Mel Beaton was one of the founding partners of Hammerberg Lawyers LLP in 1999. Today, he acts as co-manager of the firm and leads the Business Law and Real Estate departments. He has practiced law for more than 25 years. Mel has acted as lead counsel in some of the province’s largest valued real estate transactions. He typically handles business acquisitions and dispositions of varying sizes along with corporate re-organizations, commercial transactions and agreements including technology and licensing agreements. Mel’s clients frequently require his expertise on their real estate developments, sub-divisions, land acquisitions, commercial and construction projects, purchase, sale, finance and lease transactions. He is also called upon for single and multi-phase strata plan developments, bylaw issues, and fundamental changes, such as amalgamations, winding-up procedures and changes to common property and strata plans. more... See more text