Dana is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted to practice in Alberta and Saskatchewan, working in the firm’s intellectual property/technology and corporate practice groups. She combines practical Canadian legal experience with advanced U.S. legal education, bringing clients a distinctive perspective on intellectual property, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and corporate law. Dana has represented organizations ranging from large multinational corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises and early-stage startups, tailoring her approach to the scale, sophistication, and growth stage of each business.

She began her legal career at an international law firm in Calgary, Alberta, where she maintained a practice in the intellectual property and capital markets groups. Her intellectual property experience includes strategy and advisory work, trademark searching, drafting, and prosecution, patent strategy and prior art/patentability searching, copyright and chain-of-title matters, trade secret protection, and intellectual property due diligence and clearance searches, alongside strategic advice on domain name disputes, trademark oppositions, and infringement matters. Dana regularly advises technology and AI-driven businesses on IP portfolio strategy and commercialization and licensing agreements.

In her corporate and commercial practice, Dana gained experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and securities transactions, encompassing both public and private M&A deals as well as equity and debt offerings. Dana has also assisted clients with continuous disclosure requirements, corporate governance matters, agreement drafting, and general corporate legal services. This hands-on commercial work includes the drafting and negotiation of vendor, licensing, service, and infrastructure agreements. Dana also advises clients on technology law matters, including privacy compliance, data governance, and the legal considerations surrounding software, AI, and technology-based businesses.

Dana also maintains an active academic publishing practice, with work spanning social media law, artificial intelligence, and cross-border technology and intellectual property issues, including published articles and conference presentations in these areas.

Prior to joining the firm in 2025, Dana earned her Master of Laws in Technology Law and Policy from Georgetown University, where she was a Merit Scholar and awarded the Moxon Scholarship for Graduate Studies for academic excellence. Dana also holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Saskatchewan, where she competed on the women’s varsity softball team.

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

• A major energy company on its $2.55 billion acquisition and related $500 million public offering of common shares.
• A pipeline company on its $7.15 billion refinancing through one of Canada’s largest corporate bond offering of First Lien Senior Secured Notes.
• A telecommunications company on its $1.8 billion three-tranche senior unsecured note offering, including sustainability-linked notes tied to greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
• An international technology company on IP strategy and portfolio planning, including trademark, patent, copyright, and trade secret considerations, as well as cross-border data transfer.
• A rural telecommunications and fibre infrastructure provider on the negotiation and drafting of a multi-year agreement to expand fibre optic services, addressing equipment ownership, revenue-sharing mechanics, and early termination provisions.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

•  Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
• Law Society of Saskatchewan
• Law Society of Alberta
• Canadian Bar Association

BAR ADMISSIONS & EDUCATION

• Saskatchewan Bar
• Alberta Bar
• Master of Laws in Technology Law and Policy (with Distinction), Georgetown University, Washington, DC
• Juris Doctor (with Distinction), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (with Great Distinction), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
• Strategic Space Law Certificate, McGill University, Montreal, QB

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Publications

• “Honey, I Blew Up the World! Artificial Intelligence, Principle-Based Regulation, and the Luddite Legacy,” 29 Gonzaga Journal of International Law 1 (2025)
• “Free Expression v. Safe Space: Bill C-63’s Balancing Act for a Band-Aid Solution?,” 48 Houston Journal of International Law 1 (2026)
• “Houston, Do We Have a Problem? Secondary Patents for Next Generation Pharmaceuticals,” 64 San Diego Law Review 1 (2026) (forthcoming)
• “Celestial Ceiling or Humanitarian Abyss? Complexities of Applying International Humanitarian Law to Outer Space,” 34 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (2026)

Presentations

• San Diego Law Review Symposium: American Trade at the Border (2026)
• Gonzaga Journal of International Law Symposium: AI Governance Within Emerging Global Economic Frameworks (2025)
• Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy: Global Perspectives on AI and the Law (2025)
• United Nations Conference: Breaking Barriers: Gender Equality in Educational Access (2016)

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

• Merit Scholarship, Georgetown University (2024)
• Moxon Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Law, University of Saskatchewan (2024)
• Alfons H. Boving Prize in International Trade Law, University of Saskatchewan (2022)
• Dean’s Forum Choice Award, University of Saskatchewan (2022)
• Eldon Wooliams Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan (2021)
• Undergraduate Dean’s List, University of Saskatchewan (2018-2020)
• SaskEnergy Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan (2018)
• Wolfe Family General Achievement Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan (2017)