Laura Safran, Q.C.
Partner, Calgary
Laura M. Safran, Q.C., is a senior partner in the firm's Calgary office and specializes in the areas of corporate/commercial, intellectual property and technology law. She also is the head of Davis LLP's national Aviation Law Practice Group, and co-head of the Davis LLP national Education Law Practice Group. 
Laura acts for national and international corporations, major institutions and government entities in respect of a wide variety of commercial and corporate transactions, including asset and share sales, asset leasing, asset-based financings, partnerships, joint ventures, corporate governance, outsourcing transactions and restructurings. Laura has led significant mergers and acquisitions transactions on national and international levels. She also represents public sector clients in the education and health fields and has worked on a variety of public-private infrastructure transactions. Laura's practice also includes significant intellectual property and information technology related transactions. She has many years experience in the education law field and recently acted as Acting General Counsel of a major school board and is general corporate counsel to a well known post-secondary polytechnical training institute. Laura held the position of Vice-President, Law and Corporate Secretary of Canadian Airlines International for a number of years. Since returning to private practice, she has represented a wide variety of aviation-industry clients with respect to new and used aircraft acquisitions, dispositions, leases and financings, airline operational and safety matters, aviation regulatory issues, aviation claims work, airport related matters and international air law matters. Laura completed the update to the Canadian Encyclopedia Digest (4th ed.) on Aviation (Carswell) , the first update since 1998 and also provided Canadian updates to "Getting the Deal Through - Air Transport" for a number or years. She has also spoken widely on aviation law issues, most recently at the International Air & Space Law Symposium held in Beijing by the China University of Political Science & Law. Laura is consistently noted as a leading lawyer by all of the noteworthy legal directories including Lexpert, Best Lawyers in Canada, Who's Who Legal and the Euromoney Guide to the Worlds’ Leading Aviation Lawyers. She has been named one of Canada's Most Powerful Women (2004) in the Globe & Mail, as well as one of the Leading Women Lawyers in Canada (2009) by Lexpert. Laura is a member of the Law Societies of Alberta and British Columbia. She also is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Calgary International Airport Authority and of The Van Horne Institute. She has been appointed to the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada as a part-time member for a four-year term. Selected ExperiencesProfessional Associations & Activities
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