Overview

Georg Reuter is a partner and the co-leader of the Employment and Human Rights Group. He is also a member of the Advanced Education and Research Practice Group, and has over 30 years of experience in the areas of employment and human rights law, as well as intellectual property and licensing law, with a particular focus on the transfers of new technologies from academic institutions to business.

Georg has worked closely with many of BC’s advanced education and research institutions to assist them in commercialization of their technologies, including The University of British Columbia (UBC), the Centre for Drug Research and Development, the Vancouver Prostate Centre, and the BC Cancer Agency.

On the employment side of his practice, Georg assists both employers and employees in negotiating and drafting employment related agreements and policies, and in advising on strategies for hiring (and where necessary) terminating employees.

Georg has advised UBC on the licence and research collaboration agreements that underpin the more than a hundred life science spin-off companies started at UBC. In particular, Georg focuses on licensing and technology transfer transactions, with extensive experience in dealing with transfers between institutions (e.g., universities, hospitals, research facilities) and businesses in the life science and software industries.

Georg was a key contributor to UBC’s licences with AbCellera, Roche Pharmaceuticals, NanoVation Therapeutics and many others.

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law
• Intellectual Property
• Civil Litigation
• Landlord & Tenant
• Information Technology Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1990 (BC)