Modern legal advice for modern Canadian businesses.

• Advised Canadian and US businesses on expanding across Canada, organizing new corporations throughout the country.

• Drafted the licensing and outsourcing agreement between two manufacturing companies, orchestrating an innovative product development project.

• Counselled a leading technology company on a cross-border joint venture project, advising on the terms of the JV and associated licensing issues

• Counselled a Canadian software business on an 8-figure acquisition by a US organization.

• Acted for Canadian clients in various private M&A deals, including the sale of an international hospitality business and a multimillion-dollar investment in a Canadian manufacturing company.

• Helped Canadian retail and service businesses expand, divest and raise capital.

• Helped a leading telecommunications company develop and negotiate software licenses, master service agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.

• Counselled a wireless technology company on its licensing strategy and relationship with open-source code repositories.

• Advised a leading North American food company on their outsourcing, product regulatory, and service agreement issues.

• Counselled global companies (and other publicly-listed businesses) on trademark strategy, helping to build new products, launch holiday campaigns, and rebrand international organizations.

• Acted on behalf of a multibillion-dollar software company in a successful copyright dispute, protecting the client’s website code.

• Helped a restaurant franchise secure its namesake as a trademark, overcoming trademark challenges launched by a competitor.

• Developed the privacy policy for an innovative payments company, helping it comply with PIPEDA, the GDPR, and the CCPA.

• Developed a publicly traded fashion company’s privacy and electronic marketing framework.

• Successfully counselled a multi-million-dollar organization on its response to a ransomware attack.

• Counselled several innovative fintech start-ups on their data protection & privacy initiatives, advising on global data protection and privacy obligations.