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Rahim Vasanji is a member of Verjee Law’s Personal Injury and Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group , where he focuses on advocating for individuals who have suffered serious injuries. His practice is centered on personal injury and insurance disputes with additional experience in commercial litigation and corporate transactional matters. In his personal injury work, Rahim represents clients in motor vehicle accidents, catastrophic injury claims and fatality matters. He is committed...

Anthony’s practice covers a wide array of taxation law matters, providing businesses and high net-worth families with transactional tax, estate planning and tax dispute resolution advice. In 2022, Anthony was appointed King’s Counsel. Recognized for tax law in the Canadian Lexpert®, the Lexpert/ALM 500, The Best Lawyers in Canada™ guide, and as the 2021 Corporate Tax Planning Lawyer of the Year by Lawyer Monthly, Anthony is one of our co-managing partners in Calgary. Ant...

Sandy Vander Ziel joined Dunphy Best Blocksom LLP in 2013 and practices exclusively in family law. She is a registered collaborative lawyer, mediator and arbitrator, as well as a dispute resolution officer with the Court of King’s Bench. She has practiced in the area of family law at local and national law firms since 2002. Sandy has significant experience with a variety of methods of Alternate Dispute Resolution including Collaborative law, lawyer assisted mediation, arbitration and in...

Josh Selby’s practice focuses on real estate law. Josh’s practice includes real estate transactions (acquisition and disposition), leasing, condominiums, real estate development, and real estate financing (especially development financing), and limited partnerships/joint ventures. Josh also has experience in planning law and with subdivision and development appeal boards. He has acted for developers of shopping centres, apartment buildings, industrial buildings, subdivisions, and ...

Kirk Litvenenko's core practice areas include: corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalization and reorganization transactions and public and private offerings of debt and equity. Kirk is focused on providing elite client service. Kirk builds high-performance internal working teams that are specifically designed to collaboratively service each client's specific and unique needs. Excellent service builds client loyalty and strong relationships, as such, many of the clients for...

Catherine Grygar is a partner in the Real Estate Group. Over the course of her 10-year career at Stikeman Elliott, Catherine has advised on many of the most innovative and complex real estate and renewable energy developments and transactions across Western Canada. Her impressive track record includes acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leasing matters, development projects including mixed-use developments and strata-space subdivisions, real estate financings and environmental issues relat...

Stacey has practiced exclusively in the area of family law since her call to the Bar in 2014, and between 2010 and 2014 she worked and/or volunteered with Family Justice Services (now Resolution Services) at the Calgary Courts Centre as a judicial clerk/intake worker assisting individuals with Family Law matters. Stacey believes that clients are best served through the use of alternative dispute resolution processes such as mediation and arbitration, and as such will encourage people to consi...

Paul is an oil and gas lawyer transaction and land lawyer with over 30 years of experience advising clients on on the drafting and negotiating of agreements for the acquisition and divestiture (A&D) of oil and gas assets and the drafting and negotiating of joint venture, partnership and joint operating agreements pertaining to the energy industry. Paul also assists clients in due diligence and title opinion preparation in A&D transactions; custom and complex freehold land and leasing ...

Caireen Hanert is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Administrative and Public Law and Corporate and Commercial Litigation. Caireen, who practices law in Calgary, Alberta, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Caireen is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jamie Flanagan is an experienced advocate who has guided his clients through difficult times for more than 30 years. Focusing on civil litigation, he handles commercial and construction litigation, employment law disputes, and estate litigation. When a matter proceeds to trial, Jamie has the litigation experience to aggressively and thoroughly pursue his clients' interests. He has appeared before the provincial, superior, and appeal courts of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan on a w...