David A. Allard

David practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance and securities law. David has extensive experience focused on advising private and public company clients on transactional and general corporate commercial matters, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, as well as corporate governance issues and regulatory and stock exchange compliance.

Recognition and Ranking

• Best Lawyers in Canada: recognized for corporate law
• Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory: BV Peer Review rated
• Lexpert Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada;
• recognized for corporate mid-market law
• recognized as one of the “Top 40 Repeatedly Recommended Canadian Corporate Mid-Market lawyers”
• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory;
• most frequently recognized as a Leading Practitioner for corporate mid-market law
• consistently recognized as a Leading Practitioner for corporate commercial law

Professional Activities

• “Advising British Columbia Business” (published by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia), Member of the Editorial Board
• Regular lecturer on business law matters and contributor to continuing legal education publications
• Co-Chair of annual "Business Basics" Continuing Legal Education program for junior solicitors in B.C.
• International Bar Association, Member

Bar Admissions

• British Columbia (1987)

Education

• University of Oxford (B.C.L., 1988)
• University of British Columbia (LL.B., 1986)

David has represented and worked closely with significant businesses in a variety of industries, including forestry, biotechnology, financial services and retail, as well as with emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs.  Major representative transactional work includes the sale and purchase of numerous large scale manufacturing and processing operations and business; multijurisdictional structured sale transactions; private equity and venture capital investments; convertible debt financings; early stage financings and corporate restructuring transactions and proceedings.