Bio
Barbara Wohl is a senior associate in Gowling WLG's Vancouver office. She has extensive experience in corporate commercial law, working with both domestic and international clients on multi-jurisdictional secured finance and business merger transactions and complex corporate reorganizations involving entities including limited partnerships, unlimited liability companies and trusts.
Barbara has worked with numerous organizations from the startup stage and beyond, helping to structure unique project specific arrangements. Her background includes working with a large international law firm where she first cultivated her interest in multi-jurisdictional transaction work. She regularly advises Canadian and foreign-based companies on their Canadian business operations and governance issues.
Barbara has donated her time to a number of important causes, including raising funds for heart and stroke research, participating in a number of not-for-profit organizations, determining the eligibility of participants in a federally funded program for business entrepreneurs, and teaching business law basics to entrepreneurs.
Barbara enjoys learning about other cultures and in keeping with that, she has a passion for travel. She has travelled extensively including throughout Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, South America and Africa - at times incorporating both formal and informal work exchange programs with foreign lawyers while travelling abroad.