Thomas D. "Tommy" Gelbman

Carolyn maintains a corporate commercial practice with a focus on business transactions, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganizations, and debt and equity financings. She also advises clients on corporate governance and general corporate and securities law matters. Carolyn regularly acts for Canadian and U.S. private equity firms and their portfolio companies, as well as clients in the energy sector, including midstream companie...

Annette Lambert represents a variety of clients, including power and energy companies, real property and commercial and industrial developers, chartered banks, institutional and private lenders, and a number of other commercial and industrial participants. Annette advises on a broad range of commercial real property matters, including financing, acquisitions and divestitures, project and infrastructure development, and industrial and commercial leasing. She consults at strategic levels on her...

Hollick Chipman has focused on personal injury law since 1996, and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in this area to his clients. Hollick primarily represents people who have been injured in motor vehicle accidents and also handles other personal injury matters. He has appeared in the Alberta Court of Appeal, the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, and the Alberta Court of Justice. Hollick has served as a Board Member for the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association and as the Canad...

Melissa became a member of the Law Society of Alberta in 2004. After her articles, Melissa participated in a Canadian Bar Association internship in Tanzania. During this internship, she assisted the Legal and Human Rights Centre in Dar es Salaam with promoting awareness on various critical human rights issues. Melissa joined Carbert Waite LLP in 2006, and became a partner in 2017. Melissa practices in all areas of civil and commercial litigation. Melissa’s primary practice areas are emp...

Larissa's practice encompasses advising a broad range of clients on complex commercial real estate matters including acquisition and disposition transactions, land ownership and structuring arrangements, leasing, mortgage financing, real estate development matters and foreign ownership of land compliance matters. Larissa advises a variety of local, national and international clients including real estate advisors, asset and property managers, landlords and tenants, institutional lenders and b...

Joel Fairbrother is an employment lawyer. He is a partner and co-founder of Bow River Law LLP. Joel's key practice areas are employment law, labour law and human rights, but he does some general civil litigation as well. Prior to law school, Joel obtained a BA degree in Political Science from University of Alberta. He attended law school at University of Saskatchewan and obtained his Juris Doctor in 2011. Joel has experience litigating at all levels of court and many different tribunals in Al...

Blake Hafso is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Labour and Employment Law. Blake, who practices law in Calgary, Alberta, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Blake is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Gulu Punia is a leading commercial and employment litigator in Alberta, representing clients at all levels of Court in Alberta, including as lead counsel at trial before the Court of Queen's Bench. From shareholder disputes and oppression remedies, to fraud claims and claims for breach of contract, Gulu acts for clients in obtaining extraordinary remedies such as attachment orders and Anton Piller orders in cases involving fraud.

Nancy's practice focuses primarily on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, including cross-border transactions or financings and intragroup restructurings. She is particularly experienced in the area of resource taxation. Nancy has worked on a wide variety of transactions for multinationals, private companies, senior, intermediate and junior resource issuers and private equity groups.

Lewis’ practice focuses on regulatory and administrative law matters involving both the electricity and oil and gas sectors including all aspects of rate applications, toll design, facilities applications, cost of capital and related matters before the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Alberta Energy Regulator (and the Canada Energy Regulator, the BCUC, OEB, Manitoba PUB, and the Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry. He has appeared at all levels of the Al...