Experience
Member, Board of Directors, Vice President & Treasurer, Ontario Federation of Trail Riders (2013 – 2017)
Member, Bord of Directors, Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists (2010-2013)
Corporate Legal Counsel, SkyLink Aviation Inc. (1998-2001)
- Corporate Organization
- Procedures and agreements for inernational aircraft leasing.
- Successful Tax Court litigation
Partner, Woolley, Dale & Dingwall, Barristers & Solicitors (1988-1992)
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- Acquisitions and Divestitures.
- Tax-motivated corporate transactions and structures.
- Software acquisition, development, licensing and financing.
Chair of Precedent Committee.
Partner, Beard Winter Gordon, Barristers & Solicitors (1983-1988)
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- Business law counsel to a range of business law and labour clients.
- Counsel or co-counsel on precedent-setting trade-mark (Tricom), anti-dumping (Steel Tube), and labour law (Kennedy Lodge) cases.
Associate, Campbell, Godfrey & Lewtas, Barristers & Solicitors (1980-1983)
- Associate lawyer in Corporate-Commercial practice team.
- Full service law firm.
- Participated in major M&A transactions.
- Generalist team-servicing of business law clients.
Publications
Riding The Roof of Africa. South AFrica and Lesotho: Adventure Touring Paradise, INSIDE MOTORCYCLE MAGAZINE
Eleven days and 4,000 kilometers of riding BMW dual-sport motorcycles from Cape Town to Johannesburg, through South Africa and the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Education
- Honours B.A., University of Toronto, 1967-1972
- M.A. Graduate seminar work, University of Toronto, 1973-1974
- LL.B., Osgood Hall Law School, 1974-1977
- LL.M., London School of Economics