David L. Mydske

Marko Vesely KC, FCIArb., has over 25 years of experience assisting clients with contentious business disputes in civil litigation and commercial arbitration. His broad practice includes a particular focus on class actions, cross-border disputes, shareholder litigation, and defamation and media law. Marko also has extensive experience in administrative law, including representing clients before administrative agencies and in the judicial review and appeal of administrative decisions. He has a...

Rory Godinho is Cozen O’Connor’s Co-Chair of Canadian Capital Markets and Securities. He has an extensive client base, which includes private and publicly traded companies in the natural resource, technology/biotechnology, telecommunications, and industrial sectors, and also acts for several independent investment dealers. Rory has extensive experience advising such clients on a broad range of matters such as initial public offerings, public and private equity and debt financings,...

Brian Fast practises corporate-commercial law with a focus on securities and corporate finance. He has advised clients on initial public offerings, short form and shelf prospectus financings, mergers and acquisitions, reverse takeovers, corporate restructurings and reorganizations, and qualifying transactions, as well as capital alterations and the preparation of documentation for related transactions on all major Canadian and U.S. stock exchanges. He also frequently advises clients on corpor...

Tim Louman-Gardiner is a Partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia. His practice focuses on Corporate and Commercial Litigation, creditors’ remedies and collections, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate restructuring, construction disputes, and estates litigation. Tim represents clients in complex commercial disputes and has appeared before all levels of court in British Columbia. He also assists clients with alternative dispute resolution matters, including arbitration and m...

Kimberley Cook is a partner working out of the Vancouver and Toronto offices of Thorsteinssons LLP whose practice focuses on tax litigation and representation. Called to the bar in 1987, she has appeared on numerous occasions before the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, the British Columbia Supreme Court, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Provincial Court of British Columbia, the Ontario Superior Court of Justic...

John Doolan is a business lawyer, with a wide variety of experience in Aboriginal law and commercial real estate law. His experience includes advising on major projects and financings, infrastructure development, structuring transactions, acquisitions and dispositions, partnerships and joint ventures, real estate development and leasing. He is included in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading lawyer in the areas of abo...

Vancouver is fast becoming an international city, drawing people from all over the world. Years ago, Lauren moved here from China, where she was born, raised and educated. Today, she is one of just a few English-fluent and native-Chinese litigators practicing within a major law firm in Vancouver. Her cross-cultural background allows her to assist a wide range of clients across a variety of demographics as Vancouver grows more each day into a global hub. After her first university degree in Ch...

Lana practices corporate and commercial law with a particular emphasis on energy, Indigenous and environmental law. She works with public and private companies in a wide range of industries, including mining, energy, natural resources, technology and manufacturing. Within her corporate and commercial energy law practice, Lana negotiates and structures complex commercial arrangements for hydroelectric utilities and energy companies, including tariff arrangements, power purchase and sale agreem...

Sarah Fitzpatrick’s practice focuses on the areas of charities and not-for-profits. She provides general advice to these clients, to assist them in carrying out their missions and mandates. Sarah counsels charities and not-for-profit clients on governance matters, tax and regulatory compliance, social enterprise and gift planning. She also assists clients with general corporate legal matters including major business contracts, transactions and restructuring. Sarah's practice is recogniz...

Sharon MacMillan practices commercial real estate law, advising clients on all aspects of real estate transactions including financing, acquisitions, dispositions, subdivision and development, as well as environmental, strata property and commercial lease matters. Her clients include landlords, tenants, lending institutions, developers and strata corporations. Real estate development: Sharon advises developers on all aspects of the development process, including acquisitions, approvals and zo...