2008 - Harris is a senior partner at the law firm of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, one of Canada’s most-respected law firms. His practice is largely transaction oriented, representing entrepreneurs, private and public companies, investment banks and merchant banks in a variety of merger and acquisition transactions, capital markets equity and debt offerings and management and leveraged buyouts and buy-ins.

He also oversees the firm’s practice in the area of private investment funds, advising Canadian and international fund sponsors as well as institutional investors on fund formations and their investments in a wide range of buyout fund and venture capital funds.

As a close advisor to Robert Wetenhall, Harris was a key participant in Wetenhall’s acquisition of the Montreal Alouettes football franchise. Harris is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alouettes, serving as its president from December 2001 to February 2002, and is one of its representatives to the Board of Governors of the Canadian Football League. Harris continues to be actively involved in the club’s affairs.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (CAPREIT), a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed REIT and is also member of its Governance and Compensation Committee.

Harris attended McGill University where he received his Bachelor of commerce degree in 1972, his Bachelor of civil law and his Bachelor of laws in 1976 and 1977, respectively.