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Lawson Lundell’s experience in providing legal services north of the 60th parallel spans over 40 years. With our offices in Yellowknife, Calgary and Vancouver, we bring our northern experience and local knowledge as well as the full resources of our firm to support clients’ needs and major project development in northern Canada. Our Yellowknife office provides a full range of legal services and many of our lawyers in Vancouver and Calgary are called to the bar in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon.
We have been particularly active in development and in the areas of mining, energy and other natural resources. We have broad experience with respect to the unique characteristics of Northern business in matters involving land tenure, environmental regulation, government relations, constitutional law, aboriginal law and related First Nations economic development issues including benefits agreements and litigation. We also advise regularly with respect to labour and employment issues, personal tax and business tax including property tax.
Examples of our work include:
acting as project counsel to a major diamond mine established in the Northwest Territories including all commercial, government relations, environmental, aboriginal and litigation advice and support throughout the developmental and consultation phases of the project;
acting as project counsel in connection with the development of several gold mining projects in Nunavut;
providing external advice to territorial governments in connection with mine closures, general energy policy, electric industry structuring and natural gas pipeline issues;
commenced and successfully litigated a challenge to Northwest Territories electoral laws and boundaries under the Charter of Rights;
represented a material supplier in connection with a product liability claim involving damaged electric transmission lines;
represented a corporation in connection with the first corporate reorganization in the Northwest Territories pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangements Act;
advising various aboriginal groups with respect to governance issues, creation and structuring of business arms and providing corporate-commercial, labour and employment law and other legal services to such business organizations;
advising clients with respect to corporate reorganizations involving investments pursuant to the Risk Capital Investment Tax Credits Act; and
representing various municipalities and assist with legislative issues, enforcement issues, zoning issues and land transactions as well as significant litigation involving municipal issues.
View a listing of team members in this practice area.
For more information contact Chris G. Baldwin in our Vancouver office at 604.631.9151 or cbaldwin@lawsonlundell.com or Geoffrey Wiest in our Yellowknife office at 867.669.5544 or gwiest@lawsonlundell.com
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