Chris Bredt is a senior litigation partner practising in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Chris practises civil litigation, with an emphasis on commercial disputes, corporate governance and other corporate disputes, class actions, constitutional, Indigenous, and administrative law issues. He is the Chair of BLG’s National Public Law Group, and was selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada and recognized in Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He has appeared as counsel before all levels of the courts in Ontario, and before the Federal Court of Appeal, British Columbia Court of Appeal, and on numerous cases before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Chris has a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario, an LL.M. from Yale, and a D.S.U. (Droit Administratif) from the Université de Paris II.  Chris joined BLG in 1984, and became a partner 1988; he was seconded to the Government of Ontario from 1989-93, where he served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Office of Federal Provincial Relations and as Assistant Deputy Minister, Constitutional Policy and Special Counsel. Prior to joining BLG, Chris was law clerk to Mr. Justice McIntyre of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1979-80, and was a stagiaire with the Conseil d’État (Council of State) in Paris, France, in 1983. Since 2008, Chris has served as an elected Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, where he Chairs the Audit and Finance Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Law Society Tribunal. He has served as a member of the Ontario Judicial Council since 2016.