Doug Buchanan, Q.C.

Selected Experiences

Professional Associations & Activities

• Corporate Secretary, BC Lions Football Club, Canadian Football League
• Director, Gold Canyon Resources Inc.
• Director, Subaru Canada Inc.
• Director and Chairman of Corporate Governance Committee - Western Financial Group
• Director and Chairman of Corporate Governance Committee - Bank West
• Director and Chairman of Corporate Governance Committee - Western Life Assurance
• Director and Chairman of Corporate Governance Committee - Western Financial Insurance Company
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Canada-Japan Society of British Columbia

Publications

In The News

• Chambers and Partners Recognizes Davis LLP’s National and Global Expertise
  Davis LLP is pleased to announce it has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, an authoritative legal directory, as a Canadian leader in the areas of Projects: PPP & Infrastructure, Band 2, and [more]
  Friday, 16 March 2012
• Davis PPP Project Wins Award
  The Surrey Pretrial Services Centre Expansion Project, which Davis LLP closed earlier this year, won a gold award for innovation and excellence in public-private partnership infrastructure development [more]
  Friday, 16 December 2011
• Davis Lawyers Selected by Peers as "Best"
  Davis LLP is proud to announce that 28 of the firm's lawyers have been named in 23 categories to the list of Best Lawyers in Canada 2012. "As these rankings demonstrate, Davis is home to [more]
  Wednesday, 28 September 2011
• Davis Team Closes Quinte Courthouse Transaction
  On Tuesday, June 21, 2011, Brookfield Infrastructure Partnerships Quinte entered into an agreement with the Province of Ontario to design, build, finance and maintain the Quinte Consolidated Courthouse, [more]
  Tuesday, 9 August 2011
• Davis LLP features prominently in recent P3 articles
  In two articles recently published in the Financial Post, Davis Lawyers are featured prominently. The article titled "Public accepts P3 deals," discusses the public's growing acceptance [more]
  Wednesday, 1 December 2010
• Doug Buchanan Chosen Lawyer of the Week
  Doug Buchanan was recently chosen "lawyer of the week" by Lawyer's Weekly. Mr. Buchanan, a former Olympian, cattle rancher and professional hockey player in both North America and Japan [more]
  Wednesday, 6 October 2010
• Davis lawyers and practice areas recognized in the 2010 edition of Lexpert
  Once again Davis LLP is well represented in the annual Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. Published since 1997, Lexpert identifies leading lawyers across Canada in 64 practice areas through an extensive [more]
  Wednesday, 9 June 2010
• Canada Line Rapid Transit Project Achieves Service Commencement
  On August 12, 2009, the Canada Line Rapid Transit Project formally achieved Service Commencement, a significant milestone in the Project's development, approximately three and a half months ahead [more]
  Thursday, 13 August 2009
• Four Davis Lawyers Named in Lexpert/ALM's Leading Lawyer List
  In their annually released Guide to The Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert/American Lawyer has named four Davis lawyers to this prestigious list in 2009. Doug Buchanan, Howard Kellough, Terence Dalgleish [more]
  Monday, 19 January 2009
• Northwest Anthony Henday Drive Project (Edmonton Ring Road) wins Americas P3 Deal of the Year in Project Finance International Magazine Awards
  Representing NORTHWESTCONNECT General Partnership and Bilfinger Berger Project Investments Inc. were members of our Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton offices, including Ian Bendell, Andrew Burton, Eric [more]
  Thursday, 18 December 2008
• Douglas H. Shell and Douglas B. Buchanan Appointed to Queen's Counsel
  Davis LLP is pleased to announce that two of the firm's senior partners have been recently honoured with the designation of Queen's Counsel, conferred on members of the legal profession in order [more]
  Monday, 11 February 2008
• Twenty Davis Lawyers Ranked as "Best Lawyers in Canada" for 2008
  Several Davis LLP lawyers were selected by peers to be in upcoming edition of "Best Lawyers in Canada". Calgary Terence Dalgleish: Energy Regulatory Law Edmonton Robert [more]
  Wednesday, 25 July 2007
• Doug Buchanan Quoted in Lexpert Article on Law Firm Marketing
  Doug Buchanan, National Managing Partner of Davis LLP, is extensively quoted in the July/August 2007 Lexpert magazine article "Law Firm Marketing: Making It Rain". Doug discusses how he [more]
  Wednesday, 18 July 2007
• Golden Ears Bridge P3 Project Wins Fourth Prestigious Award
  March 2, 2007: "The Golden Ears Bridge P3 Project has been chosen as Infrastructure Journal's Deal of the Year. According to Infrastructure Journal, the Bilfinger Berger-led Golden Ears Bridge [more]
  Thursday, 1 March 2007
