Practice Areas & Industries: Lawson Lundell LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Business law is a cornerstone of Lawson Lundell’s practice. We are recognized as one of the leading business law firms in Western Canada, providing a full range of advice and services to business clients. Within the business law grouping, significant areas of expertise include commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and private equity. We have expertise in a number of areas including competition law, construction, corporate governance, franchising, fund formation and administration and public-private partnerships, as well as in the related areas of banking and debt financing, insolvency, pensions and tax.

We serve clients across most industry sectors. Visit our Industries page to see our services offered to particular industries. Other industries with which we have extensive experience include aviation, communications, manufacturing, retailing, and transportation, including railway and operations.

A depth of experience working for all types of business organizations, local, national and international, has equipped us well to help clients deal with the ever changing landscape they face, and with the particular difficulties of the current climate. To co-ordinate our services in these troubled times we have formed a new Financial Recovery Group to assist both companies whose suppliers and customers may face liquidity problems and companies which themselves have financial difficulties.

Services Available

Commercial Law:

• Entity formation, including shareholder and partnership agreements
• Customer, supplier, distributor and franchise arrangements
• Financing arrangements
• Transportation arrangements
• Management arrangements
• Dispute resolution

Competiton:

• Providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, pricing policies, distribution, licensing and other similar arrangements

Corporate Governance:

• Board structure and composition
• Fiduciary duties
• Disclosure obligations
• Conflicts of interest
• Codes of conduct and whistle blowing policies
• Board committees, including audit and compensation
• Special committees of independent directors
• Corporate transactions, including related party transactions, going private transactions and take-over bids
• Shareholder litigation

Public Private Partnerships and Infrastructure:

We have acted for private consortia, significant contractors, third party lenders and governmental entities in various P3 and infrastructure projects. Experience ranges from:

• commencement of the procurement process through contract award
• financial close and project construction
• purchase and sale of project entities

For more information, please contact:

Gordon Craig at gcraig@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9155

L. Neil Marshall at nmarshall@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9162

Kenneith Flowers at kflowers@lawsonlundell.com (403) 218.7524