Fauri Law is a Toronto-founded Canadian corporate and venture law firm advising founders, startups, investors, growth companies, private businesses, and cross-border clients. The firm handles Canadian corporate formation, founder governance, shareholder matters, equity structuring, venture financing, securities exemptions and filings, commercial contracts, M&A, reorganizations, and cross-border advisory, including U.S.-connected, Canada–U.S., and Canada–UAE matters where relevant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fauri Law Professional Corporation is based in Toronto, Ontario, with an Abu Dhabi branch (Fauri Law FZE).

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.

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.

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.

Intake helps identify the right legal path, fee 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.

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.

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.

Use the general Get Started intake. Fauri Law will review the information and route the request to the appropriate path.

Advisory & Transactional Work is bespoke, partner-led legal support for complex corporate, financing, governance, securities, commercial, shareholder, M&A, cross-border, and strategic matters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advisory & Transactional Work are usually billed on a custom quote or hourly basis. In some cases, Fauri Law may propose phased scope, capped phases, or a defined initial review budget.

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, fixed fees, and escalation rules.

No. Structured Legal Systems are not templates, self-serve forms, or downloadable documents. They are lawyer-led workflows for defined legal outcomes.

Launch is the incorporation and initial organization offering. Workflow Kits address defined lifecycle events such as founder governance, hiring, equity, ESOPs, option grants, and funding readiness. Ongoing Counsel Support is intake-based structured support configured around annual counsel hours, approved Workflow Kits, or both.

Workflow Kits make repeatable lifecycle work easier to scope, bill, and deliver. They also help clients understand what is included, what is excluded, and when a matter needs add-ons, consultation, or advisory support.

Workflow Kits cover founder governance, hiring and team documents, equity structuring, ESOP setup, option grants, and funding readiness.

Yes. A company may request a single Workflow Kit, subject to intake, conflict review, and scope confirmation.

Fauri Law may recommend a different Workflow Kit, Ongoing Counsel Support, consultation, or Advisory & Transactional Work. Intake determines the appropriate path.

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.

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 is Fauri Law’s lawyer-led incorporation and initial organization offering. It helps establish a new corporation and its initial corporate records.

No. Launch is not just a bare filing. It includes incorporation and initial corporate organization within standard scope.

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 a delivery/review session.

Launch is best for founders starting a new company that needs standard incorporation and initial organization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some work is standard enough to be billed as fixed fee. Other work depends heavily on facts, documents, parties, tax, securities, investor involvement, timing, or negotiation. Those matters require a starting-at fee, scope review, or consultation.

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.

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.

No. Ongoing Counsel Support is not unlimited fractional general counsel coverage. It provides scope-controlled support based on an approved configuration.

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.

Yes, where appropriate. Some companies may only need defined annual counsel hours without selected Workflow Kits.

Yes. Some companies may need one or more Workflow Kits without annual counsel hours.

Yes. Ongoing Counsel Support may combine approved Workflow Kits and annual counsel hours, subject to intake, scope review, and engagement terms.

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.

No rollover applies unless expressly agreed in the engagement terms.

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.

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.

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.

Starting-at fee means the stated fee is a base fee for a standard starting scope. Final fee depends on intake, facts, documents, complexity, timing, parties, and risk.

Consult-first means Fauri Law must review the matter and usually speak with the client before confirming scope or fee. Funding, Scale-level support, complex equity, ESOP, advisory, and high-risk matters often require this approach.

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.

Custom quote or hourly fee 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.

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.

Fee 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.

HST, government fees, filing fees, platform fees, registry fees, courier fees, and third-party costs are separate unless expressly stated in the engagement letter.

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.

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.

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. If you only have a question rather than a matter to start, you don’t need an intake form — use the contact form instead; use an intake (Get Started or a product-specific intake) when you’re ready to begin.

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.

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.

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, fees, and engagement terms.

For urgent matters, the fastest routes are to call an office directly — Toronto +1 (416) 915‑4233 or Abu Dhabi +971 50 5070 625 — email info@faurilaw.ca, or send a message through the contact form and note that it is urgent. You don’t need to complete a full matter intake just to flag urgency. Urgent matters are still subject to conflict review, availability, and scope confirmation, and contacting the firm does not create a lawyer-client relationship.

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.

You should not send sensitive or privileged documents unless requested. Fauri Law may request limited documents before engagement only to assess scope and conflicts.

Yes. Incorporation and initial organization are handled through the Launch Incorporation Package where the matter fits standard scope.

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.

Yes. Founder vesting and restricted shares are generally handled through Equity Structuring or a connected founder setup review.

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.

Yes. Standard website privacy and terms work may be handled within a defined scope. SaaS, AI, DPA, regulated data, or complex privacy issues require separate review.

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.

Yes. Fauri Law assists with NDAs, service agreements, SOWs, commercial terms, customer/vendor contracts, and negotiated agreements. Standard contracting work may be handled within a defined scope; negotiated or complex contracts may require advisory work.

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.

Yes. Fauri Law advises on board approvals, shareholder approvals, governance rights, reserved matters, director/officer issues, corporate records, and related governance questions.

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 is configured legal infrastructure for organizations managing recurring legal needs across multiple companies, teams, stakeholders, matters, or jurisdictions.

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.

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.

Yes, subject to conflict review and custom engagement terms. Portfolio support requires defined scope, routing rules, fees, confidentiality handling, and escalation paths.

Yes. Enterprise and portfolio support may include custom intake, routing, approved workflow menus, CRM/matter tagging, and escalation rules.

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.

It is custom quote. Fee depends on matter volume, number of companies, workflow access, advisory capacity, jurisdictions, reporting needs, and scope.

Yes. Fauri Law advises on Canadian corporate and commercial matters, Canada–U.S. cross-border work where relevant, and Canada–UAE matters, and may support matters involving other foreign elements where within scope. Foreign law issues may require local counsel.

Cross-border support may include corporate structuring, founder/shareholder issues, investment matters, governance, commercial contracts, financing readiness, securities issues, and strategic legal coordination.

Fauri Law’s Canadian legal work is handled through Fauri Law Professional Corporation in Toronto. UAE corporate and commercial work is handled through Fauri Law FZE in Abu Dhabi, within the scope of its licence. Where a matter requires specialist foreign law, tax, litigation, regulatory, or local counsel input, that support can be coordinated where separately scoped.

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.

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.

Use Get Started 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.

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.

That is not a problem. Product-specific forms include related-need questions, and Fauri Law can route the matter internally.

Fauri Law reviews conflicts, confirms scope, issues engagement terms, and confirms payment or retainer requirements. Work begins only after engagement terms are accepted.

Yes. If Fauri Law can assist, an engagement letter or written engagement terms will confirm scope, fee, assumptions, exclusions, and payment terms.

Payment or retainer is addressed after scope confirmation and engagement terms. Fauri Law does not begin work until engagement requirements are satisfied.

It depends on what you need. To ask a question before starting, use the contact form. To start a matter, use Get Started (the general intake) or a product-specific intake, or Book a Consultation for complex or negotiated matters. For urgent matters, call an office directly — Toronto +1 (416) 915‑4233 or Abu Dhabi +971 50 5070 625 — or email info@faurilaw.ca.