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Alvin Mak

Associate
Edmonton
About

Alvin is a member of the Corporate group with a practice that encompasses corporate and ‎commercial matters, ‎construction dispute resolution, commercial real estate, and pension and employee ‎benefits.‎

Alvin’s practice encompasses a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including share purchase ‎‎transactions, corporate organization and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, employment matters, and ‎‎pension and benefits matters. He also assists with construction disputes, financing and real estate ‎matters.‎

His experience includes: providing governance advice to pension and employee benefits trust funds, ‎reviewing and advising on investment funds and investment management agreements for pension and ‎benefit plans, acting for pension funds with respect to division of pension benefits upon marriage ‎breakdown, and acting for pension funds and employee benefit funds in the collection of contributions from ‎participating employers. In 2023, Alvin was named to the Best Lawyers Canada Ones to Watch list.‎

Alvin articled with the firm in 2015 and joined the firm as an associate in 2016‎.‎

Areas of FocusFinancial ServicesCorporateReal EstateConstruction and EngineeringEmployment
Bar admissionsAlberta, 2016

EXPERIENCE

  • Acted for the Seller in the sale of a multi-million dollar, medical office building comprised of ‎approximately 120,000 square feet of leasable area.‎
  • Acted for the Canadian subsidiary of a large, international investment management firm in the sale of a ‎multi-million dollar commercial office building comprised of approximately 140,000 square feet of ‎leasable area.‎
  • Acted in the restructuring of the Canadian subsidiaries of a large, US-based publicly traded company.‎
  • Acted for a European public corporation with respect to establishing a Canadian subsidiary and with ‎respect to the purchase of a Canadian corporation providing transportation and logistics services in ‎Canada.‎
  • Acted for the Seller in the sale of an airport hangar and related assets.‎
  • Acted for a large, international investment management firm with respect to establishing a Canadian ‎subsidiary and purchasing commercial property in Canada.‎
Languages
  • English
Education
  • J.D. with Distinction, University of Alberta, 2015
  • B.A. with Distinction, University of Alberta, 2012
  • B.Sc., University of Alberta, 2009

Awards

  • Best Lawyers Canada, Lawyer to Watch (Real Estate Law), 2023-2025

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

  • Volunteer, Hockey Education Reaching Out Society (HEROS), Edmonton, 2015 - 2018
  • Workplace Volunteer, United Way Campaign, Edmonton, 2015 
  • Legal Education at the Bissell Centre, Student Legal Services, Edmonton, 2012 and 2013

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member, Law Society of Alberta 
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association

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