Bryce Tingle
Positions
N. Murray Edwards Chair in Business Law
Faculty of Law
Professor
Faculty of Law
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
LLM York University, 2003
LLM Duke University, 1994
LLB University of Alberta, 1992
Biography
Bryce C. Tingle KC, LL.B, LL.M, holds the N. Murray Edwards Chair in Business Law at the University of Calgary. He is a director of several companies active in the technology and financial industries. He has also served as the general counsel of several technology and natural resource companies. From 1994 to 2006, Mr. Tingle was a co-founder and partner of TingleMerrett LLP, focused on securities and corporate finance for growth companies. He has held adjunct teaching positions with the law faculties of the University of Alberta, Brigham Young University and the University of Calgary.
Mr. Tingle has a Masters of Law from Duke, a Masters of Law (E-business) from Osgoode, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta. He has served on various public and private corporate and charitable boards, including serving as a director of Alberta Ballet. He is married to an author and has four children.
Mr. Tingle was named one of the University of Calgary's Peak Scholars in 2014 and 2015. He won the Howard Tidswell Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence in 2019. Mr. Tingle received the Queen's Counsel designation in 2020.
Mr. Tingle is a Member of the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC). He is also a Member of the National Special Advisory Group to the RCMP’s Integrated Market Enforcement Team.
Mr. Tingle previously served on the Exempt Markets Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), on the Securities Advisory Committee of the ASC, as Director of the Financial Regulation Programme of the School of Public Policy, as past Chair of the Business Law (Alberta) subsection of the Canadian Bar Association, and as a member of the Conduct Committee of the Law Society of Alberta.
Research
Areas of Research
Awards
- Howard Tidswell Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. 2019
- University Recognition for Contributions to Entrepreneurship, 2014
- Alberta Centennial Medal, 2005
Publications
- Corporations on the Couch: Is Therapeutic Disclosure a Kind of Madness?. Bryce C. Tingle. 55:3 UBC Law Review. 1 - 57 . (2022)
- Review: John McKeown, Brand Management in Canadian Law. Bryce C. Tingle. 45:2 Manitoba Law Journal . 1 - 6 . (2022)
- Expressive Voting and Irrrational Outcomes in Corporate Elections. Bryce C. Tingle. 67:1 McGill Law Journal. 71-118. (2021)
- For Whom (and for When) is the Firm Governed? The Effect of Changes in Corporate Fiduciary Duties on Tax Strategies and Earnings Management. Douglas Cummings, Bryce C. Tingle and Feng Zhan. 27:4 European Financial Management. 1 - 39 . (2021)
- Two Stories About Shareholders. Bryce C. Tingle. 58:1 Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 57-108. (2021)
- Reversing the Decline of Canadian Public Markets. Bryce C Tingle & J. Ari Pandes. 14:1 School of Public Policy Journal. 1-58. (2021)
- Review Essay: Institutional Shareholders, Short-Termism and the Odds of a Coincidence. 63:3 Canadian Business Law Journal. 389-99. (2020)
- The Equity Incentive Canadian Startups Need (Hint: It is Not Stock Options). Bryce C. Tingle. 71 UNB Law Journal. 156-84. (2020)
- “Do Corporate Fiduciary Duties Matter?”. Bryce C. Tingle. 4:4 Annals of Corporate Governance. (2019)
- "What is Corporate Governance? Can We Measure it? Can Investment Fiduciaries Rely on it?". Bryce C. Tingle. 43:2 Queen's L.J.. (2018)
- "How Good Are Our 'Best Practices' When it Comes to Executive Compensation? A Review of Forty Years of Skyrocketing Pay, Regulation & The Forces of Good Governance". Bryce C. Tingle. 80 Sask. L. Rev.. (2017)
- "What Do We Really Know About Corporate Governance? A Review of the Empirical Research Since 2000". Bryce C. Tingle. 59 Canadian Bus. L. J.. (2017)
- "Framed! The Failure of Traditional Agency Cost Explanations for Executive Pay Practices". Bryce C. Tingle. Alberta Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 4.. (2017)
- "The Agency Cost Case for Regulating Proxy Advisory Firms". Bryce C. Tingle. 49:2 UBC Law Review. (2016)
- "Economic Efficiency, Normative Account-Giving and Corporate Law". Bryce C. Tingle. 57 Canadian Business Law Journal. (2015)
- "Bad Company! The Assumptions Behind Proxy Advisors' Voting Recommendations". Bryce C. Tingle. Dalhousie Law Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2. (2015)
- "The IPO Market in Canada: What a Comparison with the United States Tells Us About a Global Problem". Tingle, Bryce C. and Pandes, J. Ari and Robinson, Michael J.. Canadian Business Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3. (2013)
- "The Strange Case of the Crown Prerogative over Private Prosecution, or Who Killed Public Interest law Enforcement?". Bryce C. Tingle. 28 UBC Law Review. (1994)
- "The Promise of our Laws". Bryce C. Tingle. 30 Alberta Law Review. (1992)
- Annotated Alberta Business Corporations Act, 2024 Edition. Bryce C. Tingle. LexisNexis Canada. 444. (2024)
- Building Alberta's Financial Sector. Jack Mintz, L. Daniel Wilson & Bryce C. Tingle. Alberta's Economic and Fiscal Future, ed. Kenneth McKenzie and Robert Mansell. 176-193. (2021)
- Start-Up and Growth Companies, A Guide to Legal and Business Practice (3rd ed.). Bryce C. Tingle. LexisNexis Canada. 464. (2018)
- "An Introduction to Canadian Start-up and Growth Businesses". Bryce C. Tingle. in Start-up and Growth Companies in Canada: A Guide to Legal and Business Practice, 2nd ed.. (2013)
In the News
- Entrepreneurs aren’t taking their companies public — and it’s a problem for our economy. The Conversation Canada. (2021)
- Terence Corcoran: Who's killing the IPO market?. The Financial Post. (2021)
- Wilks Brothers mounts Supreme Court challenge in ongoing battle with Calfrac. The Financial Post. (2021)
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