WINNER: Regional Law Firm of the Year - Western Canada

Lawson Lundell LLP

Clifford G. Proudfoot, KC

Managing Partner

Cliff Proudfoot is the managing partner of Lawson Lundell. Cliff’s practice is focused on environmental and Indigenous litigation. His clients include companies in the forestry, manufacturing, mining, real estate development, and hydro-electric power generation industries. Cliff has represented his clients in environmental prosecutions, administrative actions, permit appeals, and environmental assessments, and has helped clients respond to a wide variety of environmental investigations and prosecutions.

Managing Partner

Clifford G. Proudfoot, KC

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Lawson Lundell is a leading, full-service business law firm based in Western and Northern Canada. Founded in Victoria, BC, in 1886, the firm now employs over 210 lawyers across offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Yellowknife, and Kelowna. The approach and philosophy that guides our legal work has been developed through decades of working with our clients and understanding their business and industry objectives. Responsiveness is critical to clients, so our first commitment is providing exceptional, pragmatic, and timely service. Our lawyers are consistently recognized as leaders in business law and other specialized practice areas by the most respected national and international legal and business publications. Our experience providing a variety of legal services to a diverse range of clients provincially, nationally, and internationally allows us to deliver quality client service, whatever their particular needs. The firm’s client base includes crown corporations, government agencies, banks and financial institutions, venture capital funds, large publicly traded companies, partnerships, smaller private companies, individual proprietorships, and individuals. We advise our clients in all the major industries active in Western Canada and the North, providing legal advice across a broad range of practice areas.

Karen L. MacMillan

Deputy Managing Partner and Chair of the Executive Committee

Karen MacMillan is Lawson Lundell’s deputy managing partner and chair of its Executive Committee, as well as co-leader of the firm’s Mining Group. Karen practises corporate/commercial, mining, and energy law with an emphasis on commercial arrangements in the mining sector including asset-level acquisitions and dispositions; negotiation of earn-in, option, and joint venture agreements; royalty agreements; procurement, construction, and engineering agreements; and other strategic ownership arrangements. She also regularly advises clients in the energy sector in connection with the ownership and development of major power generation projects, power purchase and sale agreements, renewable energy transactions, and a variety of related commercial/contracting matters.

Deputy Managing Partner and Chair of the Executive Committee

Karen L. MacMillan

Song Song

Director, East Team

Song Song is Director of EverBright Finance’s East Team. Prior to joining the company, he gained 12 years’ experience in banking, including in leadership, lending and operations risk control roles. His most recent position was at BNZ as Regional Manager in SME Acquisition. Song’s experience and knowledge of the banking industry give him a great understanding of clients’ financial goals and how to take them there. Song specialises in several areas, such as business and commercial lending, property finance, cash flow lending and budgeting, residential home lending, investment property lending and business planning. His proficiency in these areas enables him to provide tailored financial solutions to his clients.

Director, East Team

Song Song