Practice Focus
- Banking and Finance
- Syndicated and bilateral financings for chartered banks, financial companies and borrowers
- Secured and unsecured financings
- Domestic and cross-border financings
- Project financing
- ISDA Master Agreement Transactions
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Alberta, Bachelor of Laws (with Distinction), 2008
- University of Alberta, Undergraduate studies in Criminology, 2002-2005
Bar Admission
Professional Associations
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Executive Member, Canadian Bar Association Insolvency Sub-Section (2010 – spring 2015)
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
Honours & Recognition
- Named in The Legal 500 Canada as a recommended lawyer in Banking and Finance, 2020-2022
Presentations
- Presenter, Opinions and Forbearance Agreements,BD&P Banking Seminar, Current Issues for Junior Bankers: a Four-Part Seminar Series, March 22, 2016
- Presenter, Security Concepts Under the Alberta PPSA, BD&P Banking Seminar, Current Issues for Junior Bankers: a Four-Part Seminar Series, March 17, 2016
- Presenter, Working With External Counsel - What Should You Consider?, BD&P Banking Seminar, Current Issues for Junior Bankers: a Four-Part Seminar Series, March 15, 2016
- Presenter, Borrowing Base Reviews and Financial Covenants: What it all Means and What Happens if You Don't Make the Cut? Canadian Bar Association, Young Lawyers' Sub-Section Meeting, Nov. 19, 2015
- Co-Presenter (with Bruce Edgelow, ATB Financial), Borrowing Base Reviews and Financial Covenants: What it all Means and What Happens if You Don't Make the Cut? Canadian Bar Association, Natural Resources Sub-Section Meeting, Oct. 14, 2015
- Panel Member, Mitigating Directors' Exposure for Personal Environmental Liability, BD&P Client Seminar, Feb.11, 2014
- Co-Presenter (with Carole Hunter), Supreme Court of Canada decision on Newfoundland and Labrador v. AbitibiBowater Inc. et al., Canadian Bar Association, Insolvency Sub-Section Meeting, Oct. 15, 2013
- Co-Presenter (with Carole Hunter), Supreme Court of Canada decision on Newfoundland and Labrador v. AbitibiBowater Inc. et al., Canadian Bar Association, Business Sub-Section Meeting, Sept. 19, 2013
Firm & Professional Involvement
- Substitute Lecturer (Financing and Priority of Creditors), Business Law Course, University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education, Winter Semester, 2014 to present
Community Involvement
- Board of Directors & Treasurer, Cowtown Opera Company, 2019-2020
