2022 Best Lawyers Business Edition
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Alexis Teasdale is a partner in the Calgary office of Lawson Lundell LLP. Her practice focuses on insolvency and restructuring, and general corporate commercial litigation with a particular emphasis in debtor-creditor matters, foreclosures, disputes involving real property and leasing, and municipal tax assessment matters. Alexis’ restructuring and insolvency experience includes assisting clients in a broad range of industries who are experiencing financial difficulty to effectively and...
Andrew has a general corporate and commercial law practice, with a particular emphasis on banking and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, air transportation and the education sector. He assists clients in successfully planning, negotiating and implementing a broad range of business and commercial transactions. Andrew works with clients in numerous industries and sectors, including banking and financial services, manufacturing, education, natural resource exploration and development, ser...
With 19 years of experience in corporate finance and securities law, Angela is sought out for her ability to efficiently manage complex, time-sensitive transactions and provide pragmatic advice to executives and boards on compliance, governance and risk management issues. As an experienced securities lawyer, Angela advises domestic and international companies across industries in connection with strategic M&A, stock exchange listings, compliance, joint ventures, financings, corporate gove...
Aubrey is a partner based in our Calgary office and practices in all areas of commercial real estate including purchase, sale, development, financing and leasing. He has extensive experience in complex real estate transactions including both pre-development lands and lands with existing office, retail or industrial developments. He has completed transactions with various unique aspects such as environmental contamination, appurtenant water licenses, long term ground leases for development, sy...
Brad Armstrong, QC has extensive experience in civil litigation, aboriginal law, administrative and constitutional law, and environmental law. He represents clients involved with land use issues, project development, regulatory approvals, environmental assessments, First Nations consultation, and litigation, in a range of natural resource industries including mining, forestry, agriculture, aquaculture, energy, independent power projects, oil and gas, and transportation. His practice extends t...
Brian is a lawyer and a registered professional forester in the Vancouver office. With more than 35 years’ experience serving British Columbia’s forestry sector, Brian works in both the Coastal and Interior forest industries advising on all facets of major forestry legislation and the replacement of key forest tenures. Brian represents both large and small, publicly-traded and privately-held, Coast and Interior Forest Act tenure holders and their trade associations, forestry profe...
Clara practices primarily in the area of energy and regulatory law with a focus on public utility regulation and administrative law. She advises private sector, public sector and government clients on a broad range of matters before regulatory boards and the courts including, market rules and compliance, rate design, regulatory requirements and facilities applications. Clara has appeared as counsel before administrative tribunals in BC, Alberta and the Northwest Territories and regularly assi...
Cliff is the Managing Partner of Lawson Lundell. Cliff’s practice is focused on environmental and aboriginal litigation. His clients include companies in the forestry, manufacturing, mining, real estate development, hydro-electric power generation industries. Cliff has represented his clients in environmental prosecutions, administrative actions, permit appeals, environmental assessments and has helped clients respond to a wide variety of environmental investigations and prosecutions. C...
Crispin is a member of the firm’s Business Law, Corporate Finance & Securities, Energy and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups. His practice is focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities transactions, including public and private share and debt financings, initial public offerings, business combinations and stock exchange listings. Additionally, Crispin has acted as coun...
In 1995, Dominic founded the Kelowna business law firm of Thiessen Petraroia with William Thiessen. Over the succeeding years, the firm grew and became a well established business law firm in the Okanagan. On March 1, 2008 Petraroia Langford LLP merged with Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP and this was the first merger in Farris’ 105 year history. Dominic remains the Managing Partner of Farris’ Kelowna office. Dominic provides legal counsel to a wide range of businesses and...
Dylana practices in the areas of family law, estate litigation and commercial litigation. Dylana joined the Vancouver office as an associate in 2001 and relocated from Vancouver to Kelowna in 2012 to head up the litigation group in the Kelowna office. Dylana’s family law practice includes all matters affecting families in British Columbia such as separation, divorce, property division, common law trusts, spousal support, child support, guardianship, residency, and parenting time. Dylana...
