R. Christopher H. Fultz
REPRESENTATIVE PRACTICE:
- Senior
level private firm banking, technology, corporate and commercial law practices
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Vancouver, British Columbia, including serving as a
member of a large Vancouver law firm team of outside general counsel to the
Head Office of Bank of British Columbia, then a Canadian Chartered Bank, now a part
of HSBC Bank Canada.
- Financial
mandates have included, general banking contracts, paying agency agreements,
electronic banking agreements, letters of credit, and interest rate swaps.
- Commercial
mandates have included, significant commercial leases and other property
transactions, a full array of transactions involving interests in corporate
assets and shares, and the creation, structuring, organization, and
re-organization of various business and corporate entities.
- Served
as Executive Vice-President and General Counsel to DynArray Corporation, a
computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California.
- Serving
as counsel to several Canadian based IT start-up companies, which mandates
include a heavy component of information technology and intellectual property
work for suppliers of IT and IP products and services such as; the negotiation
and completion of software development and licensing agreements, hardware
placement arrangements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements,
employee/independent contractor agreements, co‑development and co-marketing
agreements, software maintenance and escrow agreements, systems integration
agreements; the protection of copyrights and trademark rights; patent matters; dealing
with various aspects of electronic and Internet commerce, such as the
structuring of Website agreements, including those which comply with applicable
consumer and privacy laws and statutory and regulatory provisions; dealing with
technology transfers and acquisitions, both by assets and shares; advising with
respect to conventional and venture capital financings; and, dealing with
significant computer system acquisitions and leases.
- Advisory
work with respect to Canadian and provincial statutes and regulations, such as
CASL, Privacy, E-Discovery, E-Commerce, and other regulatory matters.
- Counterparties
have included IBM, EMC Corporation and other large IT entities, Manitoba Hydro,
Public and Private Pension Funds, and various medium sized and smaller business
entities.
- Clients
have included, a US subsidiary of a large multinational agricultural chemical
company, the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, The Manitoba Public Insurance
Corporation, British Columbia Buildings Corporation, the Manitoba Provincial
Auditor, and various medium sized and smaller business entities.
- Administrative
law counsel to certain Residential School Survivors with respect to their
claims under the IAP Program of the Government of Canada.
- Advisor
to various business entities and certain institutions, including an Aboriginal
Governance Organization.
- Founding
Member and Director of the National Institutes of Health Informatics.
- Director and Officer of a number of Private Companies.
LECTURES:
EDUCATION:
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Admitted to the Bars of Manitoba and British Columbia.
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B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Manitoba.
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Winner of Several Law School Prizes and Awards.
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