.

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In addition to his insolvency and litigation practice, he maintains a secured lending and opinions practice, approaching security from the perspective of a litigator and insolvency lawyer. Because Reedman Law does not act for institutional lenders, he provides independent 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. Other lawyers, accountants, and insolvency professionals also retain him as insolvency counsel on distressed transactions, including 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 risks before they close.

He works with family law counsel in the same way, advising where insolvency and family breakdown intersect: separation agreements and property division involving an insolvent or at-risk spouse, the treatment of support and equalization claims in bankruptcy, and family law proceedings complicated by a bankruptcy, proposal, or creditor claims, including ensuring that agreements are structured to withstand later scrutiny by a trustee or creditor.

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Cody received his BA in Philosophy from UBC, 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.

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