Frequently Asked Questions.
Fauri Law provides advisory-led corporate counsel, supported by structured legal infrastructure for repeatable company lifecycle events.
Use this page to understand how the firm works, what types of matters it handles, how structured offerings differ from advisory work, and how intake, pricing, and engagement work.
About Fauri Law.
01.What does Fauri Law do?
Fauri Law is a boutique corporate and business law firm advising founders, startups, investors, growth companies, private businesses, and cross-border clients. The firm handles corporate formation, founder governance, shareholder matters, equity structuring, venture financing, securities exemptions and filings, commercial contracts, M&A, reorganizations, and Canada/UAE cross-border advisory.
02.Who does Fauri Law work with?
Fauri Law works with founders, startups, private companies, growth companies, venture-backed companies, investors, portfolio companies, venture funds, accelerators, startup platforms, and cross-border businesses.
03.Is Fauri Law a startup law firm?
Fauri Law works with startups, but it is not limited to startups. The firm also advises growth companies, private businesses, investors, portfolio companies, and cross-border clients on corporate, governance, financing, commercial, and strategic matters.
04.Is Fauri Law a corporate law firm?
Yes. Fauri Law is a corporate and business law firm. Its work includes formation, governance, shareholder agreements, equity, venture financing, securities matters, commercial contracts, reorganizations, M&A, and strategic corporate advisory.
05.What makes Fauri Law different?
Fauri Law combines partner-led corporate advisory work with structured legal infrastructure for repeatable lifecycle events. The firm is not a template store or legal marketplace. It uses intake-based routing to determine whether a matter fits structured support, advisory work, ongoing support, or a custom configuration.
06.Does Fauri Law provide business advice or only legal documents?
Fauri Law provides legal advice and legal documents in a corporate and commercial context. For advisory matters, the work may include legal strategy, issue spotting, transaction structuring, governance analysis, negotiation support, and risk allocation. For structured matters, documents are delivered as part of a defined legal workflow.
07.Where is Fauri Law based?
Fauri Law Professional Corporation is based in Toronto, Ontario.
How we work.
08.How does Fauri Law decide whether my matter fits structured support or advisory work?
Fauri Law uses intake, conflict review, and scope assessment. Standard repeatable matters may fit Structured Legal Systems. Complex, negotiated, securities-sensitive, tax-sensitive, cross-border, dispute-related, or transaction-grade matters are generally routed to Advisory & Transactional Work.
09.What happens after I submit intake?
Fauri Law reviews the information provided, including the company, parties involved, timing, legal need, and any red flags. The next step may be a detailed intake, consultation, scope review, engagement proposal, or advisory routing.
10.Does submitting intake create a lawyer-client relationship?
No. Submitting intake does not create a lawyer-client relationship and does not provide legal advice. Fauri Law must complete conflict review and confirm engagement terms in writing before acting.
11.Why does Fauri Law require intake before confirming scope?
Intake helps identify the right legal path, pricing model, conflicts, exclusions, and risk issues. It also helps prevent a standard-scope matter from being incorrectly treated as simple when it involves negotiation, securities, tax, cross-border, cap table, governance, or dispute complexity.
12.What is the difference between advisory work and structured legal systems?
Advisory work is bespoke, partner-led legal work for complex or strategic matters. Structured Legal Systems are lawyer-led workflows for repeatable corporate lifecycle events with defined scope, clear deliverables, and escalation rules.
13.What kind of work stays partner-led?
Matters involving negotiation, investor counsel, securities filings, tax-sensitive structuring, complex governance, M&A, shareholder disputes, cross-border issues, high-value transactions, or strategic legal decisions generally stay partner-led.
14.What if I am not sure what I need?
Use the general Start Your Matter intake. Fauri Law will review the information and route the request to the appropriate path.
Advisory & Transactional Work.
15.What is Advisory & Transactional Work?
Advisory & Transactional Work is bespoke, partner-led legal support for complex corporate, financing, governance, securities, commercial, shareholder, M&A, cross-border, and strategic matters.
