(PRINCIPAL AND LAW CORPORATION)

ELAINE CHEUNG

(ASSOCIATE LAWYER)

Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese

Elaine was raised in Hong Kong and received both Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degrees from the University of Connecticut. She is admitted to the British Columbia and the New York State bars. She is fluent in spoken and written Chinese.

Elaine’s practice includes corporate, commercial and real estate law. She has advised clients on a variety of matters, including share and asset acquisitions and dispositions including due diligence matters, private placements, cross-broader transactions, transfer pricing, and general corporate and commercial matters. Elaine has represented clients in the mining, private equity, manufacturing, and communications sectors. Prior to joining Remedios & Company, Elaine gained experience working for a multi-national corporation and public accounting firm in taxation matters, and a business law firm in Vancouver.

GERARD M GRAND

(CONSULTANT IN TAX LAW)

Gerard received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brock University in 1978 and his Law degree from Osgood Hall Law School in 1981. He articled in Toronto for Robins & Partners and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1983 and appointed as a Professor in the Department of Finance & Accounting at Brock University. He obtained an M.B.A. in Finance in 1987 from the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University. In 1990, Gerard received an LL.M from Queen's University in Taxation. Gerard is experienced in domestic and international taxation, corporate and commercial law, real estate and business acquisitions and estates and trusts. He has extensive experience with trading companies from Hong Kong, manufacturers in the special economic zones of Mainland China, major North America retailers, and consumer products companies.

LEWIS J. GRENIER

(ASSOCIATE LAWYER)

Lewis has practised as a Solicitor in England for over ten years, specialising in Civil and Commercial Litigation, before returning to Canada in 1999. Lewis was born in Toronto but moved to England at an early age, where he completed his schooling. In 1985 Lewis graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a law degree. After attending Guildford College of Law, he was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 1988.

Lewis was called to the bar in British Columbia in August 2000. He has over fifteen years experience in a wide variety of fields of Civil and Commercial Litigation, including professional negligence, personal injury, employment, breach of contract, arbitration, property disputes and collections. Lewis is a member of the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia and has served as a team co-ordinator with the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. legal advice clinic in Vancouver.

WINSTON KAM

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL)

Languages: Cantonese

Winston is a corporate and commercial lawyer and has been involved in litigation cases, including civil, criminal, and commercial litigation, as well as administrative matters. In addition, Winston has been extensively involved in structuring business transactions and corporate finance, with both public and private companies. Winston is an integral part of the firm’s China practice group.

Winston graduated with both a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of British Columbia, where he also received the Millennium Scholarship, membership with the Golden Key International Honour Society upon ranking top 15% of his faculty, as well as notable distinction in several Directed Research papers. Before joining the Remedios team, Winston’s prior work experience included gaining experience in real estate and commercial transactions at another firm in Greater Vancouver Area, and in structured finance at an international law firm in Beijing, China.

JAN KINDLER

(ASSOCIATE LAWYER)

Languages: Mandarin and Polish

Mr. Kindler joined Remedios & Company as an associate lawyer after completing his articles at the firm in June 2011.

As a member of the firm’s China Practice Group, Mr. Kindler routinely advises China-based companies and investors on various aspects of Canadian corporate/commercial law, specifically:

- mergers and acquisitions
- corporate reorganizations
- joint ventures
- director and officer liability
- corporate finance
- Canadian import regulations

Prior to joining Remedios & Company, Mr. Kindler lived and worked in Hong Kong and completed Mandarin language studies at the National Taiwan University and National Normal Taiwan University. His international legal experience includes an internship at Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson in Hong Kong and a secondment term with Grandall Law Group’s Corporate, M&A & Restructuring group in Beijing.

Mr. Kindler was called to the British Columbia Bar in May of 2011 after graduating from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. and J.D. degree. He is a former recipient of the Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP Prize in Corporate Transactions and the UBC Faculty of Law Dean’s Public Interest Fellowship.

Mr. Kindler speaks Mandarin and Polish

DAVID A. LIDEN

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL)

Languages: French

David is engaged in a general commercial and residential real estate and general corporate and commercial practice, and has a wide range of experience dealing with contracts, condominium projects and real estate development, business law, and conveyancing and mortgages. David's practice also includes wills and estates.

