Mike Tourigny *

Partner


Vancouver

Tel : 604.691.7442
Fax : 604.893.2375

Email : mike.tourigny@mcmillan.ca
* Law Corporation
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Professional Activities

Mike Tourigny has been a partner in the firm's Vancouver office since 1985 and from 1994 - 2000, was the Managing Partner.

Mike has substantial corporate and commercial litigation and alternate dispute resolution expertise.  His specialties include complex commercial disputes, products liability litigation, securities and corporate governance disputes, environmental issues including defence in environmental prosecutions, mining, forestry, transportation and construction litigation.  He has extensive trial court, appeal court, and commercial private arbitration experience.

Special Recognition

  • Received a "BV" Peer Review Ranking from Martindale-Hubbell.

Memberships

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • British Columbia Bar Association
  • Vancouver Bar Association
  • Forest Alliance of British Columbia
Representative Transactions

  • Counsel in numerous complex contract, tort and regulatory claims in a commercial context.
  • Counsel for aircraft parts manufacturers in multi-jurisdictional products liability litigation.
  • Counsel for shippers in heavy industry in complex commercial disputes with rail and seagoing carriers. 
  • Counsel for provincially and federally incorporated companies in numerous disputes involving public company takeover battles, contested arrangement proceedings, corporate governance disputes, proxy battles, oppression claims, and related litigation.
  • Counsel for forestry and mining and real property owning clients operating in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada when faced with site contamination issues and when charged under various environmental or other regulatory legislation.

publications and presentations

  • The Construction Dispute
  • General Contractors Perspective
  • Insight Press Waste Management Act and the Mining Industry
  • CLE Publications Environmental Liability Issues in British Columbia
  • Client Seminars



  • business law
    • charities & not for profit
    • communications
    • corporate
    • corporate governance
    • environmental
    • first nations & aboriginal
    • information technology
    • mergers & acquisitions
    • private equity & venture capital
  • China
    • 中国业务
  • intellectual property;
    • confidential information & trade secrets
    • copyright
    • information technology
    • IP agreements & licensing
    • IP due diligence
    • IP litigation
    • patents & industrial designs
    • trademarks & domain names
  • international trade
    • cross-border
    • international trade law
    • international trade policy
  • litigation
    • administrative law & tribunals
    • alternative dispute resolution
    • class actions
    • commercial litigation
    • defamation
    • environmental litigation
    • foreclosure & mortgage enforcement
    • insurance & personal injury litigation
    • intellectual property litigation
    • securities litigation & regulatory proceedings
  • mergers & acquisitions
  • real estate
    • commercial real estate
    • leasing
    • title insurance
  • construction
  • family owned businesses
    • estate planning
  • forestry / paper products
  • health care & life sciences
    • biotechnology / medical technology
    • health care
    • pharmaceutical
  • internet & information technology
    • outsourcing
  • manufacturing
  • mining / natural resources
  • real estate
Called to the British Columbia bar - 1979

University of British Columbia, LLB - 1978