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Area of Practice Commercial Real Estate, General Corporate & Commercial, Private Company Transactions and Energy & Natural Resources. Representative Work Shauna's practice involves assisting clients and providing advice on an ongoing basis in the areas of real estate acquisitions, dispositions and financing, commercial real estate development and assisting various private entities to raise equity through offering memoranda in limited partnership and trust structures for a variety of investment and development projects. Profile Shauna Towriss is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP's Commercial Real Estate, Corporate & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Private Company Transactions and Energy & Natural Resources Practice Groups. Shauna received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Simon Fraser University in 2001 and obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia in 2005. From 2005-2006, Shauna was employed as a Judicial Law Clerk at the BC Court of Appeal. She was employed with Clark Wilson as a summer articled student in 2004 and returned to Clark Wilson for her full articles in July 2006. Shauna was called to the Bar of British Columbia in November 2006. Memberships & Associations Member, Law Society of British Columbia (2006) Member, Canadian Bar Association Member, Insolvency Discussion Group Volunteer, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Director and Secretary, Tyee Club of British Columbia President and Director, Hooplaw Charitable Foundation Member, Urban Development Institute Member, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Vancouver Chapter Publications Contributor to Megawatt (www.bcenergyblog.com), a British Columbia renewable energy law blog. Author, "Slowing Economy and Tighter Lending Standards Presents Opportunities and Challenges: Buying and Selling Financially Distressed Businesses", Business Matters [September 2008] Author, "The CCAA, Stelco and Shareholder Equity", Rebuilding Success Magazine [Fall 2007, Vol 6, Issue 2, Page 30] Author, "Greater U.S. investment expected in B.C. through unlimited liability companies", The Lawyers Weekly [August 10, 2007] Co-author, "Tougher Legislation Needed to Fight Spam", The Lawyers Weekly [April 13, 2007] Author, "Gambling From the Bottom Rung of the Priority Ladder: CCAA Restructuring, Shareholder Equity and the Stelco Case" Canadian Association of Insolvency & Recruiting Professionals [January 17, 2006] Author, "Through the Lens of Insolvency: Shareholder Equity in CCAA Restructurings" (2005) Annual Review of Insolvency Law 527 [Thomson Carswell] Co-author, Protected Areas in British Columbia, Clark Wilson LLP [September 15, 2004] |
