Fauri Law is a corporate and commercial law firm with offices in Toronto and Abu Dhabi. It incorporates companies, drafts the agreements between founders, shareholders and the people they hire, structures equity and option plans, advises on and closes financings, and advises established companies and institutions on governance, contracts, reorganizations, acquisitions and the sale of a business. Where a step is standard, the firm offers it at a fixed fee through the Workflow Kits; the rest is advisory and transactional work. The practice is corporate and commercial; the firm does not appear before the courts.

Founders and startups in Ontario; established Ontario companies with revenue, staff and shareholders; professional practices such as accounting firms, consultancies and agencies; institutions and regulated companies in Canada and the UAE; accelerators, incubators and university programs; funds, studios and groups with several companies; and Canadians with business on the US or UAE side of a border. The Who We Serve pages open on each of those situations rather than on a list of services.

It is a startup firm and an established-company firm at the same time. The Workflow Kits exist because early-stage work repeats and can be priced; the advisory practice exists because a company at five million in revenue, with a bank, a landlord and three shareholders, has questions no kit answers. Most clients arrive as founders and stay as the company grows; the established companies page describes the second half of that relationship.

Yes. The practice is corporate and commercial: incorporation and organization, shareholders’ agreements and governance, equity and option plans, venture financing and securities exemptions, commercial contracts, reorganizations, and mergers and acquisitions. Employment documents are drafted for the company as employer. Litigation, family law, immigration and tax filings are outside the practice; where a matter needs them, the firm brings in or refers to the right counsel.

Three things. Senior counsel on every matter: the lawyer who advises at the outset remains on the file. Experience formed in-house: the firm’s founder served for a decade as General Counsel inside aerospace, defence and industrial groups, so the advice is prepared for the decision to be made. And offices in Toronto and Abu Dhabi, so that a matter with a Canadian side and a UAE side is handled by one firm. Where a step is standard, it is offered at a fixed fee, so the cost is known before the first call.

In Toronto, at First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, 57th Floor, in the financial district, and in Abu Dhabi at the D1 Building, Office 701, Al Raha Beach. The firm works across both offices; meetings are in person or by video, and documents are signed electronically. See the Toronto and Abu Dhabi pages.

The practice is non-contentious: corporate, commercial, governance, financing and transactional work. Where a matter turns into a dispute — a shareholder deadlock that will not settle, a claim under a contract — the firm advises on the corporate side, prepares the record, and brings in litigation counsel in Ontario or the UAE for the court process, staying involved so that the business decisions and the legal ones are made together.

With incorporation, and with the founders’ agreement if there is more than one of you. The firm advises on the jurisdiction and the share structure, incorporates and organizes the company, and settles the founders’ agreement, vesting and the assignment of founder IP while the founders agree. A standard incorporation is available at a fixed fee through Launch and a standard founders’ package through the Startup Kit. The founders and startups page describes the work of a company’s first years, from formation to the first financing.

The corporate decisions of a growing business: shareholder agreements and changes in the ownership group, governance and the records a financing or a sale will test, the reorganization or holding company the accountant has recommended, financing and the bank’s security, acquisitions and the sale of the business, the contracts the business runs on, equity for key employees, and shareholder disputes resolved without stopping the company. The work is advisory, scoped after a consultation, or Ongoing Counsel Support where the questions recur. The established companies page describes it.

Yes, for the corporate side of the practice itself: incorporating or restructuring the professional corporation or the partnership, bringing partners in and out, the engagement terms and privacy documents the practice runs on, and buying, selling or handing the practice on, under Ontario and federal law. The regulator’s conditions for a professional corporation are confirmed before anything is filed. The professional advisors page describes it.

You engage the firm directly, on the firm’s own engagement letter, and the fee is the same whether you arrived through an introduction or a search. With your consent the firm keeps your accountant or other advisor in the loop, since a reorganization, a share issuance or a sale usually needs their input at the same time. The firm does not pay referral fees and does not share fees with anyone outside the firm.