Ed practices in the real estate and municipal law fields with a specialty in real estate development. Ed has assisted clients in such projects as: redevelopment of industrial sites to permit multi-family residential uses; heritage designation and density bonusing arrangements; rezoning and redevelopment of shopping centres; development of office and industrial parks; development of numerous condominium projects; development and marketing of strata title hotels; restructuring of strata corpora...
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Alastair’s practice focuses on regulatory, environmental and Indigenous law. He advises clients on the regulatory aspects of the full life-cycle of project development and operation, including: obtaining project and facility approvals environmental impact assessments consultation with Indigenous groups and other stakeholders toll and tariff applications environmental monitoring and compliance matters contaminated site remediation facility decommissioning and site reclamation Alastair re...
Alixandra is an associate in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group in our Calgary office, with a particular focus on civil litigation and indigenous law. Alixandra has assisted with proceedings before all levels of court in Saskatchewan, the Federal Court of Appeal, and various federal and provincial regulatory bodies and administrative tribunals. She has also appeared before the Provincial Court of British Columbia for criminal and family law matters.
Andrew assists domestic and international clients on a broad range of corporate legal matters with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactions. He has experience advising public and private companies and private equity funds on share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, reorganizations, financings and various other corporate proceedings. Andrew also regularly drafts and reviews commercial agreements including shareholders agreements, confidentiality agreemen...
Anna is a lawyer in the litigation and dispute resolution group. She focuses primarily on civil and commercial litigation and acts for clients in a broad range of industries. Anna has appeared before all levels of court in British Columbia and has experience in cases involving contract and negligence claims, product liability, insurance litigation, and benefit disputes.
Brendan is a member of the Real Estate and Corporate/Commercial Law Groups at Lawson Lundell. As a real estate lawyer, Brendan advises clients on a variety of real property matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development, and commercial leasing. Brendan also has a keen interest in and assists clients with unique and often complex real estate issues involving Crown land, First Nations, railways, pipelines, mines, hydroelectric generation and transmission facilities, bioga...
Camille is a lawyer in the litigation and disputes group, where she focuses primarily on commercial and real estate litigation. Camille acts for a variety of clients in breach of contract and negligence claims, in addition to representing companies and shareholders in various corporate disputes, including those related to corporate governance. She also represents clients with respect to commercial lease disputes, claims arising out of other real estate transactions, real estate agent services...
Cory Sully is an associate in both the Labour, Employment and Human Rights Group and the Privacy and Data Management Group in Vancouver. Cory provides practical and strategic advice to clients regarding various issues relating to employment, human rights, workers compensation and privacy law. Cory’s litigation experience includes assisting clients with responding to wrongful dismissal actions, bullying and harassment complaints, and discrimination complaints. Cory has appeared before th...
Gillian has a broad corporate and securities law practice, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Gillian advises clients on a variety of domestic and international transactions, including public and private acquisitions and divestitures, debt and equity financings and corporate reorganizations. In addition to transactional work, Gillian regularly advises clients on complex commercial agreements and securities regulatory matters, including continuous disclosure obligations.
Grace practices general civil litigation and dispute resolution in Lawson Lundell LLP’s Calgary office. Building a broad litigation practice, Grace regularly assists in various energy, commercial, administrative, insolvency and regulatory matters by drafting, advocating, and conducting research for legal opinions. Grace has appeared before the Provincial Court of Alberta and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta and has assisted in matters before all levels of court in Alberta. Pr...
Jennie Buchanan is an associate in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group in Calgary. Jennie has a general commercial litigation practice, with a focus on commercial arbitration, employment litigation, and securities litigation. Jennie has appeared as counsel before all Alberta Courts, and the Alberta and Ontario Securities Commissions. In her commercial arbitration practice, Jennie assists clients involved in complex construction disputes, both domestically and internationall...
Joel Schachter is a lawyer in the litigation and dispute resolution group. He has assisted with matters before all levels of court in British Columbia, and in various forms of alternative dispute resolution including mediation and arbitration. Joel has experience with cases involving contract and negligence claims, construction disputes and insurance litigation.
Julia Winters is a partner practicing business law with Lawson Lundell’s China Group. She regularly assists clients with acquiring, selling and financing real property in a variety of asset classes, including office buildings, shopping centres, wineries, residential apartment buildings and industrial land, and advises on corporate and partnership structuring matters for various real estate transactions. She also prepares and advises both landlords and tenants on commercial leases. In ad...
