Commercial Law
Real Estate Development
Construction
Environmental
Municipal Law
Expropriation
Public-Private Partnerships

Leasing and related real estate work for landlords and tenants.

Environmental and related real estate development.

Acquisitions, sales of businesses.

Construction law, construction bidding and tendering, and construction disputes.

Formulating requests for expressions of interest, request for proposals, tendering packages, partnering agreements for Municipal / local government / private sector development.

RFP’s and bidding and tendering for the sale and leasing of real estate.

Joint ventures.

Highways construction projects.

Formulating strategy for buyout of shareholders, financing, eliciting offers, tax planning, and sale of properties / shares.

Land development and subdivision, environmental, and local government and regulatory approvals.

Expropriation.

Assisting landowners and developers with respect to land assembly, subdivision and servicing, as well as procuring municipal and regulatory approvals, re-zoning, easements and rights-of-way.

Interpretation of bylaws and municipal requirements and related legislation.

A broad range of other commercial law niche areas, including liquor licensing (lawyer for many pubs and licensee retail stores) and property transfer tax.

Roy obtained his law degree from the University of Manitoba in 1980, articled with Clark Wilson LLP and was called to the BC Bar in 1981. He became a partner with Clark Wilson LLP in 1987.

Roy identifies very closely with his clients. He is driven to get results, and to be practical and effective.

Roy serves on the Canadian Bar Association Practice Advisory Panels for "General Real Estate", "Construction", "Environmental", "Expropriation" and "Bidding and Tendering". He was the founding Chair of the Banking Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch.

Roy regularly puts on seminars and publishes articles relating to his practice areas (some of which are available at www.cwilson.com). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Commerce; publications by Continuing Legal Education of BC; The Legal Edge (for construction and procurement managers); Legal Alert (for corporate executives); The Lawyers Weekly (a national law publication) and in Clark Wilson LLP newsletters. Roy has presented many seminars on real estate, bidding and tendering and construction.