Douglas H. Hopkins*

Shareholder

Doug Hopkins is the leader of the Corporate and Business practice group. He advises entrepreneurs, business owners and institutions regarding Corporate and Commercial matters.

Doug’s Corporate practice focuses on advising clients on the incorporation of companies, trusts and societies, their organization, reorganization and governance, regulatory compliance, amalgamation, arrangements, continuations, alterations of share capital, dissolutions and wind-ups, liquidations, revivals, restorations, shareholder agreements, meetings and disputes and directors' and shareholders' rights and liabilities. He also advises clients on partnerships, limited partnerships and joint ventures.

Doug’s Commercial practice is focused on business mergers and acquisitions, principally, share and asset purchases. This includes the negotiating and drafting of the transaction documents, all financing arrangements and due diligence. Doug also advises on both Bank and equity financings, barter systems, vehicle dealership arrangements, assignments of loan portfolios and related security, conditional sales, agencies, distribution and factoring arrangements.

Doug serves as a Conflict of Interest Adjudicator on several provincial government procurements. Representative projects include the Evergreen Line Rapid Transit Project, the Children and Women’s Hospital Project, and the BC Hydro Smart Meter Project.

Doug has also advised a major provincial University on various matters, including allegations of academic misconduct.

Professional and Other Activities

Principal Editor, O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Forms – Division II Corporations for British Columbia
Contributor, Practice Checklists Manual, Continuing Legal Education
Past Chair, Board of Variance, District of North Vancouver
Counsel, Better Business Bureau of Mainland British Columbia
Past Director, Experience Canada

Recent Transactions

* Law Corporation