Bernard LLP

Bernard LLP is a boutique law firm in downtown Vancouver, Canada. We advise local, national and international clients on various business, litigation and regulatory matters. Bernard LLP is best known for our extensive work in the marine sector in all four Canadian maritime areas (Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Great Lakes). We also have an extensive array of clients in other sectors ranging from construction to resources, medical professionals, health care, consultants, and services. We advise clients on a wide range of matters including asset and business transactions, private business M&A, employment law, infrastructure construction, engineering services, environmental regulation, commercial litigation, personal injury, family law, forming corporations and other business entities, new business start-ups, transaction financing, joint ventures, business ventures with Indigenous communities and enterprises, water and real estate leases, occupational health and safety, and more. Our marine sector work includes maritime incidents, ship-source oil pollution, charterparties, Coasting Trade Act licences, vessel construction and importation, naval architecture, marine infrastructure, tug and tow operations, waterlot leases, ocean tech, marinas and moorage contracts, to name only a few. We are the Vancouver legal correspondents for 10 of the world's 12 IG P&I clubs (marine liability insurance providers).