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CCCA_V2No4_Profiles-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No1_Profile-FIN.qxd 11/24/08 3:00 PM Page 48 Profile Terry Badour Terence P. Badour — or Terry, as he’s known to colleagues — would be in the wrong job if he didn’t thrive on variety and constant challenge. A s executive vice-president,law and administra- in private practice, he then joined the law department of there in private practice with Ogilvy Renault after graduating tion at Fairmont Raffles Hotels International from the University of Ottawa with an LL.L and an LL.B. He eventually moved to Lavery de Billy.After a total of five years (FRHI), Terry Badour oversees an array of functions,including corporate services,corpo- rate communications, and compensation and benefits. He spends his days managing the myriad legal and Canadian Pacific Ltd., eventually relocating to Calgary when the company moved its head office there in 1996. administrative issues related to ensuring that people’s business Just two years later, he moved to Toronto to become vice- decisions are in line with the company’s strategic plan. president, general counsel and corporate secretary with CP “It’s a mixed bag for a lawyer, but we’re a small company, a Hotels, as the company was then known. (After a reorganiza- small group, and a small executive group, and we provide all tion, the company changed its name to Fairmont Hotels & functions between us,” says Badour. “One way to describe Resorts in 2001 when it went public, and then to Fairmont ‘administration’ is that if it doesn’t fit into anybody else’s port- Raffles Hotels International after being taken private in 2006.) folio, I inherit it.” It seems he hasn’t looked back.“I love being in-house,” he Born and raised in Montréal, Badour launched his career says,“working with the business people shoulder-to-shoulder 48 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association WINTER 2008