Lawyer Profile

Sean A. Muggah

Vancouver, British Columbia

Sean A. Muggah

Overview

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.

Practice Areas

  • Administrative Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Banking/Finance
  • Natural Resources & Energy
  • Corporate & Commercial Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1998 (BC)

Professional Details

Education

LLB/BCL, McGill University, 1997 (included one-year exchange at the National University of Singapore)
BA, University of Toronto, 1992