R. Max Collett

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Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural Resources Infrastructure, Construction and Transport Real Estate Indigenous Law Environmental, Social and Governance Environment Health and Safety Development, Land Use and Zoning

Bar admissionsBritish Columbia, 1998

EXPERIENCE

Counsel on multiple joint ventures with Indigenous groups, including Townline Ventures and Musqueam for phase 2 of leləm̓, which means "home" in Musqueam's Halkomelem language, a 21.4 acre master-planned community in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to the University of British Columbia on land returned to the Musqueam First Nation by the provincial government as part of a reconciliation package.leləm̓ will house 2,500 residents within four 18-storey high-rises, several rows of townhouses and mid-rise apartment buildings, and will include rental housing, a community centre, day care, neighbourhood retail, a park and wetland area
Counsel to multiple regional districts, port authorities, health authorities and municipalities in British Columbia on the procurement, finance, design and construction of infrastructure development, transport and marine shipping terminals, community care and other health care facilities and master planned, mixed use communities
Counsel to Providence Health Care Society on the procurement of a development partner for the design and construction of a multi-building Clinical Support and Research Centre, part of phase one of construction at the new St Paul's Hospital, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, a 600,000 square feet medical and research complex with a multi-party ownership structure
Counsel on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters, including indigenous relations to Royal Bank of Canada as the joint lead arranger in the C$6.6b financing of TC Energy's Coastal GasLink Pipeline project, whose route is between Dawson Creek, BC, and LNG Canada's LNG plant in Kitimat, BC
Counsel to numerous shipyard, tug boat and marine terminal operators in respect of leases with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and Transport Canada, environmental permitting associated with expansion of operations, spill response planning and regulatory compliance
Counsel (real property and environmental law) on legal team advising the province of British Columbia on the Broadway Subway Project, Vancouver, BC, and on the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain Extension Project
Counsel to the Porte group of companies in connection with establishing and advising real estate investment limited partnerships and managing the acquisition and development of commercial real estate portfolios, as well as counsel on numerous residential developments, including the "Origin" and "Lift" on long-term leased lands at Simon Fraser University's innovative UniverCity master planned community, Burnaby, BC
Counsel to Tsawwassen Development Power Centre Limited Partnership in connection with a 99-year land lease from Tsawwassen Nation on treaty lands, the joint venture greenfield development of municipal and infrastructure services, and the construction, finance and lease of Tsawwassen Commons, a landmark 550,000-sq.-ft. retail development in Tsawwassen, BC, together with the related leasing program
Counsel to BC Pavilion Corporation in the development of the Vancouver Convention Centre West, together with an integrated development by way of ground leases for a seaplane terminal, commercial retail podiums, and construction of a marina
Counsel to Canada Lands Company CLC Limited in the phased development of Glenlyon Business Parkand the phased re-development of Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack into the mixed-use 153-acre Garrison Crossing development and the 43-acre River's Edge residential community, Chilliwack, BC

Languages

Education

LL.B., Dalhousie University, 1996

Judicial Law Clerk, British Columbia Supreme Court, 1996-1997

B.A., University of British Columbia, 1992

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Insight Overview

‎ Contributing Editor, The Continuing Legal Education Society of BC Commercial Leasing Annotated Precedents, 2016 – present
"Project Development Partnerships with Indigenous Groups," Lexpert Insights, November 2022.
"British Columbia intends to improve waste soil relocation regulations," Hazmat Magazine, March 24, 2019.

Seminars

Buying and Selling Contaminated Lands, Pacific Business & Law Institute, Vancouver, BC, October 2019 and November 2020.
Drafting the Deal: Words Matter, CLE BC Contaminated Land Clean Up Costs, Vancouver, BC, February 2018

Community Involvement

BC Business Council – Environmental Policy Advisory Group
BC Environment Managers Association of British Columbia
Governance Committee, Cassie & Friends: A Society for Children with Juvenile Arthritis and other Rheumatic Diseases

Memberships and Affiliations

Law Foundation of British Columbia - Governor on the Board of Governors
Continuing Legal Education, British Columbia – Editorial Board Member, Advising British Columbia Businesses
Canadian Bar Association – National Environmental, Energy & Resources Law, Real Property & Environmental Subsections, BC Branch, past chair of Environmental Law Subsection, BC Branch
Canadian Environmental Law Forum