Fauri Law is a boutique corporate and venture law firm in Toronto, advising founders, investors, family offices, and companies on the corporate, financing, governance, and transactional work that matters most.
What makes the firm distinctive is its reach. Fauri Law is licensed in both Canada (Fauri Law Professional Corporation, Toronto, since 2020) and the UAE (Fauri Law FZE, Abu Dhabi, since 2025), and its principal brings more than a decade of General Counsel experience inside sovereign-adjacent institutions across Canada the UAE. For clients whose work touches both markets — or who value counsel with genuine institutional depth — that combination is rare.
The Principal
Led by a lawyer who has been inside the institutions, not only advising them.
Khaled El Fauri is a dual-qualified corporate lawyer who spent more than a decade as General Counsel to UAE sovereign-adjacent industrial, financial, and aerospace groups, and held senior counsel roles at a Canadian public company and a Government of Ontario infrastructure agency in Toronto, before building Fauri Law into a firm in both Canada and the UAE.
That background defines how the firm works. Khaled advises founders, investors, family offices, and growth companies on the corporate, financing, governance, and transactional matters— bringing senior judgment, dual-system fluency, and an insider’s understanding of how institutions, capital, and regulated industries actually operate.
In Canada:
- Senior legal counsel at a publicly listed telecommunications company through a C$20B proposed merger.
- Counsel to a Government of Ontario infrastructure agency — legal counsel on GO Rail expansion and P3 programs (US$60B+), and representing the Government in negotiating master development agreements for major mixed-use, transit-integrated real estate projects across Toronto (Transit-Oriented Communities).
In the UAE — more than a decade as General Counsel:
- Group General Counsel to the industrial division of a diversified Abu Dhabi conglomerate — the majority shareholder of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank — across 18 companies in the UAE, Jordan, KSA, Egypt, and Algeria, with cross-border M&A exceeding US$500M.
- General Counsel, MENA, for a state-owned naval and defense group — a US$5.6B national program and GCC government contracting.
- General Counsel to a sovereign-adjacent aerospace cluster — a €230M acquisition and restructuring, securing €100M+ in intellectual property.
The combination — institutional depth and public-company and government-scale experience — is what gives the firm its distinctive reach.
What We Do
Senior counsel across the corporate lifecycle.
The firm’s practice covers the core legal needs that define how a company is formed, governed, financed, and transacted — in Canada, the UAE, and across both.
- Corporate advisory & governance — structuring, reorganisations, board and shareholder matters, and ownership changes. → Build Governance.
- Shareholder & founder agreements — the instruments that govern the relationship between owners. → Shareholder Agreements· Founders Agreement.
- Ownership & equity structuring — share classes, vesting, option and incentive plans, and cap-table design. → Structure Ownership & Equity.
- Venture financing & investment — SAFEs, convertibles, priced rounds, investor documents, and financing readiness. → Raise Capital.
- Mergers & acquisitions — acquisitions, investments, restructurings, diligence, and closing support. → Mergers & Acquisitions.
- Commercial contracts — customer, vendor, SaaS, technology, licensing, and strategic commercial agreements. → Commercial.
- IP & technology — IP ownership, assignment, and the contractual infrastructure that protects it. → IP & Technology.
- Corporate transactions & advisory — the bespoke, negotiated, and complex matters that need senior judgment above a structured workflow. → Corporate Transactions & Advisory
How We Deliver
Advisory judgment, with structured systems behind it.
The firm delivers legal work through two complementary models, matched to the nature of the work:
Bespoke Advisory & Transactions — partner-led counsel for matters that require judgment, negotiation, and strategy: complex transactions, M&A, investor negotiations, governance disputes, and cross-border structuring. This is the firm’s primary mode.
Structured Legal Systems — defined, fixed-scope legal workflows (Workflow Kits) and ongoing support configurations for the repeatable, well-defined steps a company needs as it forms, governs, raises, and grows. These exist so that standard work is handled efficiently and predictably — leaving senior judgment focused where it matters.
For venture funds, accelerators, and startup platforms with cohorts or portfolios, the firm offers Enterprise, Portfolio & Custom Support — configured legal infrastructure at scale.
→ How We Deliver
→ Structured Legal Systems
→ Fees & Engagement
Who We Work With
From founders to institutions — on both sides.
- Founders & growth companies — from formation through financing and governance, in Canada, the UAE, and across both.
- Investors, funds & family offices — venture and growth investments, structuring, diligence, and portfolio support.
- Corporates & multinationals — market entry, subsidiaries, governance, and cross-border transactions.
- Platforms, accelerators & venture studios — approved legal pathways, intake, and configured support across cohorts.
- Relocating & cross-border clients — those moving capital, companies, or operations between Canada and the UAE.
- Institutions & regulated groups — governance, commercial, and transaction support informed by years inside institutional and regulated environments.
Representative Experience
A track record in complex, cross-border transactions.
Since 2020, Fauri Law has advised founders, investors, and institutions on cross-border corporate and financing transactions across Canada and the United States, including Delaware and Canada–U.S. structuring. Representative matters include:
- Equity financings — an aggregate of CAD $12M+ across multiple transactions.
- Convertible instruments — CAD $9M+ in convertible notes and SAFEs.
- Capital restructuring & reorganisation — a CAD $7M+ corporate reorganisation for a Canadian technology company, involving a multi-class share redesign and a tax-deferred share-for-share exchange across ten shareholders
These sit alongside the principal’s institutional mandates — billion-dollar transactions, disputes, and restructurings across the UAE and the region.
Where We Are
Toronto and Abu Dhabi
Canada Office
Fauri Law Professional Corporation
First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, 57th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1C7, Canada
Phone: +1 (416) 915-4233
UAE Office
Fauri Law FZE
D1 Building, Office 801
Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Licensed since 2025 · Licence No. 4425587.01
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Senior counsel for what matters most.
For a UAE matter, a Canadian corporate or venture matter, or work that crosses both — Fauri Law can help determine the right path.
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