Partner

B. R. (Brian) Canfield *

Office

Vancouver

Key Practice Area

Corporate & Commercial, Corporate Finance & Securities

Year of Call

1991

*A Law Corporation

Qualifications

Education

Brian Canfield is a strategic advisor for his business clients. He focuses on facilitating opportunities and solving problems on their behalf by combining his extensive legal experience, business background, and negotiation skills with diligence, creativity, and common sense.

He is often asked to handle difficult negotiations, tight timelines, or similar challenges for his clients in buying and selling businesses or real estate, raising equity and debt financing, facilitating regulatory approvals, settling shareholder or other disputes, restructuring, governance and other matters.

Brian has a wide range of experience in assisting both public and private clients, including Boards and Special Committees, with a special emphasis on acting for established and emerging founders/entrepreneurs. His clients operate in many key industries including automotive, construction, financial, food and beverage, hospitality, infrastructure, real estate, resource, and technology.

  • Member of the Law Society of British Columbia
  • Member of the Washington State Bar Association
  • Member of the Law Society of Alberta
  • The Best Lawyers in Canada (2026)
  • The Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” in Securities Law (2025)
  • Lexpert Leading Lawyers in Canada (2025)
  • Lexpert Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers (2024)
  • Martindale-Hubbell Ranking (BV)