Managing and understanding risk.
With running any business, there is risk. Darrell’s clients come to him looking for help to manage and understand the risks they face, while completing transactions and procurements in a professional manner and on a timely and cost-effective basis.
Representative matters
Darrell has both a diversified practice and client base. His clients include governments, financial institutions, chartered banks and energy providers. Some examples of the things he has done for these clients include:
- Acting for major financial institutions in various capacities, including financing, security enforcement and corporate restructuring matters.
- Acting as counsel to both government and industry in connection with public-private partnership and industrial projects.
- Acting for Canadian chartered banks and other lenders in the negotiation, preparation and enforcement of credit documentation and in all types of insolvency proceedings.
- Negotiating and preparing major business and industrial agreements.
- Establishing and financing public-private partnership and development arrangements.
Areas of practice:
- Asset Based Lending
- Banking
- Corporate/Commercial
- Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Marine
- Government/Regulated Industries
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Project Finance
BAR ADMISSION(S)
New Brunswick, 1986
LAW SOCIETY(IES)
Law Society of New Brunswick
EDUCATION
University of New Brunswick, LL.B., 1985
University of New Brunswick, B.B.A., 1983
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Business Development Committee, Stewart McKelvey
- Past member, Marketing Committee, Stewart McKelvey
- Past chair, New Brunswick Corporate Commercial Practice Group, Stewart McKelvey
- Past chair, Associates/Students Committee, Stewart McKevley New Brunswick
LANGUAGE(S)
English
LEXPERT RATINGS
Banking (Including Financial Institutions Regulatory Law)
Corporate / Commercial
Mergers and Acquisitions
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS
BV
EXTERNAL RATINGS
Best Lawyers 2011 (Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Project Finance Law)
Best Lawyers 2006, 2008-2011 (Insolvency and Financial Restructuring)