• Experienced Senior Legal Counsel and General Counsel for public and private sector organizations
• Qualified Arbitrator, Mediator and Adjudicator
• Practicing areas: intellectual property, corporate commercial law, and labour & employment law with a focus on enhancement & exploitation of intellectual property, professional managed services (including SaaS) corporate governance & structuring, corporate commercial transactions, and labour relations & privacy matters
• Significant international contract experience
• Able to address dynamic challenges to achieve organizational goals
Headline
Corporate Commercial Barrister & Solicitor
Experience
Vice President, Legal
Coenda Investments Holding Corp.May 2025 - Current
Senior Legal Counsel
Pattison Food Group Ltd.December 2024 - April 2025
President / CEO / Barrister & Solicitor
Dawn Wattie Law CorporationJanuary 1997 - November 2024General Counsel, Arbitrator, Corporate Solicitor, and Corporate Secretary for various public and private companies including EPC, Mining, Public Life Sciences, Public Engineered Woods Products, and the University of Victoria's Innovation & Development Corporation. Services included:
• Intellectual property with focus on enhancement and protection of intellectual property, technology rights, internet law, privacy, and licensing
• Corporate commercial law with a focus on mergers & acquisitions, financing, corporate commercial agreements, and corporate governance, privacy
• Labour and employment law with focus on labour relations and human rights law including collective bargaining, labour arbitration, human rights and other administrative tribunal hearings for not - for - profit organizations and Aboriginal groups
Panel Adjudicator
Vancouver International Arbitration Centre for Domestic and UMP Panels.April 2021 - Current
Chief Operating Officer / Counsel
Stage 3 Media Inc.April 2007 - March 2008• Reporting to the Board of Directors with operational and financial responsibility for all operations of business
• Planned, developed, and implemented strategies for the television & multi - format world wide distribution of flagship production "Sanctuary"
• Negotiated broadcast license and distribution agreements worldwide and for production financing
• Managed twenty - five (25) employees
President / CEO
DL Consulting Ltd.January 1997 - September 2005Provided management consulting to various public and private sector organizations, focusing on:
• Planning, development, implementation & strategic management of intellectual property
• Strategic and business planning
• Human resources, labour relations, organizational restructuring and change management
Coordinator, Special Projects / Staff Representative
BCGEUOctober 1989 - October 1996Major Consulting projects during this time include:
Public Sector
• Ministry – Contracted Social Services Sector Project
• Forest BC – Reorganization & Performance Management Project
• BC – Reorganization & Performance Management Project Private Sector
• Columbia – Strategic Planning Session & Strategy Development
• Nature – Strategic Planning & Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• Reliable Ltd. – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• Nature's – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• Vic - Tech – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
• – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
Articling Student
Clark Wilson LLPMay 1988 - May 1989
Professional Membership / Certification
Law Society of British Columbia, Canadian Bar Association, ADRIC-BC (Qual.Arb)
Your Skills
Accounting, Legal Knowledge, Business Strategies, Arbitration, Mediation, Adjudication, Intellectual Property, Commercial Laws, Labor Law, Intellectual Property
Professional Interests
Conflict ResolutionCommercialization of IPCoaching and MentoringAssisting Businesses to GrowLegal Design of Dispute ResolutionWorking with young entrepreneursInnovative business technologySustainable, climate change businesses
