John Willey

John has practiced with Chown Cairns LLP since 1983.  

John’s Real Estate and Property Law experience includes:

• Residential, commercial, agricultural, recreational and public property transactions
• Leasing, Licensing
• Non-resident transactions
• Estate transactions
• Land severances
• Municipal land use development
• Receivership/bankruptcy transactions
• Mortgages

John’s Wills & Estates experience includes:

• Will and trust drafting; Trusts for Special Needs Beneficiaries
• Estate planning
• Application of real property and corporate law to lifetime and testamentary asset use and transfers, and estate administration
• Estate dispute resolution

John’s Corporate/Commercial & Business Law experience includes:

• Business purchases and sales
• Asset and share transactions
• Incorporation and representation of businesses and not-for-profit corporations
• Banking
• Secured transactions
• Negotiating and drafting contracts for services, sales, distribution, and agency
• Licenses and Franchises

Professional Activities, Organizations, and Awards

Guest lecturer, seminar leader at public, private and university forums
Experience as Director on boards of private not-for-profit and for-profit corporations