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Area of Practice

Public-Private Partnerships, First Nations, Construction, Commercial Real Estate.

Representative Work

James has extensive experience working on large-scale, complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, including public sector entities and First Nations. Recent examples of James' work include:

• Advising the Prince Rupert Port Authority on the negotiation of an impact benefits agreement with First Nations relating to Port expansion, including consultation issues, economic benefits, relationship building and negotiations.

• 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.

• Advising the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office in Vancouver for the negotiation of the Tsawwassen First Nation Treaty, including land matters.

• Advising 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.

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 the restructuring and share purchase of an aviation company, asset sales of hotels and the purchase of large-scale agricultural operations.

Profile

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 the Kyoto Protocol. His writing in this area includes:

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.

Memberships & Associations

Member, Law Society of British Columbia (2006)

Member, Law Society of Alberta (non-practicing)

Member, Canadian Bar Association (Commercial Real Estate and Aboriginal Law Sub-Sections)