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Donald G. Douglas

Don is the firm’s CEO and Managing Partner. His practice covers a wide range of commercial matters. He has extensive experience in corporate and commercial transactions, commercial lending, real estate development and financing, commercial litigation including shareholder disputes, and insolvency and restructuring. At present, his preferred role is to provide counsel to business owners and managers and their advisors and to act as a negotiator in advancing clients’ interests in all manner of commercial transactions and in the resolution of differences relating to commercial matters. In appropriate circumstances, Don believes in the value of an independent and impartial mediator providing assistance to the parties in their negotiations by seeking to identify and promote common interests through a cost-effective, expedient, creative and confidential process.

Don has been listed in the Lexpert® Legal Expert Directory and the National Post/Best Lawyers Best Lawyers in Canada directory.

Education

University of Manitoba, B.Sc., 1969 and LL.B., 1974

Call to the Bar

Manitoba, 1975

Representative Cases/Transactions

Has appeared in Court of Queen’s Bench and Court of Appeal of Manitoba, Superior Court of Justice and Court of Appeal of Ontario and Supreme Court of Canada.

Served as a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba, Sessional Lecturer at the Faculty of Law (Manitoba), Board Member of Manitoba Theatre for Young People and Chair of the Board of Governors of St. John’s-Ravenscourt School.
 

Achievements

Recognized by the Lexpert Directory as a Leading Lawyer in insolvency (Non-litigation); Insolvency (litigation); Litigation - Corporate Commercial.

Selected for inclusion in the 2010 and 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada for Insolvency and Financial Restructuring.

Community Involvement and Other Affiliations

Participated as a presenter in seminars and lectures given by the Law Society of Manitoba and acted as co-chair with Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey J. Oliphant for the Isaac Pitblado Lectures on Business Law and Litigation. Don is a member of the Law Society of Manitoba and Canadian Bar Association.