• $650 Million Calgary Ring Road P3 Project Closes
  he Davis Projects team effected commercial and financial close of the $650 million Calgary Ring Road project for Stoney Trail Group (STG), the Bilfinger Berger BOT Inc. consortium. STG was selected as [more]
  Thursday, 15 February 2007
• Davis LLP's Expansion Plans and Aggressive Recruiting Campaign Draw Attention
  First published in The Globe and Mail, February 14, 2007 | Beppi Crosarol Davis Makes its Pitch for Partners Few people know better than Doug Buchanan how hard it can be to crack Toronto's [more]
  Tuesday, 13 February 2007
• Davis Represents Canfor Pulp Income Fund in US$110 million Cross-Border Private Placement and $75 Million Credit Facility
  Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (CPLP), the operating subsidiary of Canfor Pulp Income Trust, completed two debt financings, one by private placement of US$110 million of unsecured notes to institutional [more]
  Wednesday, 29 November 2006
• $1.1 billion Golden Ears Bridge Project Wins Project Financing Award
  The $1.1 billion Golden Ears Bridge Project was awarded the "Gold Award for Project Financing" at the annual national Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships conference in Toronto, [more]
  Sunday, 19 November 2006
• $1.1 billion Golden Ears Bridge Project achieves successful commercial, financial and final close
  The Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority ("TransLink") completed the commercial, financial and final close of the $1.117 billion Golden Ears Bridge Project (the "GEB Project") [more]
  Thursday, 9 March 2006
• Davis LLP Partners Profiled in 2007 Chambers Global Guide
  Davis LLP partners are profiled in the 2007 Chambers Global Guide in the following categories: Banking & Finance and Projects (Doug Buchanan) Projects (Ian Bendell, Foreign Legal Consultant) [more]
  Sunday, 5 February 2006
• The Canada Line P3 Project (RAV Project) Wins Project Finance Magazine/PFI Magazine Awards
  The Canada Line public-private partnership (P3) project (RAV Project) earned the prestigious "North American Transport Deal of the Year" by Project Finance Magazine (New York) and "Infrastructure [more]
  Thursday, 2 February 2006
• Davis LLP Represents Bilfinger Berger and Trans-Park Highway on Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 2 P3
  Bilfinger Berger BOT Inc. and Trans-Park Highway General Partnership successfully closed the $130 million design-build-finance-operate Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 2 public-private partnership (P3) project [more]
  Thursday, 27 October 2005
• Davis LLP Represents SNC-Lavalin and InTransit BC in Canada's Largest Public-Private Partnership Transaction
  RAV Project Management Ltd. (RAVCO), InTransit British Columbia Limited Partnership (InTransit BC) and the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (GVTA) closed its long-term Concession Agreement [more]
  Thursday, 28 July 2005
• Davis LLP Represents SNC-Lavalin in Concession Agreement and $157 Million Financing for New Okanagan Lake Bridge
  The Province of British Columbia (Ministry of Transportation and the BC Transportation Financing Authority) and the Okanagan Lake Concession Limited Partnership, a sole purpose limited partnership established [more]
  Sunday, 3 July 2005
• Davis LLP Represents Brascan in Acquisition of Weyerhaeuser's BC Timber Assets
  Brascan Corporation completed the acquisition of Weyerhaeuser Company Limited's British Columbia coastal business for approximately C$1.2 billion, plus working capital, in a transaction which included: [more]
  Sunday, 29 May 2005
• Davis LLP Represents Oji Paper in Reorganization of Howe Sound Joint Venture with Canfor
  Canfor Corporation and Oji Paper Co., Ltd. of Japan completed the reorganization of their pulp and newsprint joint venture, Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited, as a limited partnership. The reorganization [more]
  Saturday, 10 March 2001

Recognition

• Chambers Global, Projects: PPP & Infrastructure, Band 1 (Canada); Banking & Finance, Band 2 (Canada), 2012
• Global Law Experts (Project Finance - Japan), 2011
• Best Lawyers in Canada (Banking & Finance, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Structured Finance Law), 2011
• Who's Who Legal (Project Finance, Public Procurement), 2011
• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Banking & Financial Institutions, Corporate Commercial Law), Most Frequently Recommended, 2011
• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Project Finance), Consistently Recommended, 2011
• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Corporate Mid-Market, Mergers & Acquisitions), Repeatedly Recommended, 2011
• Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Commercial Law), Most Frequently Recommended, 2011
• The Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers