Beverly Ellingson

In his immigration practice, Darren works with both businesses and individuals to facilitate the entry of people into Canada as temporary and permanent residents. He also assists clients who are already in Canada with permanent residence applications, citizenship applications, and the renewal of their temporary status as workers, students, or visitors. His background in corporate and commercial law helps Darren to understand and anticipate his clients’ business needs when formulating an...

Nathan is an experienced M&A lawyer with over 25 years of experience. He is wholly focused on acting on private company M&A and private equity transactions and private equity fund formation in the private company sector. He acts for a number of the leading private equity funds in Western Canada, as well as family offices, entrepreneurs, strategic acquirers, management teams, and US purchasers making acquisitions in Canada. Nathan is particularly adept at explaining customary market te...

Jim is a senior litigator with a focus on municipal, real estate, and administrative law, and is widely recognized as a leading practitioner in property taxation, expropriation, and related matters. He advises government bodies, utilities, Crown corporations, private entities, and First Nations on a wide range of land and tax-related issues. His practice includes advising on the imposition and management of property taxes, property transfer taxes, mineral taxes, and similar levies affecting v...

Jonathan Van Netten is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Insurance Law. Jonathan, who practices law in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jonathan is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Kevin has a broad litigation practice, and advises clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious legal issues. He has successfully represented clients in all levels of court in British Columbia. Kevin has acted in numerous public law matters, including constitutional, administrative, environmental, aboriginal and human rights cases, as well as in other civil litigation, including estates matters, employment disputes, class actions, and a range of other corporate and commercial di...

Shane is an experienced litigator with a practice focused on real estate and commercial business disputes. He regularly advises senior executives, in-house counsel, real estate development companies, investors, family-owned businesses and individuals on dispute-avoidance strategies. When issues cannot be resolved through negotiation, Shane delivers effective representation at all levels of court, before administrative tribunals and in mediations and arbitrations. “My clients focus on ma...

Judy Rost is a senior litigator practising in civil litigation with an emphasis on business and franchise disputes, and estate matters. Judy is the group leader of the firm’s Business Disputes and Franchise Practices and a member of the Intellectual Property + Technology and Wills, Estates + Trusts Practice Groups. She has acted for plaintiffs and defendants in all types of business disputes including shareholder, partnership, real estate, and franchise matters. Judy has been recognized...

Joven Narwal is a leading Vancouver trial and appellate lawyer whose practice is devoted to complex and serious cases where liberty and reputation are at stake, primarily in the areas of criminal litigation, securities litigation, professional regulation, and specialty civil litigation involving criminal overtones. Inducted into Best Lawyers Canada, he has also been recognized as a “Litigation Star” and shortlisted for “White Collar Crime / Enforcement Lawyer of the Year&rdq...

Mark Stacey is a Partner and Co-Chair of Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP’s Commercial Business Litigation practice group. He is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He offers timely, result oriented advice to clients, helping them to make critical decisions about litigation matters or key transactions relating to their businesses. Mark’s practice is primarily directed towards advising clients about diverse commercial problems and transactions. He has acted for ...

Hein makes it his mission to help clients avert litigation if that is possible; to help them find early off-ramps if litigation is unavoidable; and to minimize the present value of the total cost of litigation. He has held senior management positions with Kaiser Resources, the Denver Broncos and Southeastern Capital Corporation, a U.S. private equity firm. Hein has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the B.C. Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, as well as various regulatory agencies a...