Brian Robert Canfield

Brian Robert Canfield: Attorney with Farris LLP
Attorney Awards
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer Reviewed
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Biography

Brian Canfield is a strategic advisor for his business clients. He focuses on facilitating opportunities and solving problems on their behalf by combining his extensive legal experience, business background, and negotiation skills with diligence, creativity, and common sense.

He is often asked to handle difficult negotiations, tight timelines, or similar challenges for his clients in buying and selling businesses or real estate, raising equity and debt financing, facilitating regulatory approvals, settling shareholder or other disputes, restructuring, governance and other matters.

Brian has a wide range of experience in assisting both public and private clients, including Boards and Special Committees, with a special emphasis on acting for established and emerging founders/entrepreneurs. His clients operate in many key industries including automotive, construction, financial, food and beverage, hospitality, infrastructure, real estate, resource, and technology.

Year of Call

1991

Legal Recognition

•The Best Lawyers in Canada (2026)
•The Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” in Securities Law (2025)
•Lexpert Leading Lawyers in Canada (2025)
•Lexpert Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers (2024)
•Martindale-Hubbell Ranking (BV)

In the News

Recognition

61 Farris Lawyers Recognized in the 2026 Best Lawyers in Canada Directory

September 4, 2025

Recognition

28 Farris Lawyers Named in the 2025 Lexpert Directory

March 11, 2025

Recognition

61 Farris Lawyers Recognized in the 2025 Best Lawyers in Canada Directory

August 29, 2024

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Areas of Practice (12)

  • Corporate & Commercial
  • Corporate Finance & Securities
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Real Estate
  • Private Equity
  • Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
  • Emerging Companies & Start-ups
  • Hospitality & Leisure
  • Business
  • Contracts & Agreements
  • Land Use & Zoning
  • Securities Offerings

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
University of British Columbia, B.Comm., 1987; University of British Columbia, Finance, 1987
Law School Attended:
University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1990
Year of First Admission:
1991
Admission:
1991, British Columbia; 1995, Washington; 2007, Alberta
Memberships:

Affiliations

•Member of the Law Society of British Columbia
•Member of the Washington State Bar Association
•Member of the Law Society of Alberta

ISLN:
901623230

Peer Reviews

4.0/5.0 (1 review)
Peer Reviewed

  • Legal Knowledge

    4.0/5.0

  • Analytical Capability

    4.0/5.0

  • Judgment

    4.0/5.0

  • Communication

    4.0/5.0

  • Legal Experience

    4.0/5.0
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Affiliations

Lex Mundi

Location

  • Vancouver, BC
    Pacific Centre South , 25th Floor, 700 W Georgia Street
    Vancouver, BC V7Y 1B3
     Canada

    604-661-9362 Phone
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604-661-9349  Fax

www.farris.com

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