David worked as corporate counsel with the Vancouver office of Canadian Pacific Legal Services from 1983 to 1990, where he acted as chief British Columbia legal counsel for the real estate and private equity investments of the Canadian Pacific Limited Pension Trust Fund in the Province. He subsequently practised with Davis LLP, a major Vancouver law firm, from 1990 to 1993, and then as a sole practitioner from 1993 to 2004, and at DuMoulin Boskovich from 2004 to 2007 prior to joining Remedios & Company.

Called to the Bar: British Columbia, 1981

Education:

LL.B., University of Victoria, 1980

B.A., University of Toronto, 1977

First Degree, Second Degree, University of Pau, France, 1973

Professional Activities:

Member, Canadian Bar Association

Co-author (with R. Keith Thompson) of article entitled, “Investment Rules”, published in Pension Plans II, a course put on by The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia on April 29, 1987

Author of Chapter 37 entitled, Railway Mortgages and Rolling Stock Instruments, published in Due Diligence Deskbook, a publication of The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (September, 1994), and all updates of that chapter up to 2001

Author of Chapter 4 entitled, The Strata Lot, published in BC Strata Property Practice Manual, a publication of The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (May, 2008), and the 2010 and 2011 updates of that chapter.

Past Director (1995 to 2007) and a Past President of HFBC Housing Foundation

Chair of Government Relations Committee and Member of Executive Committee of NAIOP(National Association of Industrial and Office Properties), Vancouver Chapter, 2006 to 2008; Legal Counsel and Member of Executive Committee of NAIOP, 2009.

GARY J. MATSON

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL)

Languages: Japanese

Gary joined Remedios & Co. after practicing at another Vancouver business law firm where he has been instrumental in representing a wide spectrum of Japanese clients. Gary’s practise includes corporate / commercial transactions, extensive experience in real estate transactions and immigration law matters. Gary was called the bar in British Columbia in 1986.

Gary is fluent in spoken and written Japanese, after having lived in Japan for several years. He spent two years at Hiroshima University as a research student in Modern Japanese Literature. Gary also holds an LL.B and Master of Arts in Modern Japanese Literature from the University of British Columbia.

Gary is legal counsel for Kiyukai Japanese-Canadian Business Association and the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce. He is President of Tomoe Arts Society and is a director of the Japanese Community Volunteers Association and the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre. He is also a member of the Canada-Japan Society of British Columbia. Past positions include Chairperson of Tonari Gumi Japanese Community Volunteers Association, President of the Vancouver Mokuyokai Society, President of Vancouver Burrard Lions Club and Zone Chairman of Lions Clubs International, as well as Associate Director of Japanese Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.

TERRY M. MULLEN

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL)

EVAN SAHMET, B.Comm (Hons), LL.B.

Wesbrook Scholar (UBC)

M.S. Lin Scholar ( Inter-Pacific Bar Association )

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL / CONSULTANT IN REAL ESTATE LAW)

JAMES D. SPEARS

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL (BARRISTER))

MARTIN A. THOMAS

(ASSOCIATE COUNSEL)

Martin is a civil litigator who has represented clients in every level of court in British Columbia. While his main interest is in the field of corporate and commercial litigation, Martin has acquired considerable experience in many different areas of civil litigation, including real estate, trusts, insurance, estates, personal injury, debt collection and constitutional law. He has practised with Russell & DuMoulin and Lawson Lundell in Vancouver, and since 1994 has operated his own litigation practice in Richmond and Vancouver.

Martin graduated from Oxford University with First Class Honours in 1974, and was called to the bars of England and Wales in 1977, and British Columbia in 1981. In addition to his extensive litigation experience, Martin has taught law at universities in British Columbia, Singapore and Hong Kong, and since 1996, Martin has been a regular instructor at the British Columbia Law Society's Professional Legal Training Course. Martin has also worked with provincial governments in both British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

ANDREW Z. WLODYKA

(CONSULTANT IN IMMIGRATION LAW)