Amir A. Ghahreman

OVERVIEW

Amir is a member of the firm’s Business Law Services, Business Transactions and Employment & Human Rights Practice Groups. Prior to joining Richards Buell Sutton, Amir practised with a downtown Vancouver firm for more than 10 years advising private companies and individuals on a wide range of legal issues primarily relating to M&A, corporate, commercial and employment matters. Prior to law school, Amir worked as an accountant and obtained his CPA, CA designation.

In his practice, Amir strives to understand a client’s strategic objectives and to provide practical legal advice which is sensitive to those objectives. Where appropriate, he applies his accounting knowledge to the applicable language of M&A and other contracts so that his clients clearly understand the interplay between their accounting policies and those contracts.

Outside of legal practice, Amir enjoys jazz, guitar and tennis along with skiing and other outdoor pursuits.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT WORK

BUSINESS

• Mergers and acquisitions for private companies across various industries, from the letter-of-intent stage through to closing and post-closing activities
• Shareholder agreements and limited partnership agreements in both closely-held and more widely-held ownership scenarios
• General commercial advice on a wide variety of contracts such as contractor agreements, terms and conditions, services agreements, leases and other matters
• General corporate legal work from the incorporation level to implementing alterations to account for changing circumstances such as new shareholders
• In tandem with tax advisors, corporate reorganizations of privately-held companies including for incorporated professionals
• Coordinating and working with legal counsel in other jurisdictions where a client’s scope reaches beyond the borders of B.C. or Canada, as applicable

EMPLOYMENT

• Implementing and amending employment agreements
• Advising on the rights and obligations arising out of employment arrangements including termination scenarios

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Amir is a Clinic Adjunct Professor at the Richards Buell Sutton Centre for Business Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

For the past several years, Amir has contributed to the Law Society of British Columbia by assisting in the revision of the accounting chapter of the Professional Legal Training Course materials, as well as collaborating with the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia to update various corporate and commercial practice checklists.

Amir actively supports local wrestling clubs through volunteer coaching and has previously served as a director of the BC Wrestling Association.