Kaitlin Ward

Kaitlin is an associate lawyer practising in the firm’s insolvency and commercial litigation groups. Kaitlin has been involved in proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, including consumer proposals, receivership proceedings, secured lending enforcement and foreclosures. She has also represented clients on general commercial matters in the Alberta Court of Justice, the Alberta Court of King’s Bench and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Kaitlin graduated with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan College of Law in 2019. She completed her articles with MLT Aikins and was a summer student in the firm’s Calgary office in 2017.

Prior to attending law school, Kaitlin graduated with distinction from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Arts. She played rugby for the University of Victoria varsity rugby team, as well as the Calgary Rams Rugby Club.

• Counsel to the Interim Receiver of Regent Aircraft Services Inc., appointed by Order of the Court of King’s Bench for Alberta on November 14, 2025.
• Counsel to Sirona Pharma and its affiliates in obtaining CCAA protection on November 21, 2025, and securing a DIP loan to stabilize their Peers, Alberta cultivation facility. The group, which once operated a 126,800 square foot cannabis production campus, shut down after its Health Canada licence was suspended in September of 2025.
• Counsel to a court-appointed receiver of Light Speed Logistics Inc., an Alberta refrigerated transportation company, appointed by the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta on December 5, 2025.

• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, IWIRC Western Canada Network 
• Member, Turnaround Management Association 
• Third-year Class Representative, Law Students’ Association (2018–2019)
• Social Director, Law Students’ Association (2017–2018)
• Volunteer, Family Law Education Project, Elizabeth Fry Society (2016–2017)

• Recognized in the 2026 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada (One to Watch – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law)
• Recognized in the 2026 edition (and since 2024) of the Best Lawyers in Canada (One to Watch – Corporate and Commercial Litigation)
• National Champion, Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot (2019)
• Distinguished Orallist, Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot (2019)
• Top 15 Orallist, Davies Corporate/Securities Law Moot (2018)
• College of Law Upper-Year Juris Doctor Academic Achievement Scholarship (2017)
• James M. Stevenson Scholarship (2016)
• Canadian Interuniversity Sport Honour Roll Award (Victoria, 2013)
• President’s Award (Victoria, 2010–2013)

• Co-author, “Recent Developments in CBCA Plans of Arrangement – Finding the Balance Between a Facilitative and Functional Process,” Journal of the Insolvency Institute of Canada (2021)
• Co-author, “To Approve or Not Approve – That is the Question: The Court’s Discretion when Considering to Approve an Asset Sale in the Absence of a Court-Approved Sales Process”, Journal of the Insolvency Institute of Canada (2022)