Owen Bird is proud to announce that Geoff Bowman, Jennifer Loeb, Jean Feng and Nikta Shirazian have become shareholders effective January 1, 2024.
Geoff Bowman: Geoff was called to the bar in 2005 and joined Owen Bird in September 2023. His practice focuses on resolving construction disputes, including relating to procurement. Geoff has been involved in projects of all sizes, including major projects in excess of $1B. Geoff’s experience includes insurance defence work focused on construction-related matters and professional negligence claims in addition to a broad range of general commercial disputes.
Jennifer Loeb: Jennifer was called to the bar in 2007 and joined Owen Bird in January 2023. She maintains a diverse litigation practice and regularly advises clients on complex commercial litigation, employment, environmental, and insurance matters. She utilizes her litigation skills in a wide variety of ways to advocate for clients and achieves favourable results both inside and outside of the courtroom.
Jean Feng: Jean was called to the bar in 2014 and joined Owen Bird in September 2022. Focusing on corporate, commercial, real estate, and estate planning matters, Jean regularly advises businesses of all sizes on critical issues such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, financing, leasing, and franchising. She also works closely with business owners in business succession and estate planning to ensure the continued growth of wealth among generations. Her clients benefit from her dedicated, result-driven approach to legal issues.
Nikta Shirazian: Nikta was called to the bar in 2017 and joined Owen Bird in May 2022. She is a talented litigator who has developed extensive experience handling construction defect, contractual dispute, product liability, professional liability, and administrative law matters. She also routinely advises clients on various privacy related matters, including compliance with provincial and federal privacy legislation.
We are excited to have Geoff, Jennifer, Jean and Nikta as new partners and for their continued contributions to the ongoing success of our firm.