Victor Harwardt*

*Victor P. Harwardt Law Corporation

Associate Counsel

With over forty years of experience, Victor is known for the significant depth of knowledge and expertise he brings to all dealings with his clients.

Biography

Victor maintains a busy practice focused on corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on corporate finance and securities matters. He has created a reputation for himself based on the focused and common sense approach to problem solving that he brings to each and every one of his files.

Victor’s clients include privately held companies, junior and senior stock exchange listed companies, as well as underwriters and investment dealers involved in the Canadian capital markets.

Victor works with his clients on a wide range of matters including public and private equity financings, initial public offerings, stock exchange listings, mergers, acquisition and other corporate combinations and arrangements, debt financings and restructurings, corporate governance, mining agreements including joint ventures, licensing and other assets transfer and divestiture arrangements.

He has served on the boards of publicly listed companies and is currently a Director and member of the Audit Committee of Builders Capital Mortgage Corp., a TSX Venture Exchange listed issuer.

Victor is conversant in German and enjoys travelling with his wife to Europe and other destinations. He is a member of Jericho Tennis Club and in his spare time enjoys tennis and squash as well as playing guitar.

Assistance Team
Legal Administrative Assistant

Christine Pham

Legal Administrative Assistant

[email protected] Contact by email
Expertise
Education
  • University of British Columbia, L.L.B., 1982

  • University of Alberta, B.A., 1983

Bar Admission
  • British Columbia, 1984
Languages spoken
  • English
Professional Credentials
Leadership
  • Brightside Community Homes Foundation (formerly the British Columbia Housing Foundation), Past Director (1992 – 2017)
  • Brightside Community Homes Foundation (formerly the British Columbia Housing Foundation), Past President (1999 – 2001)
  • Builders Capital Mortgage Corp., Director and Audit Committee Member (2014 – current)
  • CRH Medical Corp. (formerly Medsurge Medical), Former Corporate Secretary (2003 – 2006)
  • Maxim Power Corp. (formerly Jupiter Power), Former Corporate Secretary (1999 – 2002)
  • Richfield Ventures Corp. (formerly Oatpoint Capital Corp.), Former Director and Audit Committee Member (2006 – 2011)
Membership
  • Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch Subsections, Member: Business Law, Natural Resources, Securities
  • Canadian Bar Association, Member
  • Law Society of British Columbia, Member

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