Yes, as an extension of an in-house legal team. The firm’s founder served for a decade as General Counsel inside aerospace, defence and industrial groups, and the work is the kind a general counsel hands to outside counsel: regulatory and trade-control structuring, acquisitions and group reorganizations, joint ventures, program and OEM contracts, governance, and standing capacity for a subsidiary or venture without a lawyer of its own. The institutions and regulated industries page sets it out.

Yes. The firm advises the founders in a cohort from incorporation to first financing, and the program receives a legal-foundations session, office hours and a defined intake route at no cost. Founders who engage the firm do so directly, at a fixed fee where the step is standard and as advisory work otherwise; some programs fund legal work for their cohort, and either way each founder’s company is the client on its own engagement letter. The programs and accelerators page describes the arrangement.

Yes, through Enterprise, Portfolio & Custom Support: one configured relationship for a fund, studio, program, family office or group, with an approved kit menu, counsel capacity, routing rules and a conflict protocol set out after a strategy session. Each portfolio company is engaged on its own terms; the configuration is what makes the portfolio consistent. Section K below covers the detail.

The firm advises on the structure and handles the Canadian side; where a structure requires US law, US counsel handles that part. The usual matters are incorporating the Canadian company for a founder living in the United States, a US parent above a Canadian company, holding companies on both sides of the border for a family or owner-managed group, whether the Canadian company remains a Canadian-controlled private corporation, and financing from US investors. The Canada–US page describes the practice.

The same firm, on both sides. Fauri Law practises from Toronto and Abu Dhabi, with counsel trained in common law and in civil law, so a Canadian holding shares in a free-zone company, offered equity under a UAE-law shareholders’ agreement, forming a venture with a UAE partner, or moving a company or capital between the two countries deals with one firm rather than two. The Canada–UAE page sets out the matters and the position of the Canada–UAE investment and trade agreements.

The intake and the consultation do it. A kit fits when the facts are standard: founders who agree, one recipient of equity, investors relying on an exemption the kit is built for. Advisory work is right when the matter turns on negotiation, a counterparty’s counsel, a valuation or tax position, a dispute, a priced round, M&A or a party abroad. The firm says which before anything is signed, and a matter that outgrows a kit moves to advisory work by the same firm with what the kit did carried over.

The firm reads it, runs a conflict check, and comes back with one of three things: confirmation that the matter fits the kit, with an engagement letter stating the fee; a short call to settle a point the intake raised; or a recommendation for a different route — another kit, Ongoing Counsel Support, or advisory work with a quote for the first phase.

The relationship begins when the engagement letter is signed and the conflict check is clear; until then the firm is assessing fit, not advising. That is why the intake asks for the parties’ names — to run the check — and why nothing sent through it should be treated as legal advice. Once the letter is signed, everything you have provided is covered by the engagement.

Because the fee depends on the facts. A fixed fee is only honest if the matter is the standard case it prices, and the intake is how the firm confirms that before promising it. It also surfaces conflicts, identifies the parties, and catches the things that make a matter larger than it looks — a founder with counsel, an investor abroad, shares already promised — so that the engagement letter states the real scope.

That the lawyer makes the decisions and reviews the documents, and the process organizes the delivery. Each kit has a call with the lawyer where the choices the documents depend on are made — Ontario or federal, which share classes, who vests and how — and then the team prepares the documents to the firm’s forms under the lawyer’s review. It is the opposite of a template: the forms make the fee predictable; the lawyer makes the documents right for your company.

Book a consultation and describe the situation in a paragraph. It costs nothing, and the answer is usually one kit, a sequence of two, or a first phase of advisory work with a budget. The Who We Serve pages are the other way in: each opens on a situation — starting, running, advising, crossing a border — and says what the firm does for it.

The firm’s lawyer-led incorporation, for a fixed fee of CAD $1,595: an Ontario corporation under the OBCA or a federal corporation under the CBCA, with articles filed, by-laws and organizational resolutions passed, directors and officers appointed, founder shares issued, the registers built and a digital minute book delivered — within five business days of a complete intake. The Launch page has the full scope.