16.When is advisory work the right path?
Advisory work is usually the right path when the matter involves judgment, negotiation, third-party counsel, investor comments, securities filings, disputes, tax-sensitive structuring, cross-border issues, M&A, complex governance, or transaction execution.
17.What types of financing matters does Fauri Law handle?
Fauri Law assists with SAFE financings, convertible notes, priced rounds, investor documents, financing readiness, securities exemptions, private issuer analysis, closing mechanics, and related corporate approvals where scoped.
18.Does Fauri Law handle SAFE and convertible note financings?
Yes. SAFE and convertible note matters may fit a Funding Kit pathway where standard, or Advisory & Transactional Work where investor counsel, securities filings, foreign investors, side letters, multiple closings, cap table issues, or negotiation are involved.
19.Does Fauri Law handle priced equity rounds?
Yes, priced equity rounds are generally handled as Advisory & Transactional Work. They usually require custom scope because they involve investor rights, share terms, approvals, securities analysis, diligence, closing mechanics, and negotiation.
20.Does Fauri Law assist with securities exemptions and filings?
Yes, where expressly scoped. Securities exemption analysis and filings, including private issuer and accredited investor matters or Form 45-106F1 filings, are not automatically included in structured products unless stated in the engagement.
21.Does Fauri Law review investor counsel or third-party counsel comments?
Yes, but those matters are generally advisory or transactional work. Third-party comments introduce negotiation, risk allocation, and judgment that usually fall outside standard fixed-fee structured scope.
22.Does Fauri Law help with shareholder disputes or founder disagreements?
Fauri Law may assist with corporate and governance issues related to founder or shareholder disputes, subject to conflict review and scope. Dispute-related matters are not handled as standard fixed-fee Workflow Kits.
23.How is advisory work priced?
Advisory & Transactional Work is generally priced by custom quote or hourly billing. In some cases, Fauri Law may propose phased scope, capped phases, or a defined initial review budget.
Structured Legal Systems.
24.What are Structured Legal Systems?
Structured Legal Systems are lawyer-led workflows for repeatable corporate lifecycle events. They help companies build legal infrastructure through defined scope, intake-based routing, clear deliverables, pricing labels, and escalation rules.
25.Are Structured Legal Systems templates?
No. Structured Legal Systems are not templates, self-serve forms, or downloadable documents. They are lawyer-led workflows for defined legal outcomes.
26.What is the difference between Workflow Kits, Launch, and Ongoing Counsel Support?
Launch is the incorporation and initial organization offering. Workflow Kits address defined lifecycle events such as founder governance, privacy, contracts, hiring, equity, ESOPs, and funding readiness. Ongoing Counsel Support is intake-based structured support configured around annual counsel hours, approved Workflow Kits, or both.
27.Why does Fauri Law use Workflow Kits?
Workflow Kits make repeatable lifecycle work easier to scope, price, and deliver. They also help clients understand what is included, what is excluded, and when a matter needs add-ons, consultation, or advisory support.
28.What lifecycle events do Workflow Kits cover?
Workflow Kits cover founder governance, website and privacy, commercial basics, hiring and team documents, equity structuring, ESOP setup, option grants, and funding readiness.
29.Can I request only one Workflow Kit?
Yes. A company may request a single Workflow Kit, subject to intake, conflict review, and scope confirmation.
30.What if my matter does not fit a Workflow Kit?
Fauri Law may recommend a different Workflow Kit, Ongoing Counsel Support, consultation, or Advisory & Transactional Work. Intake determines the appropriate path.
31.Are Structured Legal Systems suitable for complex matters?
Only if the complexity can be scoped and controlled. Matters involving negotiation, investor counsel, securities filings, tax, cross-border issues, disputes, M&A, or complex governance usually require advisory review.
32.What does “lawyer-led workflow” mean?
It means the process is structured, but the work is still handled through legal review and engagement terms. The workflow organizes the matter; it does not replace legal judgment.
Launch Incorporation Package.
