Ashley Rutherford

Paralegal

Email arutherford@ddwestllp.com

Phone

Direct: 403.541.5297

Main: 204.975.2544

Mailing Address

2300, 520 – 5 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3R7

Biography

Ashley is a paralegal with a focus on business law, corporate commercial transactions, and corporate governance documents. She has been an assistant and paralegal since 2006 and with DD West since 2009. She manages the corporate department in the Winnipeg office and operates in Alberta out of the Calgary office for many Alberta corporations and Indigenous corporate entities.

Ashley also works in the municipal law group and has experience drafting documents for by-law orders, expropriations, agreements, leases, memorandums of understanding, right-of-way/encroachment agreements, license agreements, and real property transactions. 

Preparation of Corporate Documents Relating to:

  • Alberta, Manitoba, and Federal incorporations
  • registrations, including extra provincial and business names
  • amendments to corporate structure
  • corporate and tax reorganizations
  • dividends
  • redemptions
  • amalgamations
  • dissolutions
  • revivals
  • continuances in and out of various jurisdictions in Canada
  • routine annual maintenance
  • reviewing, updating, and cleaning up corporate minute books to correct deficiencies

Commercial Law Experience Relating to:

  • drafting documents on purchase and sale of business/assets,
  • standard due diligence (obtaining, reviewing and summarizing),
  • preparing and coordinating land titles, registrations and personal property registration for various jurisdictions in Canada

Education

Legal Assistant Diploma, Herzing College – 2006

Professional Affiliations

Member, Alberta Association of Professional Paralegals