News
01 February 2012
It is with great pleasure that the Partners of Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP announce that Peter Roth, Rebecca Morse, Mike Wagner, and Tim Dickson have been appointed to the Partnership effective February 1, 2012.
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10 January 2012
VANCOUVER - Farris Partners Trevor Scott, Michael Korbin, and Mark Chu have authored “Doing Business in British Columbia” which is featured in the 2012 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
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10 August 2011
Partner Alison Narod is interviewed in the August 2 - 8 issue of Business in Vancouver on a recent BC Supreme Court decision on mandatory retirement.
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05 October 2010
Hector MacKay-Dunn, who has been actively advocating for the extension of the flow-through shares to the biotech industry for over a decade, commented on the industry’s recent government lobbying for the model in the September 28 – October 4 issue of Business in Vancouver.
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07 September 2010
VANCOUVER - Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP is pleased to welcome Nicholas Hooge back to the firm as an Associate. Nicholas joins the firm’s Litigation practice group.
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03 August 2010
VANCOUVER - Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP is pleased to welcome Mohammad Ali Manki back to the firm as an Associate. Mohammad joins the firm’s Corporate Commercial, Securities & Corporate Finance, and Banking practice groups.
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21 July 2010
Peter Roth has been elected Chair of the Securities Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia Branch).
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16 July 2010
Trevor Scott has been elected to the Executive of the National Business Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. The National Business Law Section provides leadership across Canada on laws affecting business, commerce, trade and banking.
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15 July 2010
Partner and litigator Ludmila Herbst presented an overview of BC property tax exemptions at a seminar of the BC Branch of the Canadian Property Tax Association, held on June 29, 2010. Among the topics that Ms. Herbst addressed were the distinction between permissive and mandatory exemptions, and the identification of statutory regimes applicable to different areas of the province.
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31 May 2010
Farris litigator Rebecca Morse and paralegal Jasbir Bains presented at the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia’s conference, “New Civil Rules for Legal Support Staff”, held on May 7, 2010.
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31 May 2010
Don Brenner Q.C, Al Hudec and David Gruber presented a session on Distressed M&A as part of a program on Advanced Merger and Acquisition Transactions sponsored by the BC Continuing Legal Education Society on June 3, 2010.
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28 May 2010
Congratulations to Tim Dickson, Eric Goodman, David Gruber, Stephanie Gutierrez, Kwang Lim, Brad Newby, Eli Walker, and Jason Yamashita who yesterday won the One-to-One Spelling Bee at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
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28 May 2010
Vancouver – May 17, 2010. Farris partner Brad Newby and associate Thierry Keable assisted their client, private equity firm Maxam Opportunities Fund LP, in the recent USD $8.5m secondary and treasury financing of Vivonet Incorporated, a leader in secure web-based point-of-sale (“POS”) systems for the North American restaurant industry.
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21 May 2010
VICTORIA - On May 13th Farris and industry celebrated the achievements of the technology companies that are responsible for making Greater Victoria the fastest growing technology region in British Columbia at the VIATeC Technology Awards Ceremony, in Victoria.
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23 April 2010
VANCOUVER - Trevor Scott has been appointed to the BC Securities Commission: Securities Law Advisory Committee. The committee of up to 14 leading lawyers advises the British Columbia Securities Commission on legal and policy issues relating to the securities regulation (including laws for companies that are listed on stock exchanges).
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