Firm Details:
Managing Partner: Clifford Proudfoot, KC
Number of partners: 100
Number of other lawyers: 110
Languages: English, French, Cantonese, German, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu
Offices: Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Yellowknife, NT; Kelowna, BC
Firm Overview:
Lawson Lundell is a full-service business law firm, known for the firm's practical and strategic approach to legal services. The firm is a recognised leader in mining, energy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, banking, pensions and employee benefits, real estate and tax. The firm is equally strong in regulatory and commercial litigation with recognised experience in indigenous, environmental, labour and employment, and insolvency. The firm's lawyers are repeatedly recognised in The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada as among the best in their fields, and have achieved significant recognition in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Litigation and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
With offices in Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary and Yellowknife, Lawson Lundell provides advice and assistance to public and private sector clients doing business in Western and Northern Canada, nationally and internationally, on a broad range of complex business law issues involving various sectors of the economy. The firm is a member of the World Services Group, which is a global network of leading professional service firms, and has strong working relationships with other law firms in Canada and abroad. The approach and philosophy that guides the firm's legal work has been developed through decades of working with its clients and understanding their business and industry objectives. Responsiveness is critical to clients, so the firm's first commitment is to provide exceptional and timely service.
Main Areas of Practice
With over 210 lawyers, Lawson Lundell provides services to clients in many industry sectors and across a variety of practice areas including:
- Asia Pacific Group
- Banking & Debt Financing
- Board Advisory & Corporate Governance
- Business Law
- Clean Energy & Technology
- Corporate Commercial Law
- Construction & Engineering
- Corporate Finance & Securities
- Energy: Electricity
- Energy: Oil & Gas
- Energy: Power
- Environmental & Regulatory
- Estate Planning and Litigation
- Financial Services
- Forest Products
- Indigenous Law
- Insolvency & Restructuring
- Intellectual Property
- Healthcare
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Labour & Employment
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Northern Canada
- Project Development: Natural Resources
- Pension & Employee Benefits
- Private Equity
- Public Utility & Regulatory
- Real Estate & Municipal Planning
- Research & Opinions
- Social Impact and Business Sustainability
- Tax
- Technology
- Venture Capital
