Douglas H. Hopkins*

Shareholder

Doug Hopkins is the leader of the Corporate and Business practice group. He advises entrepreneurs, business owners and institutions on the incorporation of companies, trusts and societies, their organization, reorganization and governance, and on 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, and provides general counsel on commercial matters.

He has advised and/or acted as conflict of interest adjudicator on various government procurements including: the Sea-to-Sky Highway Project, the Coquihalla Highway Project, the Gateway Project, the Okanagan Lake Crossing Project, the Britannia Mine Water Treatment Project, Fort St. John's Hospital Project, the Whistler Wastewater Treatment Plant as well as various others.

Mr. Hopkins has extensive experience acting for clients on merger and acquisition transactions, such as share and assets purchases, amalgamations, and arrangements. This includes all due diligence matters, as well as the negotiating and drafting of the transaction and financing documents required to complete such transactions.

He also has experience representing banks and other financial lenders in preparing loan documentation and security, as well as in structuring commercial leases of equipment and other property, and also in advising on equity financings, by way of private placement and prospectus offerings, as well as on franchises, barter systems, vehicle dealership arrangements, the assignment of loan portfolios and related security, conditional sale, agency, distribution and factoring arrangements.

Mr. Hopkins has also advised educational institutions 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