Lisa is an associate in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell LLP. Her practice is focused on real estate and condominium law. Lisa assists clients with a wide variety of real property matters including acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, real estate development and commercial leasing. She also has experience in various strata corporation matters, such as drafting bylaws, policies and resolutions, and providing practical advice to numerous condominium owner, section and s...
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Chris advises on acquisitions and dispositions of mines and mining companies, project development and mine operations throughout Canada and the world. He has assisted in the structuring and negotiation of hundreds of transactions, including farm-ins and joint ventures, corporate acquisitions and mergers and royalty sales. He has extensive experience with all legal aspects of the development, construction and financing of mines (including diamonds, coal and uranium), royalties, marketing contr...
Christine practices environmental and aboriginal law, providing advice in respect of major project development, environmental assessment, permitting, operational matters and acquisition and sale of industrial projects. She provides specialized mining industry advice, representing clients with respect to permitting and regulatory aspects of exploration, development, operation and closure of mining projects. Her other clients include energy, forestry and other natural resource sector companies,...
Craig Ferris, QC is a litigator and acts for clients in commercial and business disputes. His particular areas of specialization include shareholder remedies, trust, pension and fiduciary disputes, securities and transactional litigation, product liability, mining disputes and real estate litigation. Craig has appeared in all levels of court in British Columbia as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also acted in private arbitrations and in administrative settings including before the...
David practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial and corporate finance and securities law. David has extensive experience focused on advising private and public company clients on transactional and corporate commercial matters, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, as well as corporate governance issues. He works with clients at all stages of development, from senior public companies to startups and entrepreneurs.
Greg is both a lawyer and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) who specializes in business law, mergers and acquisitions and taxation. Greg’s combined legal, taxation and accounting background enables him to advise clients on both the commercial and taxation aspects of transactions. Clients and their financial advisers particularly value his unique ability to converse with them at a high level on financial and accounting matters. A significant part of Greg’s practice is f...
Jeff is a litigation partner in the Vancouver office, with a practice focused on energy and regulated utilities. He appears regularly before administrative tribunals such as the Alberta and BC Utilities Commissions. He also acts for clients in the insurance, manufacturing and retail sectors at all levels of court, in arbitrations and in mediations. Jeff was the head of the Litigation Group at Lawson Lundell in 2012-2013. Jeff is also a regular contributor to the Project Law Blog , a resource ...
Jim is a leading British Columbia practitioner in property tax and expropriation law with extensive experience since 1993 providing strategic advice and litigating appeals for a wide range of clients before tribunals and courts relating to: Imposition and management of property taxes, property transfer taxes, mineral taxes and other commodity taxes on Crown, municipal, private and First Nations lands; Imposition and management of payments of grants in lieu of property taxes; Expropriation of ...
John is a member of the firm’s Aboriginal, Environmental, and Project Development practice groups. His practice includes advising private sector and government clients throughout Canada on Aboriginal, environmental, regulatory and natural resources matters. John advises oil sands developers, conventional oil and gas companies, railways, mining companies, utilities and other resource developers on environmental regulatory matters and on Aboriginal law matters, including Aboriginal consul...
John’s practice has substantial transaction-based and project-based components. It also embraces ongoing advisory work to business clients ranging from large corporations to family businesses to fiduciaries. John has also had significant experience in directing major litigation for clients. John advises clients who operate in a range of industries, including mining, bulk terminal operations, forestry, transportation, and in the financial institution, private investment and energy sector...
Keith advises private sector, public sector and government clients on Aboriginal law and regulatory matters. He has appeared as counsel before numerous regulatory tribunals and all levels of Superior and Appellate Courts (both Federal and Provincial), including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has acted for clients in a number of natural resource industries including hydro-electric generation and transmission, oil and gas, mining, aquaculture, forestry, transportation and independent power pro...
Ken practices exclusively in the firm’s pensions and employee benefits law practice group. He advises pension and benefit plan sponsors on a range of legal and regulatory issues affecting their plans. He advises on pension plan governance and compliance monitoring projects, regulatory applications and the handling of pension disputes. He works with managers in the drafting and maintenance of pension documents, including plan texts, trust declarations, statements of investment policies, ...
