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Linda I. Parsons, Q.C.
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Biography

Linda Parsons is a senior partner and practises corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on health law, public-private partnerships/alternative financing and banking law.

Born in Toronto, Ms. Parsons has practised law in British Columbia since 1980.

Ms. Parsons' practice focuses on three areas:

Health Law
Ms. Parsons leads the Health Law Practice Group at Davis LLP. She acts for several regional health authorities in British Columbia, including the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Fraser Health Authority. She also represents both public and private hospitals and care facilities and numerous private health products and technical service providers. She has extensive expertise in all matters relating to corporate governance, medical/legal consent and other care-related issues, contractual negotiations and dispute resolutions, privacy and administrative legal matters.

Public-Private Partnerships/Alternative Financing
Building on her extensive corporate commercial background, including numerous acquisition and divestiture transactions for a wide variety of Canadian and international commercial and technological enterprises, Ms. Parsons has become extensively involved in public and private partnership projects including:

• Procurement issues and bid submission;
• Preparation and/or review of project documentation for consideration by the public authority or private proponent;
• Risk transfer, as between the project company and the public authority and as between the project company and each of its principal contractors;
• Drafting and negotiation of the principal contracts with the design-builder and operator;
• Negotiating infrastructure financing;
• Preparation of extensive multi-jurisdictional opinions;
• Coordinating complex multi-party closings.

Recent transactions include: Kicking Horse Canyon (acted for Concessionaire), Golden Ears Bridge (acted for Concessionaire), and Calgary Ring Road (acted for Concessionaire).

Banking and Finance
Ms. Parsons has acted for Canadian banks in numerous financial transactions and has also represented borrowers in significant financing transactions. Ms. Parsons has recently represented lenders and borrowers in the following sectors: construction financing, power plant construction, bio-med high-tech financing, and forestry sector credit facilities.

Publications & Seminars

• Author and editor of Continuing Legal Education Company Law Manual
• Contributing editor to the CCH Corporation Law Manual
• Lectures in courses sponsored by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (Health, Leasing and Corporate Law)
• Lectures for the Faculties of Law, Commerce and Health Administration at the University of British Columbia (Legal Governance and Institutions)
• Author and editor of the Continuing Legal Education Annotated Commercial Lease Precedents
• Author of award-winning Advising British Columbia Businesses (published by CLE)
• Editor and author - Client newsletters of Health Law and Health Privacy
• Editor and author - Client newsletters on BC Business Corporations Act

Media Commentary

• Lawyers Weekly, "Firm biography touts legacy," 11/7/2008.
• Lawyers Weekly, "Unlimited Liability Companies," 3/10/2008.

Volunteer Work

• Past president and current honorary member of Big Sisters of the BC Lower Mainland

Other Activities

• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Executive, Health Law Subsection (British Columbia Branch, CBA)
• Member of the 7-person committee advising the ministry of finance on the new British Columbia Business Corporations Act, which came into force March 29, 2004
• Governor, Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of British Columbia

Education

• LL.B., University of Toronto, 1978
• B.A., University of Toronto, 1975
• Certificate of Conflict Resolution, Justice Institute of British Columbia

Place and Year of Call

• British Columbia, 1980

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