Levine Matthew

Matthew has a BA from McGill University as well as a concurrent MA (Asia-Pacific Policy Studies) and JD from the University of British Columbia. He has also studied abroad at Peking University and the World Trade Institute. While in Switzerland he spent three months with the Geneva based International Investment Agreements group at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. At UNCTAD his main task was to help prepare a report to the G20 on trade and investment protectionism. Prior to law school he worked in Beijing and Tokyo, most notably with the Beijing bureaux of American National Public Radio, the Times (London) the South China Morning Post. He speaks Mandarin, Japanese, and passable French. Matthew enjoys reading about current affairs and international business.
Matthew is currently articling with the pre-eminent Vancouver office of Canada’s largest law firm. During articles he has assisted with a variety of international corporate finance transactions in the mining industry. This has involved properties in Asia as well as America. On the corporate side he has also been part of teams acting on behalf of a provincial utility procuring under an independent power purchasing program and a concessionaire during the bid process for a major public-private partnership infrastructure project. He has also been actively involved in assisting senior lawyers with the preparation of WTO submissions on behalf of a sovereign country. This has involved extensive legal research on various WTO agreements.