Haddon Murray
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.Partner at Gowling WLG
- Called to the bar
- 2012
- Languages
- English
Civil Litigation & Dispute ResolutionCivil Litigation & Dispute ResolutionAbout Haddon Murray
Haddon Murray is a Toronto partner at Gowling WLG whose work sits where commercial litigation meets restructuring and insolvency. As one of the main litigators in the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency Group, Haddon steps in when creditor enforcement or a restructuring turns into a fight, acting for banks and credit unions, for court officers, and for debtor companies and their directors. Stakeholders of every kind also come to Haddon for advice on insolvency proceedings, whether those are formal or informal.
Called to the Ontario bar in 2012, Haddon has appeared a great deal before the Ontario Court of Appeal and on the Commercial List of the Superior Court of Justice. That courtroom work has reached the Supreme Court of Canada too, where Haddon has represented the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals as an intervener. Not every dispute ends up in court, though: Haddon has plenty of experience guiding clients through private arbitration and mediation as well.
Clients come from fields like logistics, infrastructure and financial services. Whatever the industry, Haddon's goal is to resolve each dispute in a way that lines up with where the client wants to be over the long term. Haddon is a past chair of the Ontario Bar Association's Insolvency Law Section and has written for CAIRP's Rebuilding Success magazine. Away from the office, Haddon was once a keen rugby player, though a surgeon has since been quite firm that those playing days are over.
Practice areas
Complex commercial disputes
Haddon's commercial cases range from contract and oppression claims to P3 arbitrations, and also take in professional negligence matters and class proceedings.
Contested CCAA and receivership work
In contested insolvency files, Haddon handles CCAA applications, including filings started by creditors and clashes between a CCAA application and a receivership application. Fights over priority, motions to approve DIP financing and claims processes are part of the same practice.
Cross-border insolvency
Haddon takes on cross-border insolvency matters, including recognition proceedings under Part IV of the CCAA. That work has included acting for Colt Holding Company LLC in Canadian proceedings recognizing U.S. Chapter 11 orders, and serving as Canadian counsel to the Aeropostale group alongside its U.S. Chapter 11 case.
Monitors, receivers, lenders and debtors
Haddon has acted for the Monitor in the Essar Algoma CCAA proceedings, for Bank of Montreal as agent for a lending syndicate enforcing loans to Thane International Inc., and for BlueTree Advisors II Inc. as court-appointed receiver restructuring the Durham College and UOIT student association. On the debtor side, Haddon represented the FirstOnSite companies in CCAA proceedings that involved selling substantially all of their assets to a subsidiary of Delos Capital.
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Education & credentials
- LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School (2017)
- JD, University of Toronto (2011)
- BSc (Hons.), Queen's University (2007)
- Called to the Bar of Ontario (2012)
Notable cases
- Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), SCC docket 40396 (on appeal from 2022 BCCA 274)
Haddon Murray, with Heather Fisher and James Aston of Gowling WLG, represented the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals as an intervener, and Haddon presented its oral argument. The majority decided that a bankrupt's discharge releases administrative monetary penalties while disgorgement orders are not released, and the appeal was allowed in part, without costs.
- Piekut v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue), SCC docket 40782 (on appeal from 2023 BCCA 181)
Haddon Murray was counsel, with Heather Fisher and James Aston of Gowling WLG, for the intervener Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals. The appellant wanted a student loan debt wiped out by way of a proposal, and the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal in April 2025.
Decisions where Haddon Murray appeared as counsel, from public court records. Past cases don't predict future results.
Publications & speaking
- Poonian v. BC Securities Commission: Supreme Court holds that Administrative Disgorgement Orders Survive Bankruptcy but Administrative Monetary Penalties Do Not (with Heather Fisher and James Aston), CAIRP, Rebuilding Success magazine, Fall/Winter 2024 (2024)
Memberships & affiliations
- Ontario Bar Association, Insolvency Law Section: Haddon Murray sits on the section's executive as past chair.
- The Advocates' Society: Haddon Murray is a member of The Advocates' Society.
- Turnaround Management Association: Haddon Murray is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.
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