High quality advice with a results-oriented focus.
As a transaction and business-oriented lawyer with more than 25 years of practical legal experience, Keith has advised and acted for large and small businesses as well as numerous banks and others involved in the provision of financial products and services. He has been involved with many acquisitions and sales of businesses as a going concern and also with the financings of such transactions.
Representative matters
Keith acts for several financial institutions as well as clients involved in the design and manufacture of such things as computer software, signs, aquaculture and fish processing systems, and climate control systems for agricultural warehouses. He also acts for a major property developer and manager in the Charlottetown area.
Areas of practice
- Securities/Corporate Finance
- Corporate/Commercial
- Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
- Financial Services
- Asset Securitization
- Mergers & Acquisitions
BAR ADMISSION(S)
Prince Edward Island, 1987
Ontario, 1985
LAW SOCIETY(IES)
Law Society of Prince Edward Island
EDUCATION
Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B., 1983
Carleton University, M.A., 1982
Dalhousie University, B.A. (honours), 1979
QUEEN'S COUNSEL
2005
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Council member, Federation of Law Societies of Canada, 2006-present
- President, Law Society of Prince Edward Island, 2007-2008
- Chairman, Special Olympics 2004, Prince Edward Island Winter Games, 2002-2004
- President, Progressive Conservative Association of Prince Edward Island, 1991-1994
- Director, Canadian Bar Insurance Association, 1993-2001
- President, Prince Edward Island Branch, Canadian Bar Association, 2001-2003
LANGUAGE(S)
English
LEXPERT RATINGS
Banking (Including Financial Institutions Regulatory Law)
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS
CV
EXTERNAL RATINGS
- Best Lawyers' 2012 Charlottetown Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year
- Best Lawyers: Banking and Finance, 2009 - 2012
- Best Lawyers: Corporate Law, 2012