Corporate and Commercial Law, Commercial Real Estate, Higher Learning, Commercial Lending, Public-Private Partnerships, and Energy & Natural Resources Law.

Counsel on various public-private partnership transactions, including on behalf of Partnerships BC, government institutions and proponents.

Counsel to the University College 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, corporate bonds, convertible loans and gold loans.

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 Co-Chair of Clark Wilson LLP’s Higher Learning Practice Group and the Public-Private Partnerships Practice Group.

He represents a broad range of 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.

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

Lecturer and writer in programs at the UBC Law School, Continuing Legal Education Society, and Canadian Institute