Practice Focus
- Business Law
- Transactional work, including structuring and implementation of share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, plans of arrangement, amalgamations, private equity and venture capital transactions and other transactions in a broad range of sectors
- Formation and organization of corporations, partnerships, special purpose vehicles, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other co-ownership structures, including the preparation of shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements and other governance documents
- Structuring and implementation of corporate and other reorganizations
- Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of corporate and commercial contracts
- Corporate governance
- Franchises, Dealerships & Distributorships
- Acquisition and disposition of franchise businesses
- Start-Up and Early-Stage Companies
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Western Ontario, Bachelor of Laws, 1992
- University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Commerce, 1989
Bar Admission
- Alberta 2001
- British Columbia 1993
Professional Associations
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
Presentations
- Co-presenter, M&A Transactions: Private, Public & Acquisition Facilities, BD&P Client Seminar, October 2015
- Panel member, Using Transaction Insurance to Solve Risk Allocation in the Current M&A Transaction Environment, BD&P Client Seminar co-hosted with Gallagher Energy Risk Services and Ironshore Canada, June 2015
Professional & Firm Involvement
- Member, Finance Committee, BD&P
