RBS - Key Persons


Ajay Gill

Job Titles:
  • Articling Student

Albert Norton Richards

Albert Norton Richards became the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of BC, on July 28, 1876.

Alex L. Eged

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Alexander Bogdan

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Alexander M. Lee

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Alexandra Mah

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Alison Quinnell

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Amir A. Ghahreman

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel
  • Member of the Firm
Practice Areas Business Transactions Business Services Employment & Human Rights Amir is a member of the firm's Business Transactions, Business Law and Employment and Human Rights Practice Groups. Prior to joining RBS, Amir practised with a Downtown Vancouver firm for more than 10 years where he advised private companies and individuals on a wide range of legal issues primarily relating to private company M&A, general corporate/commercial, and employment matters. Prior to law school, Amir worked at Deloitte while obtaining his CPA, CA designation.

Amy Redden

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Andra Low

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Aneez N. Devji

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner, Vancouver

Angela M. Spanjers

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner, Surrey

Annie Hodgson

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Annika Youn

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Ariel Lekas

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Practice Areas Estate & Wealth Advisory Estate and Trust Administration Personal Planning: Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Health Care Private Business and Family Enterprise Planning Trusts

Arielle Lavender

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Chair of Student Committee

Atena Amiryaghoobi

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Avril Samuels-Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
Education University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1992 University of British Columbia, B.Com. (Hons.), 1992

Benjamin Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Brad Nowikow

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Brendan Bachewich

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Brianna Dallyn

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Bronwen Jamison

Job Titles:
  • Librarian

C. Nicole Mangan

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Carol Chan

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Carrie-Anne Reelie

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Cheryl Denny

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
Education 1989, LL.B., University of British Columbia 1983 to 1986, Environmental & Resource Geography, University of British Columbia

Christine D. Lowe

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Christine Digby

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Cindy Hildebrandt - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources

Corinne Hospes

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Corrina Wright

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Services Supervisor / Paralegal

Daniel D. Nugent

Job Titles:
  • Partner

David L. Cayley

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel

David Steven Wallbridge

Job Titles:
  • Partner at W.J. Bower 's Firm, in Front of His Real Estate Office in Gastown
  • Partner With Bowser Reid and Wallbridge for over Thirty Years.
David Steven Wallbridge, a partner at W.J. Bower's firm, in front of his real estate office in Gastown. David Steven Wallbridge, a partner with Bowser Reid and Wallbridge for over thirty years.

David W. Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Practice Areas Business Reorganizations Business Services Business Transactions Corporate Services Employment & Human Rights

David W. Hay

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Dorin Tan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Paralegal
Education University of Calgary, LL.B., 2003 University of Hong Kong (exchange semester) 2003 University of Calgary, B.Sc.,1999

Dorwin J. Cho

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel

Douglas G. Cottier

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Edgar Bloomfield

Job Titles:
  • Partner With John H. Senkler, in His Barrister 's Garb

Eduardo De Souza

Job Titles:
  • Practice Manager
  • Wealth Preservation Group Practice Manager
Education 2013, MacEwan University, Edmonton Alberta - Bachelor of Science 2016, University of Alberta - Juris Doctor

Eryn Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Eryn MacKenzie

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Esra Yacout

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Esther E.J. Sohn

Job Titles:
  • Counsel

Esther Leung

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Gail Wasilenchuk

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Georg D. Reuter

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Georg Reuter is a partner and the practice leader for the Employment and Human Rights Group. He is also a member of the Advanced Education and Research Practice Group, and has over 25 years of experience in the areas of employment and human rights law, as well as intellectual property and licensing law, with a particular focus on the transfers of new technologies from academic institutions to business. Georg has worked closely with many of BC's advanced education and research institutions to assist them in commercialization of their technologies, including The University of British Columbia (UBC), the Centre for Drug Research and Development, the Vancouver Prostate Centre, and the BC Cancer Agency. On the employment side of his practice, Georg assist both employers and employees in negotiating and drafting employment related agreements and policies, and in advising on strategies for hiring (and where necessary) terminating employees. Georg has advised UBC on the licence and research collaboration agreements that underpin the more than 80 life science spin-off companies started at UBC. In particular, Georg focuses on licensing and technology transfer transactions, with extensive experience in dealing with transfers between institutions (e.g., universities, hospitals, research facilities) and businesses in the life science and software industries. In 2015 Georg was a key contributor to UBC's licence with Roche Pharmaceuticals, executed in December 2015. This deal was UBC's largest ever, with up to $141.7 million US in pre-clinical, clinical and sales milestone payments and royalties thereafter.

Gigi Beckett

Job Titles:
  • a Real Estate Paralegal
  • Paralegal
Gigi joined RBS as a Real Estate paralegal in 2023, assisting in the many facets of residential and commercial real estate development, from property acquisition, private and commercial financing, property development, through to project sales.

