Kaleigh is a commercial litigator in Fasken’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution group. With over 200 days of trial and hearing experience, Kaleigh has broad experience in complex corporate litigation. Her practice focuses on shareholder, partnership, and corporate disputes, including oppression proceedings and breach of fiduciary duty claims. She also has significant experience in real estate litigation and white‑collar and regulatory defence. She is recognized by Benchmark Litigation Canada as a ‘Future Star’ and Best Lawyers in Canada as ‘One to Watch’ in Corporate and Commercial Litigation (2022-2025). Clients value Kaleigh’s dedication to their interests, pragmatic approach to litigation, and thorough preparation.
Shareholder and corporate disputes
Kaleigh acts as counsel on a range of complex corporate litigation with a focus on shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, civil fraud, and contractual disputes. Some of Kaleigh’s representative commercial cases include:
- As lead counsel for Mac’s Convenience Store Inc., Kaleigh successfully obtained dismissal of the plaintiffs’ summary trial application seeking to hold Mac’s vicariously liable for the actions of an immigration consultant: Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc. v. Basyal, 2025 BCCA 284.
- Counsel for airG Inc. in an oppression action brought by a former director that raised important issues regarding shareholder rights and fiduciary obligations in British Columbia. The action was dismissed against airG, and substantial parts of its counterclaim were allowed: Yen v. Ghahramani, 2025 BCSC 1778.
- Kaleigh has particular expertise in obtaining and defending equitable remedies for breach of fiduciary duty. As lead counsel in Sather v. Sather Ranch Ltd., 2025 BCCA 46, a significant decision on remedies for breach of fiduciary duty, she successfully resisted the imposition of a constructive trust. In Chung v Chung, 2022 BCSC 1592, aff’d Chung v. Chung, 2025 BCCA 136, Kaleigh obtained a constructive trust over property wrongfully acquired in breach of fiduciary duty.
Real estate litigation
Kaleigh regularly acts as counsel in real estate litigation, including disputes relating to collapsing deals, joint venture agreements, development projects, and commercial leasing matters. Representative cases include:
- Counsel for the Plaintiff in a specific performance claim arising from a failed sale of a land assembly which required the vendors to obtain specific re-zoning and involved the scope of a vendor’s duty to use “commercially reasonable efforts”.
- Counsel for the Petitioner in a claim commenced under the disclosable interest provisions of the Business Corporations Act seeking compensation in connection with the sale of a valuable development property, which raised significant issues applicable to the duties of directors and officers in British Columbia.
- Kaleigh acted as junior counsel in a complex specific performance/fraud trial which is a leading decision on the law of illegality of contract: Youyi Group Holdings (Canada) Ltd. v. Brentwood Lanes Canada Ltd., 2019 BCSC 739 aff’d 2020 BCCA 130.
Regulatory defence and white collar crime
Proudly born and raised in northern British Columbia, Kaleigh represents clients in the mining, forest, and renewable energy sectors in criminal and regulatory proceedings under the Fisheries Act, Forest Range and Practices Act, and Environmental Management Act and has appeared before the Environmental Appeal Board and Forest Appeals Commission. Some of Kaleigh’s representative experience includes:
- Kaleigh was part of the Fasken team that successfully established the defence of due diligence before the Forest Appeals Commission, with prior penalties imposed under the Forest and Range Practices Act rescinded in their entirety: Lemare Lake Logging Ltd. and Lions Gate Forest Products Ltd. v Government of British Columbia, 2024 BCFAC 7.
- Kaleigh was part of the Fasken team representing Teck Coal Limited in a complex and unprecedented prosecution that would have resulted in the largest environmental trial in Canadian history (R. v. Teck Coal Limited, 2021 BCPC 118).
- Kaleigh was part of the Fasken team overturning a government decision to retroactively adjust water licence fees before the Environmental Appeal Board (“EAB”) and successfully defended the EAB decision on judicial review to the BC Supreme Court and further appeal to the BC Court of Appeal (British Columbia Comptroller of Water Rights, Water Sustainability Act v. Harrison Hydro Project Inc., 2022 BCCA 4).
- Kaleigh also has experience defending administrative monetary penalties and has obtained the rare result of a complete cancellation of an administrative penalty.
In addition to her litigation practice, Kaleigh is a devoted mentor to students and young lawyers and member of the Fasken Student Committee. She is a frequent volunteer in professional development programs and a contributing author in the British Columbia Civil Trial Handbook and Expert Evidence in British Columbia Civil Proceedings text. Kaleigh also volunteers as Appeal Counsel for the Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia.
Kaleigh attended law school at UBC where she was the recipient of Richard R. Sugden Q.C. Prize in Trial Advocacy and the Wesbrook Scholarship and Premier Undergraduate award, the university’s highest student commendation.
Prior to joining Fasken, Kaleigh clerked at the BC Supreme Court and interned for the President of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