33.What is the Launch Incorporation Package?
Launch is Fauri Law’s lawyer-led incorporation and initial organization offering. It helps establish a new corporation and its initial corporate records.
34.Is Launch just an incorporation filing?
No. Launch is not just a bare filing. It includes incorporation and initial corporate organization within standard scope.
35.What does Launch include?
Launch generally includes incorporation, corporate organization documents, by-laws and organizational resolutions, initial director and officer appointments, initial founder share issuance for standard scope, digital minute book setup, initial compliance support, onboarding, and delivery/review session.
36.Who is Launch best for?
Launch is best for founders starting a new company that needs standard incorporation and initial organization.
37.What is not included in Launch?
Launch does not include shareholders agreements, founder governance, founder vesting, restricted shares, option plans, financing documents, securities filings, tax advice, ongoing counsel support, or complex governance unless separately scoped.
38.Does Launch include a shareholders agreement?
No. A shareholders agreement is not included in Launch. Founder governance and shareholders agreement work usually belongs in the Startup Kit or Advisory & Transactional Work if complex.
39.Does Launch include founder vesting or restricted shares?
No. Founder vesting and restricted shares are not included in Launch. Those matters are usually handled through Equity Structuring or a connected founder setup review.
40.What if I need incorporation plus founder documents, IP assignment, and restricted shares?
You can indicate the connected needs in the intake. Fauri Law will review the matter as a coordinated founder setup request rather than forcing disconnected first-stage forms.
Workflow Kits.
41.What is a Workflow Kit?
A Workflow Kit is a lawyer-led execution module for a defined corporate lifecycle event. It includes defined deliverables, scope assumptions, exclusions, intake gating, and escalation rules.
42.What is the Startup Kit?
The Startup Kit addresses founder governance, ownership alignment, shareholder rules, and founder IP assignment for early-stage companies. It is not incorporation and does not automatically include vesting, restricted shares, investor rights, or complex negotiated governance.
43.What is the Website & Privacy Kit?
The Website & Privacy Kit supports website-facing legal infrastructure, such as privacy policy, website terms, and related privacy/cookie items where scoped. SaaS, AI, DPA, regulated data, complex privacy, or cross-border data issues may require separate scope.
44.What is the Commercial Basics Kit?
The Commercial Basics Kit supports a basic contracting foundation, such as NDAs, service agreements, SOW/order forms, and standard commercial terms. Negotiated customer paper, SaaS terms, DPA terms, procurement, and counterparty counsel comments usually require advisory scope.
45.What is the Build a Team Kit?
The Build a Team Kit supports employee, contractor, advisor, confidentiality, IP ownership, and restrictive covenant documentation where legally available. It does not include employment disputes, termination advice, foreign employment advice, executive compensation, or equity compensation unless separately scoped.
46.What is the Equity Structuring Kit?
The Equity Structuring Kit supports restricted shares, vesting, founder equity, early contributor equity, and related service/IP alignment. Tax, valuation, FMV, securities filings, foreign recipients, disputes, or complex vesting require additional review or advisory scope.
47.What is the ESOP Plan Setup Kit?
The ESOP Plan Setup Kit supports option plan infrastructure. Option grants, tax/valuation issues, U.S. or foreign participants, investor option pool negotiations, Carta implementation, and securities issues may require separate scope.
48.What is the Option Grant Implementation Add-on?
The Option Grant Implementation Add-on supports option grants under an existing approved option plan. It is not a substitute for creating or amending the option plan.
49.What is the Funding Kit?
The Funding Kit supports company-side SAFE, convertible note, or early financing readiness work. It is consult-first because financing may involve investor counsel, securities filings, side letters, foreign investors, cap table cleanup, or negotiation.
50.Why are some kits fixed fee and others starting-at or consult-first?
Some work is standard enough to price as fixed fee. Other work depends heavily on facts, documents, parties, tax, securities, investor involvement, timing, or negotiation. Those matters require starting-at pricing, scope review, or consultation.
Ongoing Counsel Support.
