Leo Raffin

Kristal was called to the B.C. Bar in 2008 and joined Guild Yule LLP in 2010. As part of her articles, Kristal completed a clerkship at the Supreme Court of British Columbia working directly with four to six justices. Kristal has been recognized by Benchmark Canada as a Future Star in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Kristal’s practice is focused in (defence) litigation with an emphasis on professional negligence in the Health and Education areas, complex personal injury claims, and employment law....

Jonathan practises predominantly in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, capital markets and securities law. He has been involved in several high-profile commercial acquisition, financing and public offering transactions of Canadian and international clients. Jonathan has extensive experience acting for buyers, sellers and issuers, both public and private, in a variety of industries, including regulated professional practice acquisitions (i.e., roll-ups with respect to th...

Patrick Bruce is a Partner in Alexander Holburn’s Insurance group. His practice is primarily litigation-based with an emphasis on insurance defence, insurance coverage and alternative dispute resolution. Patrick has experience with technically complex, multi-party personal injury, casualty, and liability claims. He has acted for large global insurers and their insureds across a wide range of industries, including complex personal injury claims, subrogated matters, property damage, const...

Stewart Muglich is Associate Counsel at Lindsay Kenney LLP where is focuses on Business Law including Corporate Finance and Securities. Since 2016, Stewart has been recognized by Best Lawyers® in Canada for his work in corporate law. Stewart has been advising clients in corporate finance and securities matters, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and going private transactions for almost three decades. He has represented clients across various business sectors including t...

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...

He has broad trial experience defending clients faced with serious and complex charges, including homicides, criminal organization offences, conspiracies, kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking, firearms offences, and money laundering. Daniel has extensive experience as criminal appellate counsel, having represented clients at the Supreme Court of Canada in more than twenty cases. He conducts criminal appeals regularly at the Alberta Court of Appeal and British Columbia Court of Appeal, and ...

Andrew Jackson is Co-Leader of the firm’s Banking and Finance group and a Partner in the Vancouver office of Fasken. A banking lawyer with a broad practice, Andrew primarily advises financial institutions and private companies on debt financing and corporate and commercial law matters. Banks, credit unions, private lenders and borrowers consistently retain him for advice on the structuring of financings and the preparation, registration and enforcement of security. Andrew works with cli...

Connie’s practice is civil litigation-based with a primary focus on insurance law defence, primarily in the areas of disability insurance, personal injury and healthcare professional regulation and liability. She has a diverse range of civil litigation experience which includes matters involving commercial disputes and multi-party lawsuits being tried inside and outside of the class action context. Connie has appeared as counsel at all levels of the British Columbia courts. Her disabili...

Ariel Laver is a corporate/commercial lawyer in Vancouver who primarily provides strategic, legal and commercial advice to clients looking to acquire, transfer and develop technology. He also advises private companies on a wide range of issues including start-up and incorporation, commercial arrangements, financing transactions, M&A, and corporate reorganizations. Ariel has substantial experience advising on and drafting agreements for a wide range of commercial matters, including technol...

Helen Low, KC is the leader of Fasken’s Wills, Trusts, Estates and Charities Group in BC. She assists clients with contentious disputes regarding wills, trusts, inheritances, powers of attorneys and elderly and incapable family members, as well as estate planning for both simple and complex estates with a goal to avoid post-death disputes. She has been litigation counsel on a broad range of cases, including: challenges to estate plans; variation of wills and trusts; abuse of powers of a...