Precise analysis.
Resolving complex legal issues while faced with tight internal budgets and timelines is a challenge facing Fred’s clients. With extensive experience in commercial law, litigation and administrative law, Fred achieves results by developing a solution to the problem and assigning the appropriate lawyers and resources to achieve the outcome.
Representative matters
Working with a diverse group of clients which include government and quasi-government bodies, professional associations, boards of directors, construction firms, vendors and purchasers of businesses, some of the examples of the services Fred has performed for his clients include:
- Acting as legal counsel to a high profile advisory board appointed to give strategic advice to the lenders and creditors of a large industrial/construction venture.
- Drafting and guiding private acts through the legislative process for 10 professional associations.
- Acting as counsel to receivers and trustees on significant insolvency cases.
- Serving as litigation defence counsel in a $48 million legal action involving the largest private construction project in the province.
Areas of practice:
- Litigation
- Securities/Corporate Finance
- Technology and Intellectual
- Property
- Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
- Banking
- Property Development (Real Estate; Land Use Planning/Municipal)
- Construction
- Labour & Employment
- Class Actions
BAR ADMISSION(S)
New Brunswick, 1978
LAW SOCIETY(IES)
Law Society of New Brunswick
EDUCATION
Harvard University, LL.M., 1979
University of New Brunswick, LL.B., 1978
University of New Brunswick, B.B.A., 1972
QUEEN'S COUNSEL
2006
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Business Development Committee, Stewart McKelvey, 2008-2009
- Member, Order of Canada
- Trade-mark agent, 2002
- Chair, Plan International Inc., 1993-2002
LANGUAGE(S)
English
LEXPERT RATINGS
Banking (Including Financial Institutions Regulatory Law)
Computer and I.T. Law
Intellectual Property Law
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS
BV
EXTERNAL RATINGS
- Best Lawyers: Banking and Finance, 2012