Public-Private Partnerships, First Nations, Construction, Energy & Natural Resources, Commercial Real Estate.

James has extensive experience working on large-scale, complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and public interest. Recent examples of James’ work include:

• Advised the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office in Vancouver for the negotiation of the Tsawwassen First Nation Treaty, including land transfer, leasing and assignment issues and due diligence.

• Worked with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in Edmonton relating to commercial development on reserve lands and to a regional consultation and benefits agreement among First Nations, industry, Alberta and Canada concerning resource development.

• Advising on public-private partnership arrangements, including current hospital projects, highway infrastructure and a sports and medical complex, in respect of project and concession agreements, construction and operating agreements, and related documents.

James also has a wide-range of corporate and commercial law experience. He has acted for clients in all aspects of sales and purchases of businesses, including restaurants, retail stores, hotels, franchises, outfitting and other service-related businesses, and has participated as part of a multi-lawyer team in a restructuring and share purchase of an aviation company, asset sales of hotels, and the purchase of a provincial government agency.

James Bryce is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP’s Public-Private Partnerships, Construction, Commercial Real Estate, Energy & Natural Resources and Higher Learning Practice Groups.

James obtained a Bachelor of Science degree (Honours) from the University of British Columbia in Soil Science and a Masters of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan in Soil Science. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Saskatchewan in 2000.

As a staff lawyer with the Department of Justice, James served as counsel to the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office in Vancouver and as counsel to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in Edmonton. He has also worked as an associate lawyer in Saskatoon practicing within a corporate and commercial practice group and as a trade-mark agent.

James also worked for the Centre for Studies in Agriculture, Law and Environment in Saskatchewan conducting legal research on climate change, soil carbon sequestration and Kyoto Protocol. He has written extensively in this area including:

J. Bryce, “Controlling the Temperature: Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol” (1999) 62(2) Sask. L. Rev. 379;

and several papers in:

J.T. Bryce, D. Buckingham and M. Boehm, The Kyoto Protocol: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Agricultural Sector (Saskatoon: CSALE Working Paper Publication Series No.1, Vol.1, 1999); and

J.C. Kowalski, ed., Climate Change Handbook in Agriculture (Saskatoon: CSALE and Chair in Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, 2000).

James was called to the (Saskatchewan) Bar in 2001.

Member, Law Society of British Columbia (2006)

Member, Law Society of Alberta