Overview

Doug’s practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, with a particular emphasis on public procurement, ethics, and conflict of interest matters. He advises entrepreneurs, business owners, and a wide range of governmental agencies and public institutions.
Doug acts as both an adjudicator and advisor to governmental agencies and public institutions on ethical and conflict of interest matters arising in public procurement processes. Since 2003, he has advised or served as project conflict of interest adjudicator for provincial governments, local governments, and Crown corporations on major infrastructure and procurement projects.
Representative projects include the Pattullo Bridge Replacement, the Millennium Line Broadway Extension, the Evergreen Line Rapid Transit Project, the Port Mann Bridge Replacement, the Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant, hospital developments including the Children’s and Women’s Hospital Project, the Okanagan Correctional Centre, BC Hydro’s Site C Clean Energy Project and Smart Meter Program, and numerous highway maintenance and transportation infrastructure procurements.
Doug also regularly acts as a conduct review advisor to boards of directors on ethical and conflict of interest matters.
Doug has been recognized by his peers and listed in Best Lawyers in Canada since 2013 for Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Practice, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Corporate Law
• Commercial Law
• Privacy Law
• Corporate & Commercial Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1984 (BC)