Linda Parsons, Q.C.

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

Linda' practice focuses on three areas:

Health Law

Linda 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, Linda 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

Linda has acted for Canadian banks in numerous financial transactions and has also represented borrowers in significant financing transactions.

Linda has recently represented lenders and borrowers in the following sectors:

• construction financing
• power plant construction
• bio-med high-tech financing
• forestry sector credit facilities