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800 - 885 West Georgia Street
Vancouver B.C. V6C 3H1
Main Tel. (604) 687-5700
Fax (604) 687-6314

www.cwilson.com

Area of Practice

Insolvency & Restructuring, General Corporate & Commercial and Private Company Transactions.

Representative Work

• Assisting with share and asset purchase/sale transactions for both public and private companies.

• Assisting with preparing and implementing corporate structuring and restructuring plans.

• Acting with respect to various corporate reorganization transactions, including amalgamations, continuations, and dissolutions.

• Reviewing and drafting a wide variety of corporate and commercial agreements.

Profile

Shauna Towriss is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP's Insolvency & Restructuring, Corporate & Commercial and Private Company Transaction Practice Groups.

Shauna received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Philosophy 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, 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 with the fellowship by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Shauna was employed with Clark Wilson as a summer articled student in 2004 and she 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, Association of Women in Finance

Publications

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]

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]