Shea Coulson

Shea acts as strategic counsel to a wide range of corporate and institutional clients on complex commercial, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance and litigation matters.

As Canadian lead of DLA Piper's AI group, Shea assists a wide range of businesses successfully commercialize AI in an uncertain legal landscape. He advises on technology related commercial disputes and regulatory compliance, including technology procurement, IPT services and supply agreements, supplier audit disputes, and disputes requiring digital forensics. Shea is a leading adviser in the emerging regulatory framework for artificial intelligence at the Canadian federal, provincial, and agency level. Shea regularly advises on issues involving the use of artificial intelligence in administrative decision making.  

Shea is also a leader in DLA Piper’s Chambers Band 1 rail transportation practice, and acts regularly for shippers and users of Canadian railways in arbitrations under the Canada Transportation Act and regulatory proceedings relating to rail freight rates, service issues, and rail-transportation related commercial disputes. 

Shea has been ranked as a “Litigation Star” in commercial and constitutional litigation by Benchmark Litigation and has appeared before the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Provincial Trucking Commissioner, the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch, the B.C. Securities Commission, the Insurance Council of BC, the BC Financial Services Authority, the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Shea has also conducted numerous commercial arbitrations under a variety of arbitral rules. He is often retained to take matters on appeal.