Kevin O’Callaghan, Partner, Fasken Martineau

Kevin O’Callaghan provides strategic advice on aboriginal, regulatory, environmental and other corporate social responsibility issues. While his extensive experience is focused throughout western and northern Canada, he also advises a number of clients around the world. If unavoidable conflicts arise during project development, Kevin appears before courts, tribunals and arbitration panels to assist resource companies (e.g. forestry, mining, and oil and gas) on challenges to licenses by local communities, non-governmental organizations and indigenous communities. Kevin was counsel for a coalition of businesses at the Supreme Court of Canada in the leading case on aboriginal consultation and accommodation (Haida Nation v. B.C.). He has also appeared as counsel for an industry at the Supreme Court of Canada on a case regarding aboriginal rights and human rights found in the Charter (R. v. Kapp).