We’ll not only be there for any legal advice on day-to-day matters, but stick by your side to strategically navigate the disasters (they happen).
Through the good times, the bad, and sometimes the ugly.
General Legal Counsel.
The day-to-day:
- Construction contract drafting & review
- e.g. review of CCDC, CCA, MMCD, MOTI & BC Hydro standard-form contracts
- Construction contract commercial management
- e.g. claims for change/delay, requests for BC Builders Lien Act certificates of completion/holdback release
- Employment & occupational health & safety matters
- e.g. employee contract drafting, employee disciplinary issues & terminations, WorkSafeBC complaints
- Environmental issues
- e.g. site permitting & contaminated site remediation
- Municipal permitting processes & property development matters
- e.g. applications for development/building/occupancy permits, BC Building Code/Vancouver Building By-law issues, crane swing & shoring/underpinning easement agreements, development covenants
- Procurement & tendering processes
- e.g. review of RFP/RFQ/RFI responses, bid compliance review
- Project insurance & bonding matters
- e.g. insurance claims under builder’s risk/course of construction policies, claims against performance/labour & material/bid bonds
- Residential builder licensing & BC Homeowner Protection Act Regulation 2-5-10 warranty issues
Corporate-Commercial Matters.
Growing your business:
- Capital asset acquisitions & financing
- Commercial lease review
- Corporate & partnership/JV structuring
- Corporate reorganizations & share rollovers
- Incorporations & corporate records management
- Private company share issuances
- Shareholder agreements
Litigation & Dispute Resolution Services.
The disputes:
- Administrative tribunal matters
- e.g. BC Employment Standards Branch complaints, Engineers and Geoscientists BC investigations & disciplinary hearings, WorkSafeBC investigations, BC Building Code Appeal Board appeals
- Civil litigation & alternative dispute resolution processes
- e.g. BC Supreme Court (Civil) & BC Provincial Court (Small Claims) proceedings, mediations, arbitration proceedings
- Pre-judgment security for claims
- e.g. claims of builders liens, warehouse liens, CPLs & pre-judgment garnishing orders
- Post-judgment creditor remedies
- e.g. seizure & sale of debtor personal property, garnishment of debtor accounts
What if my legal matter requires other professionals to assist?
Sometimes your matter may also involve specific technical issues that require other (non-lawyer) professionals to provide a professional opinion or consult with in the course of handling your matter (e.g. technical engineering issues or valuation matters).
If such an issue arises while handling your matter, we have an extensive network of professional engineers, accountants and other construction claims professionals that can likely assist.
What if you can’t handle my legal matter?
Sometimes, your matter may involve specific legal issues that require another lawyer that we may not be able advise on (e.g. tax issues or novel legal questions).
If such an issue is present or arises while handling your matter, we have an extensive referral network of like-minded lawyers with niche expertise in many of these areas that can likely assist.