Mojdeh Shahriari

Lynsey is a lawyer in the labour and employment group at MLT Aikins, representing public and private sector employers. She regularly advises employers on collective agreement interpretation and bargaining, drafting workplace policies, discipline and discharge, and navigating workplace accommodations and human rights issues. Lynsey also practises in the area of professional regulation and administrative law. In 2022, Lynsey completed the seven-week Innovation Governance Program provided by the...

Richard Sarabando's practice focuses on all aspects of commercial law with a particular emphasis on advising clients on banking, corporate lending, acquisition finance, infrastructure and project finance, mezzanine finance, structured finance, asset-based lending and real estate finance transactions. His involvement in a wide variety of transactions in these areas includes financing the acquisition and development of commercial real estate, financing the acquisition of businesses, including s...

Tom is a litigator in Vancouver with a focus on civil appeals, commercial disputes, class actions, judicial reviews, and regulatory defence. Tom has an active appellate practice, appearing as counsel in more than 40 reported appellate decisions in the British Columbia Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Before joining Fasken, Tom clerked for the Court of Appeal for British Columbia and practiced at both a national and boutique law firm in Vancouver. He is als...

As both a lawyer and an engineer, Doug has significant expertise in large infrastructure projects, working on major projects across Canada, and around the world. He practises in the areas of: public-private partnerships construction contracts (negotiation, drafting, and review) shipbuilding contracts power plant and industrial EPC contracts contracts to design or construct any asset Doug is also a frequent author and speaker for various organizations and publications on these areas of law. He...

Mark's practice encompasses a broad range of commercial disputes, including technology and intellectual property litigation, protection of trade secrets, breaches of fiduciary obligation, and fraud. He has particular experience with injunctions, trade-mark protection, mining disputes involving confidential information, and the area of preservation and discovery of electronic documents and records in complex litigation. Mark has appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the...

Rick assists high net worth individuals with estate planning and individuals and corporations with their domestic and international tax planning. A significant portion of Rick’s clients are mining and exploration companies. Rick also represents clients who have disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency. In his civil litigation practice Rick advises and represents clients with respect to Canada Revenue Agency audits and appeals and has appeared in tax related cases before many courts, incl...

Chi-Young (Chi) Lee hails from Toronto, but we don’t hold that against her. Having two boys under four and running a full immigration practice, she is a multi-tasker extraordinaire. We’re pretty sure her day holds 48 hours, not 24. Chi originally joined the firm in 2011 after having worked at a non-profit serving the needs of foreign live-in caregivers. After a “brief” 8 year detour back to Toronto, she could not resist the call back to McCrea, that, or it could have b...

Kevin Westell is a founding partner at Pender Litigation. In addition to his criminal and regulatory defence work, he is often retained to act as Crown Counsel, counsel for witnesses in criminal proceedings and as amicus curiae (counsel for the Court). He has represented clients across Canada facing all levels of seriousness and at all levels of court in British Columbia. Mr. Westell was elected a Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) Bencher for Vancouver County on November 16, 2020 and beg...

Chat has a broad corporate and securities law practice with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and corporate governance. He advises clients on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, capital raising initiatives, and corporate reorganizations. In addition to transactional mandates, Chat regularly assists clients with corporate governance matters, continuous disclosure obligations, and gene...

Hein makes it his mission to help clients avert litigation if that is possible; to help them find early off-ramps if litigation is unavoidable; and to minimize the present value of the total cost of litigation. He has held senior management positions with Kaiser Resources, the Denver Broncos and Southeastern Capital Corporation, a U.S. private equity firm. Hein has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the B.C. Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, as well as various regulatory agencies a...