Gordon B. Brandt,

Gordon practices civil and commercial litigation with focuses in shareholder and partnership disputes, pension and benefits litigation, and administrative law. Gordon has appeared as lead counsel before the British Columbia Court of Appeal and regularly appears in the British Columbia Supreme Court. Gordon has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada.
Prior to joining Lawson Lundell, Gordon interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at a Hague-based international criminal tribunal and completed a clerkship with the British Columbia Supreme Court.

• Canadian Bar Association, Member

• Best Lawyers in Canada 2021-2024: recognized in Corporate and Commercial Litigation

• Successfully established the rights of approximately 7,000 members of the Union of British Columbia Performers/ACTRA to increased choice in their selection of health benefit providers. (Union of British Columbia Performers v. Morton, 2023 BCCA 57)
• Successfully upheld an employers’ interpretation of its supplemental executive pension scheme (Robinson v. Canfor Pulp, 2023 BCSC 581)
• Successfully upheld a public sector pension plan’s mandatory enrollment provisions (Zazkis v. Simon Fraser University, 2022 BCSC 1741)
• Successfully defeated former shareholder’s claim for immediate payment of shareholder loan in the context of ongoing oppression proceedings (Quartet Forest Investments Corporation v. Mackenzie Fibre Management Corporation, 2022 BCSC 1354)
• Successfully defeated an appeal and established crown immunity from the application of GST for pooled investment portfolios used to fund certain public sector pension plans (British Columbia Investment Management Corporation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 SCC 63; 2018 BCCA 47)
• Successfully defeated an application for certification of a proposed consumer class action relating to claims of unjust enrichment, unconscionability, criminal interest and deceptive practices with respect to violation notices issued for parking vehicles in private parking lots without a valid prepaid parking ticket (Webster et al v. Robbins Parking Service Ltd. and Imperial Parking Canada Corporation, 2016 BCSC 1863)
• Represented a forest company in the successful settlement of a class action concerning reductions to post-retirement health benefits (Dyer v. Weyerhaeuser Co. Ltd., BCSC, Sept 12, 2014)
• Successfully defended a pension plan administrator in proceedings before the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging discrimination in the administration of the plan