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OCTOBER 2017
People on the Move
A snapshot of recent hires, mergers, splits and appointments across Canada BY GENA SMITH
BRITISH COLUMBIA VANCOUVER
In Vancouver, Craig Munroe joined Fasken
Martineau DuMoulin LLP as a partner
practising labour employment law. Mun-
roe moved from the firm Gall Legge Grant
& Munroe LLP, where he was a founding
partner. (e firm has since renamed to Gall
Legge Grant Zwack LLP.) He advises pub-
lic and private clients alike; and regularly
appears before various courts and tribunals
including the British Columbia Labour Re-
lations Board, the Canada Industrial Rela-
tions Board, grievance arbitration panels,
the British Columbia Human Rights Tri-
bunal, and the provincial and federal courts.
e Honourable Marshall Rothstein,
QC, was appointed a Companion of the Or-
der of Canada, the highest honour available.
e appointment, which was announced
on June 30, was granted to Rothstein for
"his eminent service as a jurist, notably on
the Supreme Court of Canada, and for his
dedication to legal education." Rothstein's
career began as a civil litigator in private
practice and included 23 years on the Bench,
with the last nine years serving on Canada's
highest court. He joined Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP as a partner in the firm's tax
litigation practice in May, where he provides
his counsel alongside former Federal Court
of Appeal Justice Karen Sharlow and recent
partner addition David Jacyk (see above).
Kirsten Kjellander rejoined Borden
Ladner Gervais LLP as a partner, aer start-
ing her career there in 2005. Her practice fo-
cuses on international and public company
taxation. She has experience advising clients
on a wide range of domestic and interna-
tional tax issues and has particular experi-
ence with the interpretation of tax treaties,
the offshore trust rules, public-private part-
nerships, debt restructurings, cross-border
transactions and the general anti-avoidance
rule (GAAR). She was most recently with
KPMG/KPMG Law.
David Jacyk has transitioned to
private practice, moving to Os-
ler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP after
spending two years at the Crown
Law Office and Inland Revenue
departments in New Zealand. He
joins Osler as partner and head of
its Vancouver tax disputes prac-
tice. He is an experienced practi-
tioner of taxation litigation, most
notably with the Department of
Justice Canada as General Coun-
sel. He has been involved in litigat-
ing many of Canada's high-profile
tax cases for the Crown. He was
called to the BC Bar in 2002.
BAHAR HAFIZI
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
Vancouver
Banking & Financial Services
DAVID JACYK
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Vancouver
Tax Litigation
CAMERON HUGHES
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Calgary
M&A
Bahar Hafizi joined Gowling WLG
(Canada) LLP as a partner, where
she advises on financing and
lending. Most recently, she led
the Financial Services Group at
McCullough O'Connor & Irwin LLP,
where her work focused primarily
on debt and non-public financings.
Prior to that, she was a partner
at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Hafizi acts for a number of Can-
adian chartered banks and other
Canadian and US financial institu-
tions, as well as corporate borrow-
ers, including mining and environ-
mental remediation companies.
Cameron Hughes joined McCarthy
Tétrault LLP as a partner, after
moving from Dentons Canada LLP.
Hughes provides integrated and
strategic advice in the energy sec-
tor including refineries, pipelines,
climate change and renewables.
For example, he recently led the
team advising Enbridge Inc. in its
$538-million acquisition of Tupper
Main and Tupper West gas plants
and associated sales gas pipe-
lines in northeastern BC from the
Canadian subsidiary of Murphy Oil
Corp., as well as the negotiation of
a Midstream Services Agreement.
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