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Brent Cooper

Partner
Phone:403.225.6409Email:bcooper@mcleod-law.comOffice:Downtown
Assistant
Cherri Campbell
Phone:403.254.3842Email:ccampbell@mcleod-law.com
Every challenge has an accompanying opportunity.

Brent’s primary focus is on Business Law, which extends to:

  • Business Law Resolution or Disputes
  • Contract Law Resolution or Disputes
  • Shareholder, Partnership, Joint-Venture Resolution or Disputes
  • Collaborative Business - Dispute Resolution
  • M&A Consultations

Brent is a business lawyer with over 2,000 days in court. He is also a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Practice. Brent has combined his courtroom experience with his collaborative skills, and has developed a practice of diligently pursuing practical, ‘better-deal’ results for his clients.

Brent is the Past Chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, and he presently Chairs its Long-Range Planning Committee, which is involved in board-appointments to the Calgary Airport Authority. Brent is also advisor to various institutions in South Alberta and plans on pursuing other Board of Director appointments.

As one of McLeod Law’s two representatives to TAGLaw, a global alliance of law firms, Brent posts regularly on LinkedIn and attends conferences across North America.

Education

1987 University of Manitoba, LLB
1984 University of Manitoba, BA

Admission

2000 Alberta
1988 Manitoba

Brent has appeared in court in all four Western Canadian provinces with his experience of litigation and arbitration extending to large corporations, small or midsize entrepreneurs, accountants, lawyers, medical professionals, ranchers, oil and gas producers, parts manufacturers and service providers, agri-pharmaceutical suppliers, food packagers, school divisions, police departments, and municipal governments.

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE
  • Calgary Chamber of Commerce
  • Law Society of Alberta
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Leeds United FC Fanclub
  • Citizen of Red River Metis
  • Global Collaborative Law Council
  • The Calgary Chamber of Commerce
    • Chair Long Range Planning Committee (2022-Present)
    • Former Chair (2019-2021)
    • Vice Chair (2018-2019)
    • Board of Directors (2014-2018)
    • Chair of the Policy Directions Committee
    • Human Resources & Governance Committee (2014-2017)
  • Southern Alberta Opera Development Foundation
    • Board of Directors (2019-Present)
  • Calgary Opera
    • Board of Directors (2012-2016)
  • Cantare Children’s Choir
    • Board member
  • Spiritus Band Association
    • Former vice president
  • Ecole St. Cecilia Charitable Society
    • Former president
HOST & FACILITATOR
Executive Roundtable
Soul of the Next Economy Conference (November 2019)

MODERATOR
The interplay of the Cannabis industry and the laws between Canada and the United States
TAGLaw Western Regional Meeting (March 2019)

SPEAKER
Employment Law: What every employer needs to know
BILD Calgary Region (June 2017)

SPEAKER
Resolving and Avoiding Shareholder Disputes
McLeod Law Directors’ Circle (December 2016)

SPEAKER
Directors’ Liability and Techniques to Minimize Exposure to Risks