Speakers

Dan is a partner in the firm’s Business Law group in Toronto and Vancouver and a co-lead of our Indigenous practice. Dan’s legal practice is focused on project development, environmental and impact assessments, permitting and negotiating agreements between project proponents and Indigenous communities in the mining and energy industries.

Dan has extensive experience advising domestic and international companies and Indigenous governments on the duty to consult, permitting and environmental law, sustainability strategies, and relationship- and agreement-development with Indigenous groups and project stakeholders. He is currently assisting clients to negotiate and work through Indigenous-led assessments in several Provinces and Territories. Dan is frequently called upon to help clients resolve relationship breakdowns in the natural resources space between project proponents, Indigenous governments and Provincial/Federal Governments.

Prior to joining McCarthy Tétrault, Dan held various senior roles in the environmental and sustainability departments of an international mining company, where he gained extensive experience negotiating with government and Indigenous groups in Canada and throughout the Americas.