Daniela Bassan,
K.C.
Partner & Trademark Agent
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Queen’s Marque
600-1741 Lower Water Street
Halifax, N.S.
B3J 0J2 - +1.902.420.3354
- +1.902.420.1417
- dbassan@stewartmckelvey.com
Language(s) spoken: English, French, Italian, Spanish
Bar Admission(s): Ontario, 1998; Nova Scotia, 2003
Legal Assistant(s): Arabella McKimm
Working with clients such as retailers, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, service providers, financing companies, technology firms, and energy companies, Daniela helps her clients navigate the complicated worlds of intellectual property disputes, arbitration proceedings, corporate commercial disputes, and class action suits. She has:
- Acted in one of the most high-profile intellectual property cases brought in Atlantic Canada over famous trademarks and related copyrights.
- Acted for an international energy firm in a large-scale, clean tech project to address environmental, regulatory, and stakeholder disputes at federal and provincial levels.
- Acted in cross-border, multi-jurisdictional proceedings in consumer and wholesale sectors – involving trade, marketing, and competition disputes.
- Acted for a European-based multinational company in a dispute over the manufacture and supply of large-scale industrial equipment from Italy to Canada.
- Acted for a Nova Scotia company and its affiliates as part of an international, multi-firm legal team in connection with disputed assets and transactions of over $1 billion.
Education & Career
Education
Harvard Law School, LLM, 2002
Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1996
University of Toronto, BA (high distinction), 1993
University of Siena (summer term), 1991
Activities
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Chair, Patent Acquisition Committee, Innovation Asset Collective, since 2021
Chair, 2b theatre company, 2021 – 2023
Chair, IP/IT Practice Group, Stewart McKelvey, since 2017
Chapter Leader, Eastern Canada, ChIPS global network for women in IP & tech law and policy, 2022 – 2024
Member, The Bretton Woods Committee, Future of Finance Working Group – Digital Finance Project Team, since 2022
Director, Innovation Asset Collective, since 2021
Director, Canadian Commercial Corporation, 2014 – 2020
Director, Neptune Theatre, 2012 – 2016
Member, LegalBizDev Project Management Advisory Board, 2012
Member, Advisory Board for the International Arbitration Law Project of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, 2012
Panelist interviewing candidates for CEO of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, 2011
Director, Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, 2009 – 2012
Member, Partnership Board, Stewart McKelvey, 2008 – 2012
Chair, Intellectual Property Section of Canadian Bar Association – Nova Scotia, 2009 – 2011
OTHER
President, Harvard Club of Atlantic Canada, since 2010
Chair, Harvard Law School Reunion & Gift Committee, Spring Reunion 2022
Director, McGill University School of Continuing Studies and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada – Copyright Master Course, 2023 – 2024
Associate Director, McGill University School of Continuing Studies and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada – Copyright Master Course, 2022 – 2023
Class Agent, Harvard Law School, since 2008
Participant, Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Leaders at Sea Program, 2018
Certified Legal Project Manager Program (LegalBizDev), 2011
Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Canada (Justices La Forest & Bastarache), 1997
Accolades
Best Lawyers Intellectual Property Law “Lawyer of the Year” – Halifax, 2022, 2025
Appointed King’s Counsel – Nova Scotia, 2020
Best Lawyers: Class Action Litigation, 2021 – 2025
Best Lawyers: Intellectual Property Law, 2021 – 2025
Lexpert rating: Intellectual Property Law, 2010 – 2025
Lexpert rating: Litigation – Intellectual Property, 2019 – 2025
Benchmark Canada, local litigation star (Intellectual Property), 2014 – 2022
Lexpert 2013 Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, Corporate Commercial Law
LAW SCHOOL:
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review National Prize
J.S.D. Tory Research and Writing Award
F.W. Minkler Scholarship Trust Fund (academics & activities)
Fraser Milner Prize (academics & activities)
Celanese Canada Internationalist Fellowship
UNDERGRADUATE:
University of Toronto Arbor Scholar
University of Toronto Alumni Association Scholar
University College Literary and Athletic Society Honour Award
Government of Italy Scholarship
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Presentations
Moderator, “ADR Strategies for Technology Disputes: Creating Efficient Resolutions”, Webinar hosted by CBA Skilled Lawyers Series
Moderator, “What is Fair? A Comparative Look at Fair Use vs. Fair Dealing”, Webinar hosted by Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
Panelist, “Transforming Copyright Cases for 2023”, Annual Conference hosted by Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Winnipeg
Moderator, “Canadian Innovation and IP Policy”, IP Policy Forum hosted by Innovation Asset Collective, Ottawa
Speaker, “What is Happening with Injunction Jurisprudence at the Competition Tribunal?” (CBA Competition Law Online Symposium)
Panelist, “A Conversation with the CEO of Moderna”, Harvard Business
Panelist, Copyright Panel and Career Q&A, Webinar Series hosted by Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG)
Presenter, “Mandates, By-Laws, and Governance Policies: Takeaways on Establishing Consistency Through Elections and Board Succession/Changes”, Canadian Institute Conference on Crown Corporate Governance
Presenter, “Copyright Case Law Update – 2019”, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual Conference
Presenter, “E-Discovery and Technology: Why you can’t have one without the other”, Legal Innovation & Technology on the Atlantic Coast – A Conversation with people at the Forefront of Change in the Legal Industry, Hosted by EPIQ Global
Presenter, “IP and Contract Law: Need to Know”, Canadian Bar Association IP Section, Annual IP Day
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