51.What is Ongoing Counsel Support?
Ongoing Counsel Support is intake-based structured support for companies that need defined annual legal capacity, approved Workflow Kits, or both. It is configured after intake and scope review.
52.Is Ongoing Counsel Support a subscription?
It is not an unlimited legal subscription. It is structured support under engagement terms, with defined scope, counsel hours, approved Workflow Kits, exclusions, and term rules.
53.Is Ongoing Counsel Support fractional general counsel coverage?
No. Ongoing Counsel Support is not unlimited fractional general counsel coverage. It provides scope-controlled support based on an approved configuration.
54.How is Ongoing Counsel Support configured?
It may include annual counsel hours only, one or more approved Workflow Kits only, several Workflow Kits, Workflow Kits plus annual counsel hours, enterprise or portfolio configuration, or advisory conversion where the matter does not fit structured support.
55.Can I choose only counsel hours?
Yes, where appropriate. Some companies may only need defined annual counsel hours without selected Workflow Kits.
56.Can I choose only Workflow Kits?
Yes. Some companies may need one or more Workflow Kits without annual counsel hours.
57.Can I combine Workflow Kits and counsel hours?
Yes. Ongoing Counsel Support may combine approved Workflow Kits and annual counsel hours, subject to intake, scope review, and engagement terms.
58.What counsel-hour allocations are available?
Ongoing Counsel Support may be configured around annual counsel-hour allocations such as 3, 6, 9, 12, or 15+ hours, depending on the approved scope and support needs.
59.Do unused counsel hours roll over?
No rollover applies unless expressly agreed in the engagement terms.
60.Can counsel hours be used for anything?
No. Counsel hours are limited to approved scope. They generally cannot be used for complex transactions, securities filings, M&A, disputes, investor counsel comments, cross-border structuring, or other advisory matters unless expressly scoped.
61.When does Ongoing Counsel Support become Advisory & Transactional Work?
If the matter involves negotiation, investor or counterparty counsel, securities filings, M&A, disputes, cross-border issues, tax-sensitive structuring, complex governance, or high-stakes transaction work, it may need to be handled separately as Advisory & Transactional Work.
Pricing & scope.
62.What does fixed fee mean?
Fixed fee means the matter fits a defined standard scope with identified deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, and revision limits. Fixed fee does not mean unlimited work.
63.What does starting-at mean?
Starting-at pricing means the stated price is a base price for a standard starting scope. Final pricing depends on intake, facts, documents, complexity, timing, parties, and risk.
64.What does consult-first mean?
Consult-first means Fauri Law must review the matter and usually speak with the client before confirming scope or pricing. Funding, Scale-level support, complex equity, ESOP, advisory, and high-risk matters often require this approach.
65.What does intake-based configuration mean?
Intake-based configuration means support is designed after Fauri Law reviews the company’s needs, stage, documents, risks, desired support level, and appropriate workflow access.
66.What does custom quote/hourly mean?
Custom quote or hourly pricing applies where the matter requires legal judgment, negotiation, strategy, evolving scope, or transaction-grade work. This is common for advisory, securities, M&A, disputes, cross-border, and complex governance matters.
67.Why can’t every matter be fixed fee?
Fixed fees work only when scope is standard and predictable. Negotiation, third-party counsel, tax issues, securities filings, disputes, cross-border issues, missing records, urgent deadlines, and evolving facts make scope harder to predict.
68.What can increase the price?
Price may increase if the matter involves add-ons, extra parties, extra documents, additional revisions, negotiation, investor or counterparty comments, missing records, cap table cleanup, securities issues, tax/valuation issues, cross-border facts, urgency, or expanded instructions.
69.Are filing fees, government fees, HST, or third-party fees included?
HST, government fees, filing fees, platform fees, registry fees, courier fees, and third-party costs are separate unless expressly stated in the engagement letter.
70.Are tax, accounting, or valuation issues included?
No, not unless expressly scoped. Fauri Law may coordinate with tax or accounting advisors where appropriate, but tax, accounting, valuation, FMV, and rollover advice are separate from standard legal product scope.
