General Corporate / Commercial Law, Higher Learning and Commercial Real Estate.

• Assisted with the acquisition and sale of various businesses.
• Reviewing and drafting of a wide variety of commercial agreements.
• Reviewing and drafting of commercial leases and licenses and renewals.
• Assisted with share and asset purchase/sale transactions for both public and private companies.

Shauna Towriss is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP’s Business Law Department.

Shauna received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Philosophy from Simon Fraser University in 2001 and following graduation from SFU participated in the six-month BC Legislative Internship Programme.

She obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia. While studying law at UBC, Shauna received the Jennifer Forest Cadham Memorial Award and the Panvini Scholarship in Law. In her final year of law school, Shauna won first prize in the Insolvency Institute of Canada’s Law Student Writing Awards Program.

From 2005-2006, Shauna was employed as a Judicial Law Clerk at the BC Court of Appeal, assisting judges with legal research both before and after a case was heard. In February 2006 Shauna was awarded the First Annual Lloyd Houlden Research Fellowship from the Canadian Insolvency Foundation and was honoured to be presented the fellowship by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Madam Justice Beverly McLachlin.

Shauna was employed with Clark Wilson LLP as a summer articled student in 2004 and she returned to Clark Wilson LLP for her full articles in July 2006. Shauna was called to the Bar of British Columbia in November 2006.

Author, "Greater U.S. investment expected in B.C. through unlimited liability companies", The Lawyers Weekly [August 10, 2007]

Author, "The CCAA, Stelco and Shareholder Equity", Rebuilding Success Magazine [Fall 2007, Vol 6, Issue 2, Page 30]

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]