Diane L. Harms, K.C.

Alison is a skilled labour and employment lawyer. She advises employers in Alberta and Ontario in a wide range of industries across the public and private sectors, including oil & gas, banking, food and agriculture, aviation, and health care. Alison works closely with in-house counsel as well as human resources and labour relations professionals providing strategic advice on labour relations, arbitration, collective bargaining, human rights, employment policies and procedures, disability ...

Andrew Burt is a banking & finance lawyer in Fasken’s Calgary office advising a wide range of borrowers and lenders in debt financing transactions including acquisition financing, project financing, asset-based lending, first and second lien credit facilities and bridge loans. Andrew advises clients in a variety of industries including oil and gas, insurance and real estate. Andrew has experience advising clients in the areas of corporate finance, M&A, private equity and venture...

Andrew Koeman is a family law and divorce lawyer. Andrew graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Laws (Juris Doctor) in 2009. He completed his articles with Alberta Justice and continued to work there for two years as a Crown Prosecutor in the Specialized Prosecutions Branch, focusing on complex economic crimes, before he decided to practice family law exclusively. While Andrew has experience in all areas of family law, he developed a practice with a specific focus on comp...

Kaitlin Long's practice focuses on commercial litigation and dispute resolution within the energy industry, regulatory and environmental compliance matters and indigenous law issues. She is experienced in complex, high-stakes litigation proceedings involving contractual disputes, fraud and deceit and class actions. Kaitlin maintains a national practice and has been counsel in numerous trials, appeals and judicial review hearings, including multi-month trials. She has represented clients at al...

Michael Wolpert is the Leader of the Firm's Pensions and Benefits Group. Michael practises exclusively in the area of Pensions and Benefits law. He provides private and public sector clients, including boards of trustees, with strategic advice and practical counsel about legal, legislative and regulatory issues surrounding retirement plans, employment benefits and related human resource matters. In business transactions, Michael advises clients on the pension and benefit implications. He assi...

Greg Lindsey is the Managing Partner of Linmac LLP and a trusted advisor with over 25 years of experience at the intersection of tax and estate law. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for Trusts and Estates, Greg is known for delivering integrated, tax-optimized strategies to high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and business owners. Greg advises on a broad range of matters, including family and private business tax planning, succession and intergenerational wealth ...

Gunnar Benediktsson practises primarily in the areas of commercial and corporate litigation and insolvency and restructuring. Mr. Benediktsson has represented parties to commercial disputes throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, and has appeared before all levels of court in Alberta, and before the Court of Queen's Bench and Court of Appeal in Saskatchewan. As an insolvency and restructuring lawyer, Mr. Benediktsson has a range of experience representing court-appointed recei...

Wendy E. Best has a well-established family law practice and has earned ongoing recognition as a leading family law practitioner since being called to the bar in 1980. She joined Dunphy Best Blocksom LLP in 1982 and became partner in 1986. Wendy was appointed King's Counsel in 1994. She acts primarily for high net worth individuals and families. While she settles most matters, Wendy’s practice includes litigation. She was inducted as a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawye...

Don Davies practises energy law, with a focus on the regulatory and litigation fields. Mr. Davies has represented oil and gas producers, pipeline companies and industry organizations in proceedings before the National Energy Board for more than 30 years. He has acted for both proponents and intervenors in many applications for the approval of pipeline facilities and for the determination of pipeline tolls and tariffs. His cases typically involve complex environmental, aboriginal, constitution...

Dion Legge practises tax law. His practice focuses on the income tax aspects of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, debt and equity financings, and the taxation of flow-through vehicles. Mr. Legge also advises on tax-planning issues related to international structures for Canadian-based multinational corporations, on investments by non-residents in Canada, and on structuring cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financings. He joined our Calgary o...