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Brendan advises clients on a broad range of real property matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, rezoning, subdivision, financing, commercial leasing, and licensing of real estate professionals. He regularly assists clients with corporate and partnership structuring, transactions and reorganizations, including drafting and negotiating partnership, joint venture, and shareholder agreements. Brendan has acted as lead development counsel on a variety of development projects ...
Dean O’Leary is a Partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose practice focuses on Corporate Law, Energy Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. He advises clients on a broad range of business and commercial matters, including corporate reorganizations, corporate financings, business acquisitions and divestitures, share and asset purchase transactions, property rezoning, expropriations, and the drafting of legislation to facilitate complex transactions. Dean works with bus...
Bruno De Vita, K.C. is a member of the firm’s litigation practice and the former Managing Partner of the firm. He practices in the area of civil litigation with an emphasis on insurance law, governmental liability, class action and personal injury litigation. His clients include major insurance companies, self-insured corporations, local governments, religious institutions and athletic associations. Mr. De Vita’s practice involves the handling of complex insurance coverage cases, ...
Matt Pierce is a Partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a broad litigation and dispute resolution practice. Matt advises and represents clients across a wide range of civil and commercial disputes including complex contract disputes, shareholder disputes, construction and real estate disputes, corporate and securities law matters, employment law matters, class actions, insolvency matters, regulatory matters, and judicial review of administrative action. Matt appears regula...
Prentice Durbin is a partner with the Firm’s Business Law Group. His practice involves advising entrepreneurs at any stage, from start-up and early growth to large-scale established businesses, in a wide variety of corporate/commercial and securities issues. He focuses on stimulating creativity and growth, helping businesses thrive, and providing counsel, guidance and practical solutions to his clients. Practical Solutions for Complicated Markets Prentice is known for his practical appr...
Jennifer Flood represents clients in the most high-stakes tax disputes Jennifer is a partner practicing in the firm’s Vancouver office. She represents companies and individuals in complex tax litigation, in both the civil and criminal contexts. She guides her clients through all stages of interaction with the tax authorities including tax audits, administrative appeals, trials in the Tax Court of Canada, judicial review applications, and appeal proceedings. She also represents clients w...
Mark Pontin is a leading commercial litigator in Vancouver, BC. With a focus on corporate and securities litigation, Mark represents clients in a wide range of shareholder disputes including oppression and dissent proceedings, derivative actions and proxy contests. In addition, Mark has extensive experience in real estate disputes, and matters involving civil fraud. Mark has successfully represented both regional and national companies in commercial disputes.
Shelley Braun is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Insurance Law. Shelley practices law in Vancouver, British Columbia Best Lawyers has recognized Shelley Braun since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Shelley Braun is held by other lawyers.
Derek is a member of Alexander Holburn’s Wills, Estates + Trusts; Labour + Employment; Business Disputes; Intellectual Property + Technology; and Insurance practice groups. He has a broad business litigation practice which includes contractual, shareholder, employment, human rights, and intellectual property disputes. Derek also has a particular interest in estate and trust disputes, including wills variation, will validity, trustee and executor liability, and trustee remuneration cases...
Natasha Kisilevsky is a partner in the Vancouver office specializing in taxpayer representation and litigation matters. She is also the Director of Associate Development for Thorsteinssons. Natasha has been practicing tax law since her call to the Bar of British Columbia in 2007, including a year in the tax litigation section of the Department of Justice. She has appeared in the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Provincial Court of...
Brian Duong maintains a generalist practice in civil and administrative litigation. His experience involves a broad range of matters including complex contract and shareholder disputes, property issues, franchise litigation, gaming law, constitutional claims, and freedom of information requests. Brian regularly appears as litigation counsel before all levels of court in British Columbia, and has represented clients in chambers applications, trials, appeals, judicial reviews, mediations, arbit...
Michael Gianacopoulos is a Partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose practice includes corporate and commercial litigation, personal injury litigation, railroad law, and transportation law. He acts for clients in matters involving motor vehicle accidents, rail and road transportation incidents, insurance claims, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, debt collection, and the realization of personal and real property. Michael regularly appears before the Provincial Court of B...
Georgialee Lang has practiced family law in Vancouver for 37 years beginning as an associate at Ladner Downs, now Borden Ladner Gervais. She inititated the firm's family law practice in 1989 and in 1994 started her boutique practice, Georgialee Lang & Associates, where she practiced with four associate lawyers and six legal staff. She is an invited Fellow of the International Academy of Family Law Lawyers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators United Kingdom, and an invited m...
Jeffrey Jay Kay is a Partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia. His practice focuses on Family Law, Family Law Mediation, Product Liability Law, and commercial litigation. He represents clients in complex family law matters involving property division, trusts, support disputes, and the preparation of asset protection and domestic agreements. Jeff has appeared as counsel before the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Provincial Court of Briti...
