Direct Tel. (604) 891-7749
Email skt@cwilson.com

800 - 885 West Georgia Street
Vancouver B.C. V6C 3H1
Main Tel. (604) 687-5700
Fax (604) 687-6314

www.cwilson.com

Area of Practice

Commercial Real Estate, General Corporate & Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions and Energy & Natural Resources.

Representative Work

• Assisting with the acquisition and sale of various commercial real estate properties.

• Reviewing and drafting a wide variety of corporate and commercial agreements.

• Assisting with share and asset purchase/sale transactions for both public and private companies.

• Assisting various private entities to raise equity through Offering Memoranda in limited partnership structures for a variety of investment and development projects.

Profile

Shauna Towriss is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP's Commercial Real Estate, Corporate & Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions and Energy & Natural Resources Practice Groups.

Shauna received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Philosophy from Simon Fraser University in 2001 and following graduation from SFU participated in the six-month BC Legislative Internship Programme.

She obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia. While studying law at UBC, Shauna received the Jennifer Forest Cadham Memorial Award and the Panvini Scholarship in Law. In her final year of law school, Shauna won first prize in the Insolvency Institute of Canada's Law Student Writing Awards Program.

From 2005-2006, Shauna was employed as a Judicial Law Clerk at the BC Court of Appeal, assisting judges with legal research both before and after a case was heard. In February 2006 Shauna was awarded the First Annual Lloyd Houlden Research Fellowship from the Canadian Insolvency Foundation and was honoured to be presented the fellowship by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Madam Justice Beverly McLachlin.

Shauna was employed with Clark Wilson as a summer articled student in 2004 and she returned to Clark Wilson for her full articles in July 2006. Shauna was called to the Bar of British Columbia in November 2006.

Memberships & Associations

Member, Law Society of British Columbia (2006)

Member, Canadian Bar Association

Member, Insolvency Discussion Group

Volunteer, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Director and Secretary, Tyee Club of British Columbia

President and Director, Hooplaw Charitable Foundation

Member, Association of Women in Finance

Member, Urban Development Institute

Member, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Vancouver Chapter

Publications

Regular contributor to Megawatt (www.bcenergyblog.com), a British Columbia renewable energy law blog.

Author, "Slowing Economy and Tighter Lending Standards Presents Opportunities and Challenges: Buying and Selling Financially Distressed Businesses", Business Matters [September 2008]

Author, "The CCAA, Stelco and Shareholder Equity", Rebuilding Success Magazine [Fall 2007, Vol 6, Issue 2, Page 30]

Author, "Greater U.S. investment expected in B.C. through unlimited liability companies", The Lawyers Weekly [August 10, 2007]

Co-author, "Tougher Legislation Needed to Fight Spam", The Lawyers Weekly [April 13, 2007]

Author, "Gambling From the Bottom Rung of the Priority Ladder: CCAA Restructuring, Shareholder Equity and the Stelco Case" Canadian Association of Insolvency & Recruiting Professionals [January 17, 2006]

Author, "Through the Lens of Insolvency: Shareholder Equity in CCAA Restructurings" (2005) Annual Review of Insolvency Law 527 [Thomson Carswell]

Co-author, Protected Areas in British Columbia, Clark Wilson LLP [September 15, 2004]