Lisa is a partner in the firm’s Pensions and Employee Benefits Group and Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Information Group. Pension and Employee Benefits Lisa’s pension and employee benefits practice has a special emphasis on multi-employer pension plans and health and welfare trusts, usually sponsored for specific industries. Lisa represents dozens of board of trustees and corporate plan sponsors in both the public and private sector and in a wide variety of industries. Lisa...
Mandeep’s practice deals mainly with banks and private lenders in both secured and unsecured financing transactions. Mandeep has experience in the preparation and negotiation of loan and security documentation for real estate financing, including construction lending and permanent financing, subordinated debt financing and related intercreditor arrangements, leasing and other asset-based financing structures, hedging, securitization and aircraft finance. He serves as counsel to insuranc...
Michael has over 20 years experience representing both lenders and borrowers in a wide range of transactions involving debt financing, including operating and term credit facilities provided by banks and other financial institutions (both individually or as part of a syndicate), acquisition financing, including leveraged buyout transactions which frequently involve multiple tiers of secured and unsecured debt, commercial lease financing, asset-based loan facilities and subordinated or mezzani...
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by Javier Cremades
The recent rise of “stakeholder capitalism” shows the way forward to solving today’s energy crisis and working toward a carbon-free future. Are companies and governments up to the challenge?
Hobbling the War Machine
by Shawn C.D. Neylan
Since late spring, the Canadian government has been actively sanctioning business and political entities, as well as numerous individuals, with alleged ties to Vladimir Putin and the Russian military, including some in Belarus. You can’t tell the players without a scorecard—so here’s an overview.
The Antipodean Advantage
by Gordon Grieve and Tony Britten-Jones
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Navigating Rough Waters
by Roberto Ovalle and Sergio Díez
Chile has a solid foundation to welcome and protect foreign investment even in turbulent times. Its strong network of international treaties helps provide stability beyond the political contingency.
It’s Official: Options for Challenging “Official Marks” in Canada
by Jamie-Lynn Kraft and Philip Lapin
“Official marks” are a strangely obscure corner of Canadian intellectual-property law. What are they, what explains their strength and what can a business owner in search of a trademark do to challenge them?
Growing Canadian Business Abroad
by Didier Culat
Canadian entrepreneurs looking to expand their businesses beyond the geographic confines of their home dominion must consider a vast range of questions to ensure they’re fit to branch out. Here’s a quick primer.
Latinflation
by Alejandra Daroch, Domingo Russi and Jaime Carey Astaburuaga
Long a beacon of economic stability in South America, Chile has been buffeted lately by the global rise in inflation. Can a key element of its monetary policy help it weather the storm?
The Future of Trade is Digital
by Alan de Rochefort-Reynolds, Daniel Allman and Jo Feldman
Digital information increasingly drives bilateral and multilateral trade throughout the Indo-Pacific region. It behooves countries to devise agreements governing the use and exchange of the enormous amounts of vital data generated every day.
The Carbon Conundrum
by Martin Hamer and Natalie Kopplow
Companies that trade internationally might soon face a “carbon tariff” when importing certain goods into the European Union. Why is the EU doing this—and how will it affect world trade?
Competitive Balance
by David Feldman and Peter Flynn
Major amendments to Canada’s Competition Act were rushed through Parliament this June with scarcely any debate. They will likely have enormous antitrust ramifications—and businesses had better be ready.
Caveat Sanctions and Export Controls
by Carsten Bormann and Stephan Müller
Increasingly strict global sanctions and export-control regulations add a new layer of potential peril to M&A deals. A guide to expanding due diligence to ensure that malfeasance, whether intentional or accidental, doesn’t end up scuttling the agreement.
Rental House of Cards
by Tyler D’Angelo
The pandemic devastated uncountable businesses worldwide. A recent court case involving some of Canada’s most venerable companies and pension funds sheds light on the stringency of the country’s commercial leases—and the judiciary’s reluctance to meddle in sophisticated commercial contracts amid a “black swan” event.