71.What happens if my matter becomes more complex after intake?
Fauri Law may recommend an add-on, revised fixed fee, starting-at scope, advisory engagement, or hourly/custom quote. Work does not expand automatically without scope confirmation.
Intake & consultations.
72.Why are there different intake forms?
Different intake forms keep the process short and relevant. A founder incorporation matter needs different screening than a financing, ESOP, commercial contract, or advisory matter.
73.Why are product-specific intakes short?
The first intake is meant to route the matter, identify conflicts, and detect scope issues. Detailed legal facts and documents are usually collected later if the matter is qualified.
74.What if I have several connected requests, such as incorporation, founder IP assignment, and restricted shares?
You can identify related needs in the intake. Fauri Law may route the matter internally as a connected founder setup review or Start Properly pathway.
75.Will I need to complete more than one form?
You may complete a short initial intake first and then a detailed matter-specific intake later. The detailed intake is used only where appropriate to confirm scope, pricing, and engagement terms.
76.What happens if my matter is urgent?
Mark the urgency in the intake. Urgent matters are subject to conflict review, availability, and scope confirmation. Submitting an urgent intake does not guarantee immediate assistance or create a lawyer-client relationship.
77.When should I book a consultation instead of completing intake?
Book a consultation if the matter is complex, negotiated, investor-facing, securities-sensitive, cross-border, disputed, urgent, or involves third-party counsel. If you are unsure, start with the general intake.
78.Can I send documents before becoming a client?
You should not send sensitive or privileged documents unless requested. Fauri Law may request limited documents before engagement only to assess scope and conflicts.
Practice areas.
79.Does Fauri Law help with incorporation?
Yes. Incorporation and initial organization are handled through the Launch Incorporation Package where the matter fits standard scope.
80.Does Fauri Law draft shareholders agreements?
Yes. Standard founder shareholders agreements may fit the Startup Kit. Complex, negotiated, investor-facing, or bespoke shareholders agreements are generally handled as Advisory & Transactional Work.
81.Does Fauri Law help with founder vesting or restricted shares?
Yes. Founder vesting and restricted shares are generally handled through Equity Structuring or a connected founder setup review.
82.Does Fauri Law set up stock option plans?
Yes. Option plan infrastructure may be handled through the ESOP Plan Setup Kit where the matter fits scope. Complex or cross-border option matters require review.
83.Does Fauri Law help with privacy policies and website terms?
Yes. Standard website privacy and terms work may fit the Website & Privacy Kit. SaaS, AI, DPA, regulated data, or complex privacy issues require separate review.
84.Does Fauri Law draft employment, contractor, or advisor agreements?
Yes. Standard employee, contractor, advisor, confidentiality, IP, and restrictive covenant documents may fit the Build a Team Kit. Disputes, termination issues, foreign workers, executive compensation, or equity compensation require separate scope.
85.Does Fauri Law help with commercial contracts?
Yes. Fauri Law assists with NDAs, service agreements, SOWs, commercial terms, customer/vendor contracts, and negotiated agreements. Standard scope may fit Commercial Basics; negotiated or complex contracts may require advisory work.
86.Does Fauri Law help with cap tables and Carta coordination?
Fauri Law may assist with cap table review, cleanup, or Carta coordination where separately scoped. These items are not automatically included in standard fixed-fee products.
87.Does Fauri Law help with corporate governance?
Yes. Fauri Law advises on board approvals, shareholder approvals, governance rights, reserved matters, director/officer issues, corporate records, and related governance questions.
88.Does Fauri Law help with corporate reorganizations?
Yes, where scoped as Advisory & Transactional Work. Reorganizations often involve tax, accounting, valuation, securities, shareholder approval, and corporate law considerations, so they are not treated as standard fixed-fee products.
Enterprise, Portfolio & Custom Support.
89.What is Enterprise, Portfolio & Custom Support?
