Colin's practice focuses on owner/manager businesses and their legal issues, including business formation, acquisition and mergers, commercial contract review and preparation, employee issues, and commercial lease review, drafting and enforcement.
Colin also provides services in construction law, municipal law and trademark registration.
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Memberships & Professional Affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association
- Surrey Bar Association
Positions / Community Involvement
- Surrey Board of Trade, past director
- Whalley Business Improvement Association, member and past director
- Fraser Valley University Association, member and past director
- Surrey Rotary Club, member and past director
- Surrey Bar Association, member and past director
- Fraser Valley Executive Assocation, past president
Lectures / Publications / Seminars
- Continuing Legal Education of BC lecturer
- numerous seminars and presentations to community groups on a variety of legal topics
Representative Work
- commercial loan agreements
- buying and selling a business
- corporate reorganizations
- drafting or reviewing commercial leases
- termination and enforcement of leases
- termination of employees
- filing, prosecuting and defending against builders' liens
- trademark advice and registrations
Hobbies / Interests
- sailing—past commodore of the Surrey Sailing Club
- cycling
- skiing
Education
- Bachelor of Laws, University of British Columbia, 1978
- Faculty of Commerce Undergraduate Studies, 1972–1975
- Faculty of Arts, University of Victoria, 1970–1972
Years of Call & Jurisdiction
Called to the BC Bar in 1979
