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Aaron is a partner in the Kelowna - Landmark office of Lawson Lundell and a member of the firm's Corporate Commercial and Real Estate Groups. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, real estate development, bank lending, and wills and estates. Aaron has experience in a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, corporate reorganizations and various other corporate proceedings. He also assists clients drafting and/or reviewing commerc...
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...
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...
In his over 30 years of practice, Bryan has regularly advised banking and financial institution clients with respect to loan restructuring, insolvency, realization and recoveries. In this capacity, Bryan is particularly adept at conceiving and implementing strategies for the recovery of defaulted loans and regularly advises banking clients in relation to significant portfolios of impaired loans. Bryan has acted for Canadian Banks, specifically Bank of Montreal and HSBC Bank Canada, and privat...
Carolyn Simpson is a partner in the Corporate Commercial Group whose practice focuses on commercial transactions and business law, primarily in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other private commercial transactions and securities law. Carolyn has acted for a variety of US and Canadian private equity firms, oil and gas services, and midstream and upstream oil and gas producers. From 2021 through 2023, Carolyn was seconded as provisional General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for ...
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,...
Chris is a partner in Lawson Lundell's Kelowna - Landmark office and is a member of the firm's Labour, Employment & Human Rights, and Litigation & Dispute Resolution Groups. Chris’ labour and employment practice focuses on management-side labour and employment law. His practice includes advising and acting for clients on day-to-day labour and employment issues, mergers and acquisitions, grievances, arbitrations and mediations, human rights, employment standards, workers compensa...
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...
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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...
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...
Caitlin is a general civil and commercial litigator with Lawson Lundell in Vancouver, bringing to her practice a unique breadth and depth of experience in resolving complex commercial disputes, class actions, public law and regulatory matters, and appeals. Caitlin’s approach to law and litigation is defined by three elements — intellectual rigour, compelling advocacy, and warmth of personality — along with a sincere commitment to understanding and representing her clients&rs...
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...
Dana Kiefer is an associate in our Labour, Employment and Human Rights Group in Calgary. She approaches matters with common sense and focuses on providing practical advice tailored to each client’s unique business. She provides strategic advice on a wide range of workplace issues, including compliance with employment standards, human rights legislation, collective bargaining agreements, and workplace health and safety. She regularly works with our corporate lawyers to provide advice on ...
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.
James practices primarily in the areas of banking, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate commercial law. In his banking practice, James acts primarily for banks and private lenders in secured and unsecured financing and leasing transactions. He has experience with various syndicated and bi-lateral lending arrangements, including merger and acquisition finance as well as significant experience with distressed debt financing. His corporate transactional practice includes a wide range ...
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.
Kai is an associate in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell LLP. He practices regulatory law and commercial litigation. In his regulatory law practice, he advises and represents clients before regulatory tribunals, including the British Columbia Utilities Commission, the Alberta Utilities Commission, and the Canadian Energy Regulator. His work includes representing local and provincial public utilities, power and energy companies, and natural resource companies in provincial and federal reg...
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...
Louise McLeod is an associate in Lawson Lundell’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice focuses on general commercial litigation with an emphasis on estates and trusts litigation. She assists clients on a wide variety of matters, including wills variation, wills validity, capacity issues, unjust enrichment, constructive and resulting trusts, breach of fiduciary duties, committeeship applications, accountings and contract and property disputes. Louise has appeared befor...
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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 ...
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, ...
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...
For 30 years, Craig Dennis, Q.C. has represented clients in significant litigation matters at the trial and appellate levels. Craig is a partner at Dennis James Aitken LLP. His practice has a business focus with an emphasis on the effective resolution of complex commercial disputes. His litigation expertise includes the defense of class actions, professional liability, shareholder and related corporate disputes, product liability, land-related disputes, as well as administrative and constitut...
Scott Dawson is a partner in the litigation department and a trial lawyer experienced in the resolution of a broad range of commercial disputes. He regularly appears before British Columbia Courts as part of his business-focused civil litigation practice. His cases cover a wide variety of commercial litigation issues including supply contracts, insurance / reinsurance, directors' fiduciary duties, international and domestic agency disputes, shareholder disputes and corporate reorganizations. ...
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