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PRACTICE PROFILE

Robert Pakrul is a member of the Corporate/Commercial Practice.  He also works with members of the Health, Privacy, and Transportation groups.

His practice is primarily corporate commercial based with an emphasis on information and privacy, transportation law, entertainment, and mergers and acquisitions.  He provides advice to a wide variety of organizations in various industry sectors.  He is also a Canadian Trade-mark Agent.  Mr. Pakrul has significant experience working with both large and small non-profit organizations and foundations in their creation, governance, regulatory compliance, and day-to-day operations.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCES

• Assists a major railroad on various aspects of regulatory compliance and contractual relations;
• Establishing customer and employee privacy policies for organizations;
• Advising health authorities on service provider relationships;
• Advising Canadian subsidiaries of foreign corporations in a worldwide reorganization and refinancing.
• Establishing a $100 million endowment foundation for health research.
  

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES

• Speaker, "Privacy Update 2008", Canadian Bar Association Continuing Legal Education
• Speaker, Credit Career Group of Vancouver (January 2008)
• Keynote Speaker, Equifax Customer Forum (May, 2005)
• Speaker - B.C. Human Resources Management Association: “Personal Information Protection Laws” (April, 2003)

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

• Ontario Bar, Member
• B.C. Bar, Member
• Health Information Committee, Canadian Bar Association National Privacy and Access Law Section, Member
• Canadian Bar Association Freedom of Information and Privacy Law B.C. Subsection, Member

ON A PERSONAL NOTE