The Asia Pacific region continues to be a primary driver of the global economy. Recognizing the vital importance of this region, Lawson Lundell’s Asia Pacific Group further strengthens and expands our range of services offered to existing and new clients.
Our group has significant experience advising Asia Pacific clients with inbound investments into Canada, as well as assisting Canadian clients looking to do business and expand into the Asia Pacific market.
With our office in downtown Vancouver, a vital economic hub for trans-Pacific commerce and strategic capital, the group brings the expertise required to foster cross-border business relationships.
Clients benefit from our group’s specific experience in navigating the structural, regulatory, and tax challenges presented by cross-border business, coupled with an intrinsic awareness of regional business customs and fluency in multiple languages.
Our team brings multi-sector experience across technology, real estate, and natural resources (including mining and forestry), complementing our core corporate, transactional, and advisory capabilities.
Why Choose Lawson Lundell
- Trans-Pacific Gateway Advantage: Operating out of Vancouver, a critical intersection for strategic Asian capital, the group acts as strategic partners to help clients identify and execute cross-border opportunities.
- Multilingual & Cultural Fluency: Our lawyers offer regional insight, combining native fluency in multiple languages across the Pacific Rim with a nuanced understanding of regional business customs.
- Full-Service Cross-Border Execution: We combine specialized cross-border structuring with the full-service capabilities of a premier Canadian corporate law firm, with a strong network of partner firms around the world.
Core Services
Our Asia Pacific Group provides strategic legal counsel, structural optimization, and regulatory advisory across the following core sector and transactional areas:
Natural Resources
- Mining: Advising on mining project financing and development, navigating environmental assessment processes, and managing regulatory challenges in Western Canada's unique legal landscape.
- Forestry: Advising Asian investors in the Canadian forestry industry on commercial operations, regulatory compliance and market expansion.
- Oil and Gas: Advising on major and junior producers as counsel on exploration, acquisition/disposition and production of conventional oil and gas, oil sands, shale gas as well as transportation of oil, gas and LNG. Advising Asian investors in the oil and gas industry.
Real Estate
- Investment: Providing full-service legal support to commercial and industrial property buyers, sellers, and landlords, offering local market strategic positioning for Asian investments.
- Tenants and Users: Assisting new market entrants with leasing and tenant improvement construction, providing not just legal advice but market context.
- Financing: Providing advice, documentation, execution and enforcement for Asian lenders in the Canadian real estate market.
Technology
- Corporate: Delivering full-service counsel to emerging and established technology companies on market entry, venture capital investment, and strategic local opportunities.
- Intellectual Property: Providing strategic advice and prosecution services on intellectual property matters to Asian technology companies and investors.
Mergers, Acquisitions & Private Equity
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A): Advising early-stage ventures, international corporations, and investment funds on creative structuring and documentation for cross-border transactions and joint ventures.
- Private Equity & Venture Capital: Advising fund managers and institutional investors on fund formation, fund management, market-standard terms, private equity/venture capital investments, and regulatory compliance for dealers, advisors, and investment fund managers.
Cross-Border Tax Strategy
- International Tax & Structuring: Developing sophisticated tax plans for cross-border transactions, corporate reorganizations, structured finance, resource taxation, and M&A involving Canada and Asia.
Private Wealth
- International Private Wealth: Create and implement cross-border planning strategies that address each client’s unique circumstances, taking into account challenges and opportunities presented by multi-national nature of families, businesses and assets.
Contact Our Group
To discuss your specific business needs or learn more about how our legal team can support your operations, please contact a member of our Asia-Pacific team.