Greta I. Reiten

Job Titles:
  • Partner

H. Scott MacDonald

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel

Hana Holbrook

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Hannah Hood

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
Education University of British Columbia, LL.B., 2002 University of Victoria, B.A. Hons., with Distinction, Sociology, 1999

Heather McCann

Job Titles:
  • Summer Student

Ivana Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Jaclyn Mansfield

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Jade Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

James D. Vilvang

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel

Jeenat Gill

Job Titles:
  • Summer Student

Jeevan V. Ahuja

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Firm
Practice Areas Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions and Sales Commercial Leasing Lending and Secured Transactions Real Estate Real Estate Development Jeevan is a member of the firm's Real Estate Group. He practices in all aspects of residential and commercial real estate development, including purchases, financing, marketing, development, sale and leasing.

Jen Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Jennifer M. Wong

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Jill Mackey

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Joe C. Chan

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Practice Group Leader of Our Asia Pacific Group
Joe Chan is the Practice Group Leader of our Asia Pacific Group, and a member of the firm's Business, and Technology and Innovation Groups. He has been a member of Richards Buell Sutton since moving to Vancouver more than a decade ago. Prior to that move, he lived and practiced law in Calgary. Through all of that time - and now - Joe has advised on business law, mergers and acquisitions, and securities/corporate finance matters for a broad range of clients, including TSX/NEO/TSXV/CSE listed public, mining, resource, real estate investment, technology, and video game companies. He also advises on trusts and joint ventures, and for restaurants, artists and writers, to name a few. Joe has experience with a wide array of mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions, assisting clients from the "start-up" phase of their business to the "exit" sale of their business, and all issues and challenges that arise in-between - all with a focus on providing sensible, practical advice to help his clients realize their dreams (and, hopefully more). He has also worked on securities law matters, from assisting clients through their IPOs, debt and equity financings, corporate governance matters, plans of arrangement, and ‘go private' transactions, as well as on a broad range of cross-border transactions. Outside of his legal work, Joe has written about food, music and art for numerous publications, was the publisher/editor of a monthly arts/culture magazine, and a co-editor/writer for two food websites. Joe provides legal services through Joe Chan Law Corporation.

Jonathan M.S. Woolley

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Judy Cheung

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Julie Green

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Karin Binder

Job Titles:
  • Trademark Agent

Katherine Ho

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Kathryn Novakowski

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Katie Hounslow

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Kiran K. Dhesa

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Lindsay Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Mahsa Eskandari

Job Titles:
  • Office Services Manager

Max S.J. Shilleto

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Melissa L. Heywood

Job Titles:
  • Trademark Agent

Michael A. Kale

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel

Michael P. Leroux

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Michelle A. Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Michelle Humeny

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Morgan Fowler

Job Titles:
  • Director of Professional Development

Nancy Read - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Navneet Aujla

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Nicholas M. Safarik

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Patricia M. Fleming

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Priscilla Martindale

Job Titles:
  • Marketing & Business Development Manager

Reshmi Naicker

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager

Richard Coupland Spinks

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner of Senkler Spinks, and Van Horne, Lower Right Hand Corner of the Picture. Mr. Spinks Fought in World War L and Died in Battle at Vimy Ridge in 1917
Richard Coupland Spinks, Managing Partner of Senkler Spinks, and Van Horne, lower right hand corner of the picture. Mr. Spinks fought in World War l and died in battle at Vimy Ridge in 1917.

Robert J. Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Counsel

Ryan A. Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Ryan M. Klassen

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Saad Patel

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Sally Hung

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Shannon Himmrich

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Sharon E. White

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Shelly Johal

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Shirley Madden

Job Titles:
  • Director of Information Technology

Silvana M. Facchin

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Soniya Pillay

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Steven S. Mangat

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Practice Areas Business Transactions South Asian Business Services Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions and Sales Mergers and Acquisitions

Susan Rose

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
Education 2010, J.D., University of Victoria 2006, B.A., Simon Fraser University

Susie Shong

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Sze-Mei Yeung

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Tania Moore

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
Education University of Victoria, J.D., 2020 University of British Columbia, B.A., 2016

Taylor Fitzpatrick

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Taylor Hall

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Tim H.R. Brown

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Tommy M. Chan

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Trina Ridley

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Services Supervisor / Paralegal

Trisha A. Doré

Job Titles:
  • Partner of Accupro Trademark Services LLP / Trademark Agent

Varun Dhaul

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Veronika Florianova

Job Titles:
  • Associate

William Allan Sutton

Job Titles:
  • Partner With Robie Reid and David S. Wallbridge, and from Whom the Sutton in Our Name Originates
William Allan Sutton, partner with Robie Reid and David S. Wallbridge, and from whom the Sutton in our name originates.