Paul Chiswell

Paul's practice focuses on complex, high-stakes corporate and commercial litigation. He has appeared before trial and appellate courts in Alberta and the Supreme Court of Canada, and other tribunals, including the Alberta Securities Commission and the Law Society of Alberta.

Paul's focus is on:

Corporate litigation
Broad experience representing shareholders, directors and officers in corporate disputes and oppression actions, including matters involving breaches of shareholder agreements, breaches of fiduciary duties, taking of corporate opportunities and share valuations.

Securities litigation
Experience acting for and against investment advisors and dealers, and defending companies and individuals in Canadian Securities Commission investigations and hearings.

Energy litigation
Extensive experience litigating oil and gas and electrical industry disputes of all types.

Class actions
Experience acting on behalf of plaintiffs in investor and product liability class proceedings.

• Cenovus Energy hostile takeover of MEG Energy – Counsel to MEG Energy Corp. and its board of directors in its $8.6 billion acquisition by Cenovus Energy, which closed on November 13, 2025, following an unsolicited take‑over bid from Strathcona Resources and a strategic review process.
  
  
• Certification of national class action – Successfully obtained certification in British Columbia of a national class action against manufacturers of natural health supplements and Court approval of a settlement against another manufacturer. (Krishnan v Jamieson Laboratories Inc., 2021 BCSC 1396, 2021 BCSC 1425, 2021 BCSC 2127, 2023 BCCA 72, leave to appeal to SCC denied).
  
  
• Precedent-setting securities law decision – Successfully represented Inter Pipeline Ltd. (IPL) in a precedent-setting case before the Alberta Securities Commission addressing Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.'s use of total return swaps in its takeover bid of IPL, the first Canadian regulatory decision interpreting total return swaps under the amended takeover bid regime. (Re Bison Acquisition Corp., 2021 ABASC 100).

• Appellate
• Arbitration
• Class action
• Commercial
• Commercial disputes
• Dispute resolution
• Energy and construction
• Government and regulatory
• Plaintiff
• Product liability and recall
• Securities
• Tax disputes

• Banking
• Energy
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Utilities

• Bachelor of Civil Law (with Distinction), University of Oxford, 2012
• Bachelor of Laws (with Distinction and Silver Medal in Law), University of Alberta, 2010
• Bachelor of Commerce (with Distinction), University of Alberta, 2007

• Law Society of Alberta
• Canadian Bar Association
• Calgary Bar Association
• Advocates' Society
• Litigation Counsel of America

• Alberta, 2011