When Georald Ingborg was really young, he already knew he wanted to be a business lawyer.
“I knew even before the end of high school,” said the fast-rising partner in the Vancouver office of leading international business law firm Fasken Martineau.
Ingborg is the firm’s top rainmaker under 40 in Vancouver, involved in some of its largest financing and merger and acquisitions deals for both Canadian and international clients.
He earned a bachelor of commerce degree at the University of British Columbia and graduated in law at the University of Victoria in 1997.
“I consider the first success of my career was getting hired on at a major downtown law firm,” said Ingborg, who spent a couple of years in Vancouver and two more in the firm’s London, U.K., office before returning here. Then he made partner at age 33.
“It had been a longtime goal, and to make it at a fairly early age comparatively was a great achievement. By being that young, when you become a partner, the expectations clearly change. So there was a fair bit of pressure.”
Ingborg said he thrives on the intensity of his corporate finance practice.
“I think better as something gets more intense and stressful.”
One major deal was advising BHP Billiton Canada on its acquisition of Athabasca Potash for $331 million.
To meet the challenges of global business, he said he makes himself available all day, every day.
“Foreign clients really appreciate knowing they can call me on my cell literally at any hour because the deals come in at very strange times and they’re very time-sensitive.”
Balancing the work demands, Ingborg is devoted to his wife and four young children, and volunteers with the CNIB and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. •
