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Your goals will drive the strategy used to respond to your dispute. Clients rely on us to resolve business disputes relating to contracts, commercial insurance, breach of fiduciary duty, professional negligence and many other issues. We’ll match your goals with the resources necessary to achieve them. This includes using powerful technology fore-discovery, task management and risk modeling, which lowers cost and enables speed at the critical early stages of litigation.
Chambers Review
Fasken houses a premier dispute resolution practice in BC that is recognised for its ability to handle a wide range of contentious matters. Its client roster consists of a number of prestigious names, including companies in the pharmaceutical and healthcare, technology, natural resources and financial services industries. The Vancouver-based team offers expertise across a myriad of commercial disputes, including construction, competition and shareholder litigation. The team has additional proficiency in ADR, public law and white-collar crime cases, impressing with its skilled representation of individual clients. The firm also features a robust class actions practice, often working in collaboration with its other national offices.
Work Highlights
- Fasken represented Teck Coal, Canada's largest mining company, in a complex environmental regulatory prosecution concerning allegations of contamination.
Strengths
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"Fasken has been highly responsive in our work together, from offering targeted expertise to helping to shape strategy and project-manage complex matters to ensure the work gets done well."
"The lawyers at Fasken have clearly demonstrated their ability to rise to the occasion."
"Fasken has been highly responsive in our work together, from offering targeted expertise to helping to shape strategy and project-manage complex matters to ensure the work gets done well."
"The lawyers at Fasken have clearly demonstrated their ability to rise to the occasion."
Notable Practitioners
Vancouver-based Geoffrey Cowper KC frequently represents major multinational organisations in commercial disputes at both provincial and federal levels. He is well versed in advising clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors.
"Geoffrey Cowper is a lawyer's lawyer, who is very pleasant to have on the field and very talented."
Tracey Cohen KC is respected for her handling of a broad array of corporate and commercial disputes across Canada, including class actions. She has experience in both arbitration and litigious settings.
"Tracey Cohen is able to hit the nail on the head about the course of the dispute and which way it was going to take, and anticipate the necessary steps."
Andrew Nathanson regularly represents clients in leading commercial and regulatory disputes, including advising on shareholder litigation and environment-related disputes.
"Andrew Nathanson is an excellent lawyer, I'm really impressed with him."
Brook Greenberg KC is based in Vancouver and is particularly noted for his skilled handling of regulatory and construction disputes for energy and mining companies.
Vancouver-based Gavin Cameron is known for his commercial litigation practice. He acts on commercial arbitrations and insurance disputes.
"Gavin Cameron is very experienced, energetic and ambitious."
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