Kimberly "Kim" Brown

Daniel Fetterly’s primary focus is in acting as defence counsel on aviation related litigation and has practiced in this area for his entire 30 years of practice. Dan has represented a variety of clients, with an emphasis on manufacturers of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft, in numerous litigation matters arising primarily from aviation accidents. Dan has maintained long term relationships with clients since first commencing practice in 1992. His focus in all cases is identifying as soon ...

Jon Buysen is a partner practicing in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Jon has a broad commercial litigation practice focused on corporate and commercial disputes. He has successfully acted on contract disputes, shareholder disputes, real estate disputes, business torts, insolvency matters and various other commercial claims. Jon has appeared before the British Columbia Supreme Court, British Columbia Court of Appeal, Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, the Federal Court of Ca...

Laura Smith is a member of Fasken’s Real Estate Law and Banking & Finance practice groups in Vancouver, focusing on acquisitions and dispositions, commercial leasing, real estate development and lending. Laura has a range of experience in real property matters and has acted for clients in a range of commercial real estate transactions. Laura also acts for lenders and borrowers in secured financing transactions, including syndicated loan transactions.

Matt Mulligan’s practice is focused on infrastructure and construction projects. Areas in which he has extensive experience include: procurement - drafting procurement documents and advising owners and bidders on all aspects of tender and RFP processes, including the structuring of procurements, drafting of procurement documents, evaluation of bids or proposals and negotiation of commercial agreements. engineering and construction contracts - drafting and negotiating all types of engine...

Jon Conlin is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group, Private Equity & Venture Capital Group and Technology Group. Jon’s practice includes a wide range of complex business transactions; with a focus on M&A, strategic investments, private equity transactions and related corporate law matters. He also advises high-growth technology companies, founders and venture capital funds on private financings and other strategic transactions. Further, Jon regularly advis...

Shane Brown is a partner practising out of the Vancouver office of Thorsteinssons LLP. Shane’s practice focuses on domestic and international tax planning for individuals, trusts, corporations and charities, including: estate planning, corporate reorganizations, divisive reorganizations, business structuring, property acquisitions, entering and exiting the Canadian tax net, and offshore and cross-border structures. Shane also advises non-residents, including persons planning to immigrat...

James Coady is a Shareholder in Boughton Law’s Litigation Group. He is Director of Boughton Law and a former Director of Meritas, an association of 191 law firms worldwide. He has over 30 years’ litigation experience. His broad practice includes aboriginal, commercial and construction litigation. James is frequently involved in high profile and complex cases and has appeared before all levels of the Canadian court system. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2015 and is liste...

Samantha practices all aspects of income tax planning at Farris. Samantha practiced exclusively in tax planning and litigation for several years at another downtown Vancouver firm. She took a break from her legal career to spend time with family and joined Farris upon her return to practice in 2019.

For the past 20 years, Dave has been practicing corporate and securities law with a primary focus on capital market transactions and business law matters, including equity and debt financings, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Dave provides ongoing advice to public and private companies regarding corporate governance, continuous disclosure obligations, and various other corporate and securities law compliance matters. In addition, he has extensive experience acting for Ag...

Grant Foster is a corporate/commercial Partner and member of the Private M&A group in Vancouver. He advises clients in a wide array of industries on mergers and acquisitions, day-to-day commercial agreements, corporate governance and structuring matters, reorganizations, and debt and equity financings. Grant also advises franchisors and franchisees regarding their franchised businesses. Grant acts for both buyers and sellers in M&A transactions, and has experience completing deals in ...