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Chair, Higher Learning Group Co-Chair, Public-Private Partnerships Group |
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Area of Practice Infrastructure Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships, Corporate and Commercial Law, Commercial Real Estate, Higher Learning, Commercial Lending, and Energy & Natural Resources Law. Representative Work Counsel to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure with respect to the Evergreen Line Rapid Transit Project. Counsel on various public private partnership and infrastructure transactions, including on behalf of Partnership BC and government ministries and agencies, municipalities as well as private sector partners. Counsel to the University of the Fraser Valley in connection with its acquisition and ongoing work in the Canada Education Park, Chilliwack. Counsel to the joint venture of UBC, SFU, BCIT and Emily Carr in connection with the structuring of the joint venture and acquisition of a large site on the outskirts of downtown Vancouver. Advising institutions of higher learning on acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and financing. Acquisitions and dispositions of corporations and partnerships and their assets. Acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate, including office towers, shopping centres, hotels, apartment buildings and resort properties. Acting for landlords and tenants on office leases, shopping centre leases, ground leases, leases of First Nations land and other interests in real estate. Advising on organizational and governance matters, particularly in relation to institutions of higher learning and their affiliates. Advising on loan structuring and security interests in various sectors, including commercial real estate, golf courses, resource projects, hotels, forestry, First Nations lands. Financing of commercial interests, including corporate loans, mortgage loans, asset backed loans, corporate bonds, convertible loans and gold loans. Profile Brock Johnston joined Clark Wilson LLP as a partner in June of 1996 after many years of practice with a major Toronto firm. He is a member of the firm's Business Law Group as well as the Higher Learning, Commercial Real Estate, Construction Law and Commercial Lending Practice Groups. Brock is Chair of the Higher Learning Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships Practice Group. He represents a broad range of institutional and corporate clients in British Columbia and lenders and borrowers in domestic and international loan transactions. Brock obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Honours English) from York University in Toronto (Glendon College) and his Juris Doctor in 1981 from the University of Toronto. He speaks and reads French. Memberships & Associations Member, Law Society of British Columbia (1990) Former Member, Law Society of Upper Canada (1983 – 2004) Member, Canadian Bar Association Member, Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships Member, Canadian Association of University Solicitors Member, Urban Development Institute Association des juristes d'expression française de la Colombie–Britannique Member, Gerson Lehrman Educators Program Lecturer and writer in programs at the UBC Law School, Continuing Legal Education Society, and Canadian Institute |