Frank E.P. Bowman, LSM

Frank E.P. Bowman, LSM is Counsel at Dentons Canada, based in Toronto, and a member of the firm's insurance litigation team. With 47 years of experience as a trusted advisor to insurers and other clients, his practice focuses on Insurance Law.

A seasoned veteran of numerous trials, appeals, administrative hearings, arbitrations and mediations, Frank is recognised as an expert in Lexpert and Best Lawyers, and in 2014 was awarded the Law Society Medal, the Society's highest honour for outstanding contribution to the profession.

He has defended professionals, directors, officers, employees and corporations with respect to claims arising under CGL, E&O, D&O, EPL, product liability, environmental and other types of coverages.

Frank has extensive experience with complex commercial claims and insurance coverage issues, in particular dealing with directors and officers (D&O) and errors and omissions (E&O) liability claims. He has extensive experience representing and advising corporations, engineers, surveyors, accountants, financial advisers, insurance brokers and real estate brokers in professional liability claims, corporate and commercial litigation, contract disputes, shareholder disputes, corporate governance matters and product liability claims, some of which have involved class actions.

His experience includes serving as lead counsel in Juliar v. Attorney General, which established for the first time that courts may rectify errors made by accountants and other professional advisers in tax reorganisations; successfully defending auditors named in $50+ million shareholder litigation in Waxman v. Waxman, a two-year trial and lengthy appeal; serving as lead trial counsel in the successful 2018 defence of the Board of Directors of Croatian (Toronto) Credit Union in a $5 million case brought by an investor alleging misrepresentation; and serving as lead counsel defending an accounting firm in a significant class action arising out of a complex tax shelter programme in Lipson v. Cassels Brock and Blackwell LLP.

He also has a long history of service to the community and the profession, chairing and leading the organisation of Canada's law school mooting competition, the Gale Cup Moot, for over 30 years. He served on his Toronto neighbourhood residents association for over 15 years, including as president, and served as legal counsel to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada for 34 years.

He holds an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School (1975). He is recognised by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Insurance Law, by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for Professional Liability, and holds a Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished BV Peer Review Rating. He received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.