Brendan Van Niejenhuis

Brendan Van Niejenhuis practises litigation with a focus on regulatory/administrative law, intellectual property, commercial disputes, and class actions. He has often acted for public agencies, industry regulators, and discipline tribunals in difficult matters, as well as on behalf of First Nations interests. He is cross-appointed to the intellectual property boutique PCK IP as part of his intellectual property litigation work. He routinely argues matters before the various Ontario and federal courts as well as a wide variety of administrative tribunals and in private arbitrations. He has been repeatedly recognized as a leading counsel by Chambers Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada, and Benchmark Litigation and has been honoured with the Precedent-Setter Award and as a Lexpert Rising Star. He has taught administrative law as adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School since 2008. Prior to his litigation career, he served as a law clerk to former Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada.