Bradley Freedman is a National Leader of our Cybersecurity Law Group, Vancouver Regional Leader of our Technology Law Group, and a partner in our national Privacy and Data Protection, Intellectual Property and Information Technology groups. Bradley focuses his practice on technology, intellectual property, the Internet, electronic commerce, and related matters, and is recognized as a leading lawyer in these areas of law by the foremost legal rankings publications. Bradley advises clients in negotiating, structuring and documenting transactions and business arrangements, and acts as counsel in litigation, arbitration and mediation. He has appeared before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Trademarks Opposition Board, and international commercial arbitration tribunals.

Bradley is also a Domain-Name Dispute Arbitrator for both the World Intellectual Property Organization and the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre.

Katherine McNeill is an associate in the Corporate Commercial Group in our Vancouver office. Katherine's practice focuses on advising private businesses across a range of industries on corporate and commercial law matters. Katherine also works with clients on technology, privacy and related matters.

Ira Nishisato is a Litigation Partner based in Toronto and National Leader of BLG's Cybersecurity and Cyber-Risk Management Practice. A widely-recognized expert in civil litigation, Ira currently serves as Co-Chair of the Litigation Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). Ira's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, commercial fraud, intellectual property litigation, cybersecurity and information technology litigation, and international disputes and investigations. He has unique expertise in extraordinary remedies including Anton Piller (civil search), Mareva (asset freezing) and Norwich Pharmacal (equitable discovery) orders, and has appeared in nearly 100 injunction proceedings before Canadian courts. Ira has litigated a diverse array of cases over his career, including cases involving administrative law, anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting, asset tracing and recovery, banking, broadcasting and telecommunications, class actions/mass torts, computer and Internet law, contempt proceedings, cybersecurity and cybercrime (including privacy, data protection and information security), conflict of laws, constitutional law, contracts, corporate/commercial law, defamation, fiduciary duties, fraud, intellectual property, labour and employment, officer and director liability, product liability, professional negligence, public and private international law, and shareholder disputes. He has also brought numerous applications for the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments, for letters of request/letters rogatory, and to stay proceedings on jurisdictional grounds. Ira appears before all levels of courts in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, Ontario Court of Appeal, Federal Court, Ontario Divisional Court and Superior Court of Justice. He also appears regularly before the Commercial Court in Toronto. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and since 2001, he has been the author of the annual text Ontario Litigator's Pocket Reference that is widely used by lawyers throughout Ontario.