Enterprise, Portfolio & Custom Support is configured legal infrastructure for organizations managing recurring legal needs across multiple companies, teams, stakeholders, matters, or jurisdictions.
90.Who is Enterprise or Portfolio Support for?
It is for venture funds, accelerators, startup platforms, portfolio companies, scaling companies, multi-entity groups, and Canada/UAE cross-border businesses that need coordinated legal workflows.
91.Does Fauri Law work with venture funds or accelerators?
Yes. Fauri Law may configure custom support for venture funds, accelerators, and startup platforms, including approved Workflow Kit menus, intake workflows, portfolio-level support, and advisory escalation rules.
92.Can Fauri Law support multiple portfolio companies?
Yes, subject to conflict review and custom engagement terms. Portfolio support requires defined scope, routing rules, pricing, confidentiality handling, and escalation paths.
93.Can Fauri Law configure custom intake workflows?
Yes. Enterprise and portfolio support may include custom intake, routing, approved workflow menus, CRM/matter tagging, and escalation rules.
94.Can Enterprise Support combine Workflow Kits, counsel hours, and advisory work?
Yes. A custom configuration may combine structured workflows, annual counsel capacity, advisory review, and escalation rules. The configuration is confirmed after a dedicated strategy session.
95.How is Enterprise or Portfolio Support priced?
It is custom quote. Pricing depends on matter volume, number of companies, workflow access, advisory capacity, jurisdictions, reporting needs, and scope.
Cross-border Canada/US/UAE work.
96.Does Fauri Law work on Canada/US/UAE cross-border matters?
Fauri Law advises on Canada/UAE cross-border corporate and commercial matters and may support matters involving U.S. or foreign elements where within scope. Foreign law issues may require local counsel.
97.What kinds of cross-border matters does Fauri Law support?
Cross-border support may include corporate structuring, founder/shareholder issues, investment matters, governance, commercial contracts, financing readiness, securities issues, and strategic legal coordination.
98.Does Fauri Law provide UAE law advice directly?
Fauri Law provides Canadian legal advice and Canada/UAE cross-border legal strategy within the scope of its practice. Where UAE or other foreign law advice is required, Fauri Law may coordinate with appropriate local counsel if separately scoped.
99.How does Fauri Law handle foreign law issues?
Foreign law issues are flagged during intake and scope review. Fauri Law may limit the engagement to Canadian law, coordinate with local counsel, or recommend separate foreign law advice.
100.Can cross-border matters fit fixed-fee products?
Sometimes, but cross-border facts often create complexity. Non-resident ownership, foreign recipients, foreign investors, UAE/U.S. issues, foreign law, tax, securities, or local counsel coordination may require advisory or custom scope.
Getting started.
101.What is the best way to start?
Use Start Your Matter if you are unsure which path applies. Use a product-specific intake if you are already on a product page and know the starting context.
102.Should I use the general Start Your Matter form or a product-specific intake?
Use the general form if you are unsure. Use the product-specific intake if you clicked from a relevant page, such as Launch, Startup Kit, Equity Structuring, Funding Kit, or Ongoing Counsel Support.
103.What if I clicked the wrong intake?
That is not a problem. Product-specific forms include related-need questions, and Fauri Law can route the matter internally.
104.What happens before work begins?
Fauri Law reviews conflicts, confirms scope, issues engagement terms, and confirms payment or retainer requirements. Work begins only after engagement terms are accepted.
105.Will I receive an engagement letter?
Yes. If Fauri Law can assist, an engagement letter or written engagement terms will confirm scope, pricing, assumptions, exclusions, and payment terms.
106.When do I pay?
Payment or retainer is addressed after scope confirmation and engagement terms. Fauri Law does not begin work until engagement requirements are satisfied.
107.How do I contact Fauri Law?
You can begin through Start Your Matter, Book a Consultation, or the Contact page.
Start with the right legal path.
Whether you need incorporation, founder governance, equity structuring, contracts, privacy, hiring documents, financing support, ongoing counsel, or advisory work, intake helps determine the right path.