Ryan Edwards Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provide strategic legal and business support to Business Development team, including the formation and administration of joint ventures.• Provide legal support in relation to Major Projects team, including the negotiation of construction agreements, procurement agreements, and a variety of land transactions and instruments, and ongoing contractor management.• Provide competent and practical advice regarding the resolution of disputes and claims.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for all company secretarial and corporate governance duties and responsibilities, including organizing, preparing agendas for, and taking minutes of board meetings.• Providing advice to executive team on administrative matters.• Maintaining minute books.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided strategic legal and business support in relation to materials and services procurement.• Provided legal support in relation to securities reporting and disclosure activities, including coordinating completion and filing of annual information form and review of management disclosure and analysis and serving as internal compliance representative regarding securities obligations.• Provided strategic legal and business support in relation to construction and engineering projects, including process development, contractor management, and dispute resolution.• Provided legal and business advice in relation to commercial real estate; human resources and employment issues; land and right-of-way matters, including landowner relationships; information technology and information systems licensing and implementation; and occupational health and safety, including procedure development and review.

Calgary

Governance and Nominating Committee, ChairExecutive Committee, Secretary• Responsible for: oversight of Board and company governance, including review and updating of bylaws and policies; recruiting, interviewing, and nominating new Board members; promoting Board engagement, and ensuring all Board committees are adequately resourced.• Involved in setting strategic direction of one of Alberta’s largest theatre companies, including chairing monthly committee meetings, attending monthly Board meetings, and reviewing and approving financial statements from the Executive Director.• Provided business direction and legal guidance in relation to re-negotiation of occupancy agreement between ATP and the theatre complex operator.

Calgary

• Provided both high-level and in-depth legal and business advice in relation to private entity corporate governance, including supervising work performed by Corporate Secretary group, and served as mentor for paralegals in relation to drafting, corporate governance, and business strategy.• Provided legal and business advice in relation to a wide variety of corporate/commercial matters, including: commercial real estate; intra-group and external credit and finance; derivatives transactions; credit risk and the assessment and provision of security; tax reorganizations; and commercial litigation.

Calgary, Alberta

• Provided legal and business advice in relation to a broad range of corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters, including: administering corporate policies; preparing board resolutions and information reports for the board of directors; reviewing marketing and brand communications (including retail marketing and advertising and contest administration); and administering compliance plans and completing quarterly and annual reporting to the board of directors and regulators.• Led investigations into occupational health and safety incidents, privacy complaints, human rights complaints, and ethics violations complaints. Prepared and delivered reports and recommendations to executive team and board of directors.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided legal and business advice, as a member of the Legal Infrastructure Team, in relation to: drafting and negotiation of engineering-procurement-construction-management (EPCM) agreements; construction-related tendering for owner on material procurement; drafting and negotiating a wide variety of agreements including consulting, service, IT licensing, and material purchase; human resources issues; occupational health and safety issues; alcohol and drug policy issues; and pandemic and business continuity planning. Provided legal and business advice as member of anti-terrorism and security committees.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided legal advice in various practice areas including: construction matters, with emphases on builders’ liens, surety, insurance, bidding and other construction disputes; general commercial litigation; general insurance matters (including providing coverage opinions, and running defence and subrogated claims in matters relating to construction, automobile, and fire losses); civil enforcement; and general corporate contract document preparation, negotiation and interpretation.• Appeared in Alberta Provincial Court (Civil), Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, and Alberta Court of Appeal.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Primary areas of practice included: commercial litigation with a focus on insurance defence and subrogated claims; enforcement of creditors’ rights; and agreement drafting and interpretation.

Edmonton

• Researched and updated faculty-produced casebooks for courses including administrative law; personal property security law; bankruptcy and insolvency; wills and estates; and jurisprudence.

Calgary

• Conducted extensive legal research in practice areas including construction litigation and general corporate/ commercial; assisted with the drafting, review, and updating of corporate constating documents and minute books.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Managed all aspects of case files from first contact to enrolment and progress through the AD/HD neurofeedback and counselling program for individuals across age groups.Provided crisis counselling with a focus on adolescent transitions.

Osaka, Japan

• Taught English as a second language to students aged 5 to 75 at a range of proficiency from basic conversational skills to near-native speaker levels.

Ll.B., Law

B.A. (Hons.), Psychology

Psychology

Philosophy