Paul Seaman

Partner at Gowling WLG

Paul Seaman is a partner at Gowling WLG and leader of the firm’s national Indigenous Law Practice Group. Working out of the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices, Paul acts on complex constitutional, regulatory, Indigenous, environmental and other public law matters. His Indigenous law practice focuses on projects and transactions where the Crown’s duty to consult is engaged – particularly in the contexts of formal regulatory processes and government-to-government and commercial negotiations involving Indigenous communities, industry and government. He has appeared before the Canada Energy Regulator and litigated at all levels of court across Canada, including the Superior Courts and Courts of Appeal of Ontario, BC and Alberta, the Federal Courts, the Tax Court of Canada, and at the SCC in several leading constitutional cases. Paul has acted on several large-scale and high-profile resource development projects and related litigation across Canada involving mining, oil & gas pipelines, LNG, forestry, electricity generation and transmission projects. He also acts on citizenship and governance-related matters. Paul has been recognized in Chambers Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and the Legal 500 Canada and named in the Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers 2023 list.

year Call to Bar : 2011 (ON); 2014 (AB); 2015 (BC); 2017 (YT)

Phone:(604) 891-2731

fax:(604) 443-6780

email:[email protected]

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