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At Quantum Law, we are focused on delivering high-quality legal services and cultivating long-term relationships with our clients. We take an active interest in our clients' businesses and enjoy learning the ins and outs of different industries so that we are better equipped to identify your unique risks and challenges. This allows us to provide a tailored experience -- more of what you need, less of what you don't.

 

Lawyers

Sylvia Lee

Partner through a law corporation

Sylvia Lee has an extensive background in corporate and commercial law. Her practice focuses on providing general counsel to businesses with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, tax-incented investments, outsourcings, the formation and financing of business ventures, corporate reorganizations and corporate financing transactions.

Background

Sylvia began her career in Vancouver with one of Canada’s largest national firms, McCarthy Tetrault, where she garnered extensive experience in corporate commercial, franchise and securities law. She has worked alongside the best and brightest lawyers in the country and has had valuable exposure to a wide range of transactions, including the acquisition of various resort operations and related real property by a major North American resort corporation, and the creation of an $800 million Unit Trust in conjunction with an initial public offering.

Sylvia went on to become the head in-house counsel and director of legal services for Keg Restaurants Ltd. where she was responsible for determining the Company’s legal posture and interests in North America and for ensuring business practices and policies met regulatory requirements. As an integral part of the corporate management team, she worked closely with the company’s various department directors to administer the company’s considerable franchising, leasing and restaurant development portfolios. During her time as in-house counsel, she effectively managed outside legal counsel in negotiation of leases, franchise law compliance and related issues, corporate record maintenance for over 25 corporate entities across 10 jurisdictions, protection of the Company’s legal rights with respect to intellectual property and competitive issues, legal defence relating to claims, and the provision of legal advice on various other matters.

Since that time, Sylvia has moved with her family to the Okanagan and returned to private practice. Her clients range from small tech start-ups, to syndicated lenders and income funds, to established multi-jurisdictional corporations.


Andrea Hagen

Partner through a law corporation

Andrea Hagen practices general corporate commercial law with an emphasis on corporate structuring and governance, capital raises, private and institutional lending, and transactional work such as acquisitions and financings.

Since her call to the Bar in 2011, Andrea has had the opportunity to work on a broad array of client matters. Andrea has been involved with structuring numerous corporations and partnerships, including private equity funds, flow-through limited partnerships, eligible business corporations, and professional corporations. She regularly assists clients with major transactions, ranging from acquisitions and sales of businesses to equity investments to secured loans.

Andrea also enjoys working with start-up companies and new ventures on organization, business planning, and operational issues. She has worked with clients in a variety of industries, from software companies to wineries to manufacturing businesses and is dedicated to developing her knowledge of different business models to improve her ability to provide practical, efficient solutions to her clients’ legal issues.

Background

Following the completion of her undergraduate studies at the University of Victoria, Andrea obtained an entrance scholarship and began law school at McGill University in Montreal. She later transferred and completed her law degree at the University of Victoria in 2010.

Andrea has strong research and drafting skills thanks to her experience as a research assistant at the British Columbia Law Institute and Canadian Centre for Elder Law, where she was involved in various law reform and elder law research projects. In 2010, Andrea moved to the Okanagan to complete her articles, during which time she developed an interest in corporate commercial work. Andrea initially practiced at a boutique corporate commercial firm in Kelowna prior to founding Quantum Law with Sylvia Lee in early 2012.

In 2012, Andrea moved back to the Vancouver area and continues to serve clients in both the Okanagan and Vancouver from this location.


Staff

JESSICA LEWIS

Legal Assistant

MARELY HALL

Legal Assistant

AMANDA OLTMANNS

Legal Assistant

KELLY MCCAFFREY

Legal Assistant - Accounts