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Dawn Wattie

Corporate Commercial Barrister & Solicitor

About Me

• 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

Jurisdiction

Canada

Experience

Seniority LevelC-Suite
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Vice President, Legal
2025 - Present

Senior Legal Counsel
2024 - 2025

President / CEO / Barrister & Solicitor
1997 - 2024

General 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
2021 - Present

Chief Operating Officer / Counsel
2007 - 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
1997 - 2005

Provided 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
1989 - 1996

Major 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
1988 - 1989

Education

Degree of LawUniversity of Windsor
1985 - 1988
Degree of AnthropologyUniversity of Victoria
1980 - 1984

Certification

Total Certifications1

Law Society of British Columbia, Canadian Bar Association, ADRIC-BC (Qual.Arb)

Skills

Core skills1
Languages1

Skills

Accounting, Legal Knowledge, Business Strategies, Arbitration, Mediation, Adjudication, Intellectual Property, Commercial Laws, Labor Law, Intellectual Property

Languages

English

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