Professional Background
Bill has practiced law in Calgary since 1977, focusing on tax, wills and estate planning law corporate reorganizations for business clients. Bill joined Miles Davison LLP in 2002.
Since returning to private practice in 1989, following 6 years as in-house tax counsel at Texaco Canada Resources, Bill has been extensively involved with structuring and reorganizing corporations, owner-managed businesses and partnerships.
Bill recently completed the successful negotiation of a Service Contract with the National Iranian Oil Company in Iran on behalf of a Canadian public company.
His preferred areas of practice are as counsel:
- for estate and probate matters and applications
- to corporate management and boards of directors in Canadian and international
- corporate-commercial and tax structuring matters
- to public and private corporations in structuring reorganizations for domestic and international agreements
- for wills and estate planning
- for tax issues and planning
Education
- 1971 University of Calgary B.A., Economics
- 1976 Carleton University, B. Comm., Honours
- 1977 University of Ottawa, LL.B.
- 1978 Admitted to the Bar of Alberta
Professional and Community Experience
- Member, Alberta Statutes Legislative Review Committee, since 1981
- Member, Calgary Estate Planning Council, since 1979
- Member, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (Calgary branch)
- Member, Canadian Bar Association; Tax, Securities,International Business Law, and Wills and Estates Sections
- Guest Lecturer, Business and Environment Lecture Series, University of Calgary, Faculty of Management
- Current Chairperson, SAIT Trojan Athletic Foundation Board, Executive Committee
- Founding Director and Past President, Country Hills Golf and Country Club
- Past President, Calgary Winter Club Board of Directors
- Bill was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008