Ms Paulina Kam > Gowling WLG > Vancouver, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Gowling WLG
SUITE 2300
1055 DUNSMUIR STREET
VANCOUVER, BC V7X 1J1
Canada

Position

Partner

Career

Paulina Kam is a partner in Gowling WLG’s Vancouver office. She has extensive experience in real estate development (including master-planned communities, air space parcel subdivisions, multi-family, residential, commercial, and mixed-use developments), commercial lending, commercial and investment real estate, general business law, and commercial and residential conveyancing. Paulina regularly advises developers on a broad range of real estate development matters including site acquisition, land assemblies, financing, rezoning, and subdivision and servicing requirements. She acts primarily for developers and lending institutions and her clients include some of British Columbia’s most successful and prominent development companies and lending institutions.

Paulina co-leads the firm’s strata corporation windup group. With her extensive experience in real estate and condominium law, she has advised and assisted multiple strata corporations in the complex strata windup process.

Paulina is an active member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Real Estate, Banking and Business Law sections. She has also co-chaired the Annual CLE Residential Real Estate Conference.

Paulina was a national caliber track and field athlete and now enjoys participating in competitive volleyball in her spare time. She appreciates experiencing the various cultures of the world, traveling at every opportunity, delving into the wonderful and complex world of wine, and is a home foodie.

Having traveled extensively abroad as well as having resided in Asia, Paulina is conversationally fluent in Cantonese and Japanese, and is refining her rudimentary French and Spanish.

Languages

English, Cantonese, Japanese

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Real estate

(Leading individuals)

Paulina KamGowling WLG

Global firm Gowling WLG channels the bench strength of its 7 national locations to advise multinational development companies, financial institutions, national retailers, Canadian and international pension funds, First Nations, Crown corporations, REITs, private utilities and health care institutions, on a diverse span of matters across the practice area. They range from real estate acquisitions and dispositions, master planned community developments (an area in which the firm shows particular expertise), joint ventures and the leasing of commercial, retail, industrial and hotel properties to construction, land-use planning and large-scale industrial, airport, and shopping centre redevelopments. The practice is led by Joel Camley, who brings extensive experience in multi-unit mixed use, office tower, hotel and airport projects. Murray Braaten provides expertise to developers and lending institutions in major commercial, real estate and resort investment and development matters, along with Paulina Kam, who, additionally, handles site acquisition, land assemblies rezoning and subdivision and servicing requirements. Pamela Green departed in May 2023. All lawyers mentioned work in the Vancouver office.