Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Partner

Sean represents and advises clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular focus on highly regulated industries and sectors.

He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, disposition and acquisition of businesses on behalf of Canadian, U.S. and international companies, cross-border transactions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and partnership agreements in a wide variety of industries.

His practice spans a variety of sectors, including infrastructure and energy projects, and power and electricity.

He advises financial institutions (including credit unions, trust companies and insurance companies) on regulatory and other corporate/commercial matters.

Sean also has extensive experience advising clients in the education and not-for-profit sectors.

From 2000 to 2003, Sean was foreign counsel with the law firm of Nishimura & Partners (now Nishimura & Asahi) in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice focused on cross-border commercial transactions.

Within BLG, Sean is the Regional Manager of our Corporate Commercial and Securities and Capital Markets Groups.

Professional Involvement

• Member, Clean Energy BC
• Member, American Bar Association (Business Law Section and Section of International Law)
• Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association – Joint-Committee Member for Canada
• Member, Association for Corporate Growth

Education

• LLB/BCL, McGill University, 1997 (included one-year exchange at the National University of Singapore)
• BA, University of Toronto, 1992

Bar Admission

• British Columbia, 1998

Community Involvement

• Chair and Director, Covenant House Vancouver, 2006-present
• Volunteer, BLG Reads to Kids
• Past Co-Chair, BLG’s United Way Campaign