Overview

Under the agreement of this take-private transaction worth C$9 billion, Boralex will continue to operate as an independent private company following closing.

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Vincent Kam-Sun Yip* is a partner in the Business Law Group and the national Intellectual Property Group. Based in Vancouver, he leads the firm’s Western Canadian intellectual property practice and has a national practice, working closely with clients of the Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal offices.

Vincent’s practice focuses on the global acquisition, commercialization, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications, managing trademark oppositions, rendering patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and infringement opinions, and resolving intellectual property rights disputes. Vincent provides clients with strategic and practical advice in the management of global patent, trademark, and industrial design portfolios.

Practice Areas

• Intellectual Property

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2008 (BC)