Edwards, Kenny & Bray LLP - Barristers and Solicitors

• LEGAL SERVICES

FORESTRY

Edwards, Kenny & Bray LLP represents many companies in British Columbia’s forest industry. From the sale and purchase of businesses to mergers and re-organizations of forest companies, from advice on regulatory compliance to representation before administrative tribunals or governmental officials, EKB's Forestry Practice Group provides innovative and practical solutions.

Legal Services

EKB offers services in several areas, including:

• Purchase and sale of forest industry businesses
• Mergers and re-organizations
• Timber harvesting contracts and sub-contracts
• Log purchase and sale contracts
• Environmental compliance
• Public and private financing
• Transfers of timber tenures, rights and licences
• Purchases and leases of aircraft used in the forest industry
• Land use or purchase agreements involving forest lands
• Agreements among shareholders of private forest industry companies
• Mediation, arbitration and litigation of forest industry disputes

EKB has assisted many clients on a variety of matters, including:

• Acting as counsel in the acquisition of logging companies holding various forms of timber tenures
• Acting as counsel in the purchase and sale of a sawmill
• Negotiating terms of replaceable and non-replaceable contracts and sub-contracts under the Timber Harvesting Contract and Sub-contract Regulations
• Conducting a review of the rights and obligations of private forest land owners as to the prevention and suppression of forest fires under the Wildfire Act
• Acting as counsel on purchase and sale of replaceable and non-replaceable timber harvesting contracts and companies holding such contracts
• Advising stump-to-dump contractors on Forestry Revitalization Proposals

Practice Group