Sean represents and advises clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular focus on highly regulated industries and sectors.
He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, disposition and acquisition of businesses on behalf of Canadian, U.S. and international companies, cross-border transactions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and partnership agreements in a wide variety of industries.
His practice spans a variety of sectors, including infrastructure and energy projects, and power and electricity.
He advises financial institutions (including credit unions, trust companies and insurance companies) on regulatory and other corporate/commercial matters.
Sean also has extensive experience advising clients in the education and not-for-profit sectors.
From 2000 to 2003, Sean was foreign counsel with the law firm of Nishimura & Partners (now Nishimura & Asahi) in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice focused on cross-border commercial transactions.
Within BLG, Sean is the Regional Manager of our Corporate Commercial and Securities and Capital Markets Groups.
Sean provides legal services through a Law Corporation.
Experience
- Vendors in the sale of a North American equipment distribution business.
- Vendors in the sale of a Western Canadian foundry business.
- Investor dealers in the acquisition and sale of Canadian brokerage businesses.
- An engineering/construction multinational in its acquisition of a Canadian engineering company.
- A financial institution in its acquisition of a Canadian commercial leasing business.
- A Chinese company in its disposition of a technology business.
- Vendors in the sale of one of British Columbia's largest cattle ranches.
- A purchaser in its acquisition of a Canadian retail business.
- UMA Engineering in respect of its merger and court-approved cross-border acquisition transaction and corporate arrangement with AECOM.
- Major Korean companies in respect of mining ventures in Canada, the United States and Africa.
- Negotiating and managing multiple power purchase agreements for wind, biomass, waste heat, run-of-river, reservoir and natural gas projects.
- B.C. Hydro in the development and implementation of renewable energy calls for power in B.C., including the 2008 Bioenergy Phase I Call for Power, the 2008 Clean Energy Call for Power, and the 2010 Bioenergy Phase II Call for Power.
- Design-builders in respect of numerous public-private partnership projects across Canada, including the Champlain Bridge, Evergreen Line, Alberta Schools Projects (ASAP 2 and 3), Surrey Outpatient Clinic, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Fort St. John Hospital, and New Brunswick Schools Project.
- Owners in the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors on the legal aspects of design and construction, including tendering and bidding documentation; engineer, procure and construction management (EPCM) agreements; and engineer, procure and construct (EPC) agreements.
- B.C. Hydro in respect its $1.5 billion outsourcing and partnership transaction with Accenture and related ongoing matters.
- Roche in its $1.4 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
- Weyerhaeuser Company Limited in the disposition of its coastal B.C. division to Brascan Corporation for $1.2 billion, and in the disposition of its Canadian building materials distribution business to a U.S. private equity firm.
- School boards, independent schools and post-secondary institutions on education law and corporate/commercial issues.
- Partnership and joint venture arrangements involving professional organizations in various sectors, including the construction/ engineering, architecture and computer service industries.
- Vendors in the sale of a North American equipment distribution business.
- Vendors in the sale of a Western Canadian foundry business.
- Investor dealers in the acquisition and sale of Canadian brokerage businesses.
- An engineering/construction multinational in its acquisition of a Canadian engineering company.
- A financial institution in its acquisition of a Canadian commercial leasing business.
- A Chinese company in its disposition of a technology business.
- Vendors in the sale of one of British Columbia's largest cattle ranches.
- A purchaser in its acquisition of a Canadian retail business.
- UMA Engineering in respect of its merger and court-approved cross-border acquisition transaction and corporate arrangement with AECOM.
- Major Korean companies in respect of mining ventures in Canada, the United States and Africa.
- Negotiating and managing multiple power purchase agreements for wind, biomass, waste heat, run-of-river, reservoir and natural gas projects.
- B.C. Hydro in the development and implementation of renewable energy calls for power in B.C., including the 2008 Bioenergy Phase I Call for Power, the 2008 Clean Energy Call for Power, and the 2010 Bioenergy Phase II Call for Power.
- Design-builders in respect of numerous public-private partnership projects across Canada, including the Champlain Bridge, Evergreen Line, Alberta Schools Projects (ASAP 2 and 3), Surrey Outpatient Clinic, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Fort St. John Hospital, and New Brunswick Schools Project.
- Owners in the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors on the legal aspects of design and construction, including tendering and bidding documentation; engineer, procure and construction management (EPCM) agreements; and engineer, procure and construct (EPC) agreements.
- B.C. Hydro in respect its $1.5 billion outsourcing and partnership transaction with Accenture and related ongoing matters.
- Roche in its $1.4 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
- Weyerhaeuser Company Limited in the disposition of its coastal B.C. division to Brascan Corporation for $1.2 billion, and in the disposition of its Canadian building materials distribution business to a U.S. private equity firm.
- School boards, independent schools and post-secondary institutions on education law and corporate/commercial issues.
- Partnership and joint venture arrangements involving professional organizations in various sectors, including the construction/ engineering, architecture and computer service industries.
