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Shahrooz Nabavi is the Co-Leader of the Firm’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications and Emerging Technology and Venture Capital groups. Shahrooz maintains a practice focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions with an active transaction-oriented practice as well as supporting high-growth later stage venture backed companies and their board of directors in respect of governance, corporate and strategic advisory matters. He is primarily focused on technology and knowledg...

John Gregory practices principally out of our Vancouver office. John’s practice focuses on personal and corporate taxation, estate planning, corporate reorganizations, and international tax planning. John advises a number of private business groups and high net worth families on tax matters. Their businesses are involved in various sectors including real estate development and investment, hospitality, agriculture and entertainment. John has served as a senior rulings officer with the Ca...

Eric Clavier is a trusts and estate litigation lawyer in Fasken’s Vancouver office, assisting clients with resolving contentious matters related to wills, trusts, undue influence and incapacity claims, committeeship applications, unjust enrichment claims, breach of fiduciary duties cases, abuse of powers of attorney claims, breach of trust claims, and passing of accounts. Providing innovative solutions to disputes arising from estate planning, wills, trusts and personal documents, Eric&...

Riley Burr's practice largely focuses on commercial tax work. Riley also advises clients on GST, PST and property transfer tax issues in the corporate, charitable and real estate sectors, both in structuring designed to minimize taxes as well as in handling administrative appeals, ruling requests and voluntary disclosures relating to such taxes. Riley also works with high-net-worth individuals with significant private company interests in a wide variety of industries to structure their affair...

Gordon practices civil and commercial litigation with focuses in shareholder and partnership disputes, pension and benefits litigation, and administrative law. Gordon has appeared as lead counsel before the British Columbia Court of Appeal and regularly appears in the British Columbia Supreme Court. Gordon has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada. Prior to joining Lawson Lundell, Gordon interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at a ...

Georald’s practice is focused on securities and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism and corporate governance. As a senior partner, Georald’s services are highly sought after by Canadian and international corporations, underwriters and investors, primarily in the mining industry, as well as the technology, life sciences and other sectors. Management teams and board of directors rely on Georald’s depth of experience and expertise advising on complex...

With nearly twenty years of experience, Mandeep has established a reputation for herself among clients and colleagues providing innovative solutions to complex issues. Mandeep maintains a busy practice focused on health law and professional regulation. She recognizes the complicated nature of the areas in which she practices, and approaches each of her files with legal acumen and unique insight. Mandeep assists clients with respect to civil legal matters and disciplinary matters before the Co...

Trademarks, copyrights and other related intellectual property (IP) are now critical to competing in an international market. Procuring, protecting and enforcing IP in a global context are key to every company’s business strategy. As both a lawyer and a registered Canadian trademark agent, Athar Malik is well-placed to meet the IP needs of clients. Whether representing clients in clearing or securing trademarks, drafting IP agreements or advising on copyright and other intellectual prop...

Ed practices in the areas of real estate and municipal law, with a focus on real estate development. He advises clients on a wide range of projects, including industrial site development, heritage designation and density bonusing arrangements, shopping centre rezonings and redevelopments, office and industrial parks, condominium projects, strata title hotels, and mine site development. His experience also includes the subdivision and sale of pulp and saw mills, municipal downtown redevelopmen...

David Baxter received his law degree from the University of Toronto and earlier graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of British Columbia. He was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1994. David’s practice focuses on tax planning for individuals, trusts and corporations in both domestic and international matters, including divisive reorganizations, estate planning, business structuring and sales, life insurance matters, foreign affiliates and cros...