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Thomas Wachowski is a partner at Koffman Kalef LLP, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He advises clients as a member of the firm's Securities/Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions team. With over 20 years of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Thomas has worked on cases with a total value exceeding $15 billion. His clientele includes wealth managers, securities registrants, private and public companies, investment funds, and private equity groups. Thomas offers advice in ar...

Pamela Sheppard is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Family Law. Pamela, who practices law in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Pamela is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Robert is a partner working on the Lending/Insolvency team at Koffman Kalef LLP, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. He provides advice and supports senior counsel across a wide range of matters within the Banking and Finance Law sector. His background includes valuable experience in commercial lending from his previous role at a Canadian chartered bank, giving him a comprehensive understanding of finance-related legal issues. In his practice, Robert works with Canadian chartered banks, f...

Reinhold advises clients on both international and domestic income taxation matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate reorganizations, and cross-border transactions. He regularly provides taxation and structuring advice to large institutions and pension funds as well as large public and private clients on multi-billion dollar transactions. Reinhold has extensive experience in structuring complex financial transactions relating to investments across Canada, the United Sta...

Jamie practises in a broad range of corporate practice areas, including Corporate / Commercial Transactions, Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Finance. Jamie’s experience includes working with both private and public clients in respect of asset and share transactions, lending transactions (for both lender and borrower clients), mergers, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, corporate restructurings, and similar m...

Real estate has been instrumental in making Vancouver the burgeoning world city it is today, and developers have been instrumental in building the very foundations of where we live, work, come together and enjoy life. Sarah is pleased to be a part of these contributions by representing clients in the commercial real estate sector. Sarah admires the dedication and pride our clients put into their work and our community. Sarah provides strategic legal advice based on which clients can make time...

Kelsey Sherriff has a general commercial litigation practice with a focus on class actions and estate and trust litigation. Kelsey also has experience in administrative and regulatory health law. Kelsey acts as defence counsel in a wide variety of class actions including environmental, products liability and price fixing cases. In her estate litigation practice, Kelsey acts for executors on probate matters and for individuals and charities on issues concerning the validity of wills and variat...

Dan Shugarman's practice involves general insurance litigation and personal injury matters with a significant emphasis on catastrophic injury, product liability, and complex machinery failure claims. Dan has significant court experience in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. He recently appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada case that will dictate how judges across Canada render their judgements. He has participated in hundreds of mediations, succ...

Shelley Chapelski is the leader of a team of experienced shipping lawyers within the transport team in Canada. Her practice encompasses both transactional and litigation aspects of maritime law, including maritime contracts, torts, liability claims, creditor's remedies and marine insurance matters. She has been recognized by her clients and colleagues as one of the leading maritime lawyers in Canada. Shelley drafts and advises on a wide array charter parties, contracts of carriage, moorage co...

Robert Carvalho is a partner practising in Thorsteinssons' Vancouver office. Robert received his Bachelor of Science in 1985 and LLB in 1991 from UBC and has been a member of the Law Society of BC since 1992. Mr. Carvalho specializes in high-value tax avoidance and GAAR cases and cases involving real estate. Robert was General Counsel at the Department of Justice and handled numerous significant cases at the Tax Court and Federal Court of Appeal. He has presented at the Canadian Tax Foundatio...