Course Chair
Joseph A. Garcia — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
About the course chair
Joseph Garcia's practice focuses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He advises public and private companies, investment dealers, venture capital and private equity funds, and acts as independent counsel to boards of directors. Joseph has extensive experience advising on all types of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions including public and private equity and debt financings, take-over and issuer bids, share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, and regulatory and stock exchange compliance work. Prior to his career in law, Joseph worked in corporate finance with a national investment bank and in clinical research with a multi-national pharmaceutical company.
Joseph has been featured as a leading lawyer in publications including The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2017 (Biotechnology, Corporate Finance and Securities, Corporate Mid-Market, Private Equity, and Technology Transactions), the 2017 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Finance and Securities), Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business 2017 (Life Science), and The Best Lawyers in Canada 2017 (Biotechnology, Corporate, Corporate Governance Practice, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Securities).
Joseph has lectured extensively on corporate governance and advanced securities law topics. He has chaired CLEBC's Corporate Governance course since 2011 and is a regular contributor to CLEBC's Advanced Securities Law courses.
Planning Committee
Teresa Budd — Independent Governance Consultant, Watson Advisors Inc., Vancouver
Corey M. Dean — DuMoulin Black LLP, Vancouver
Darren Kozol — General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Peoples Trust Company, Vancouver
Xenia Kritsos — Interfor Corporation, Vancouver
Steven McKoen — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver and Bencher and Chair of Governance Committee, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Joel Schuster — Chief Legal Officer, SVP and Corporate Secretary, Avigilon Corporation, Vancouver
Faculty
Karim Amlani — Corporate Counsel, Hootsuite, Vancouver
Jill Bennett — Reporter, Global News and Talk Show Host, Newstalk 980 CKNW, Vancouver
Teresa Budd — Independent Governance Consultant, Watson Advisors Inc., Vancouver
Paige L. Davis — Lane Powell PC, Seattle, WA
Erin Dermer — Director, Media Relations and Social media, TELUS, Vancouver
Darren Kozol — General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Peoples Trust Company, Vancouver
Brian Mauch — CEO, BMC Networks Inc., Vancouver
Steven McKoen — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver and Bencher and Chair of Governance Committee, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Jonathan O'Connor — MLT Aikins LLP, Vancouver
Lucy H. Schilling — DuMoulin Black LLP, Vancouver
Susan Tomaine —Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
David Wotherspoon — MLT Aikins LLP, Vancouver
Mischa Zajtmann — Vice President and General Counsel, Red Eagle Mining Corporation, Vancouver
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