Both give you a Canadian corporation with limited liability. An Ontario corporation has had no director-residency requirement since 2021, files its annual return at no charge, and protects its name in Ontario only. A federal corporation has its name reviewed and protected across Canada, needs at least a quarter of its directors to be resident Canadians (or one, where there are fewer than four), and registers in Ontario as well. Most Ontario businesses incorporate provincially; federal is the better choice when the name matters nationally or the company will operate in several provinces from the start. The choice is made on the onboarding call, and either is inside the fee.

The name search where the corporation will have a name; the articles, drafted and filed; by-laws and the organizational resolutions; director and officer appointments; founder shares subscribed for and issued, for up to three shareholders; the securities, directors’ and officers’ registers and the register of individuals with significant control; the initial government filings; a digital minute book kept for the first year; two calls with the lawyer; and a delivery session that walks through the book and names the next step.

Within five business days of a complete intake, for either jurisdiction. The Ontario registry issues articles immediately on filing; Corporations Canada takes about a business day, or four hours with the express service. The rest of the time is the organization — the by-laws, resolutions, share issuance and minute book — which is what makes the corporation usable rather than merely registered.

At the time of writing, Ontario charges $300 to file articles of incorporation and nothing for the annual return; Corporations Canada charges $200 for articles filed online, $300 for four-hour express service, and $12 for the annual return. A named Ontario corporation also needs a NUANS report, a small search-house charge. All are passed through at cost on top of the CAD $1,595 fee, and the firm confirms the current figures at intake.

Only if the corporation will have a name rather than a number. A named Ontario corporation needs an Ontario-biased NUANS report dated within ninety days of filing; a numbered company — 1234567 Ontario Inc. — needs none and can register a business name later. A federal application runs its own name review as part of the filing. The firm orders the search and passes the charge through at cost.

Yes, and it is settled on the onboarding call. One class of common shares is standard. Where more is needed — non-voting common for a family member or holding company, preferred shares for a fixed return or an estate freeze, special shares for a trust — the share structure add-on writes the classes into the articles from day one: two classes CAD $595, a multi-class structure CAD $795. Adding a class later takes a special resolution, articles of amendment and a government fee, so deciding at incorporation is the cheaper route.

Launch issues the founders’ shares and organizes the corporation; the agreement between the founders is the Startup Kit, and the two are built to be taken together — CAD $5,950 for both rather than CAD $6,545 apart, with the shares issued under the agreement from the first day. A single founder does not need one. Two or more usually do, and the best time to sign it is now, while everyone agrees.

Launch issues the founders’ shares outright, and the onboarding call asks whether they should instead be earned over time. Where the answer is yes — usually with two or more founders, or an investor on the horizon — the vesting is documented in the Equity Structuring Kit and the founders’ agreement in the Startup Kit, both drafted to fit the shares Launch issued. With one founder the answer is usually no.

Often, yes, on the same fee: a company incorporated online without by-laws, resolutions, share issuance or a minute book can usually be organized under Launch, provided the articles do not need amending. Where a company has been operating with missing records — shares never issued, filings overdue — the work is a corporate clean-up, scoped after a look at the records, sometimes as a fixed fee and sometimes in phases. The Launch intake is the right place to start either way.

A lawyer-led legal engagement for one defined event in a company’s life, at a published fee: a conflict check, an engagement letter, calls with the lawyer, documents drafted to the firm’s forms under the lawyer’s review, one consolidated round of revisions, and the signed documents filed in the minute book. There are six — Launch, the Startup Kit, Build a Team, Equity Structuring, ESOP Plan Setup and the Funding Kit — on the Workflow Kits page.

Each kit is drafted for your company by the firm, after a call with the lawyer in which the decisions the documents depend on are made. The firm’s standard forms are what make the fee fixed; the lawyer’s decisions are what make the documents right. There is no self-serve checkout and nothing to download and fill in yourself.

The founders’ agreement, while you still agree: a shareholders’ agreement for up to three founders — reserved matters, deadlock, right of first refusal, tag-along and drag-along, and what happens when a founder leaves — with founder IP assignment and the share issuance, for a fixed fee of CAD $4,950, or CAD $5,950 together with Launch. The firm acts for the company, and each founder is told in writing that they may take independent advice. A fourth or fifth founder is quoted at intake; an agreement that has to be negotiated is advisory work. The Startup Kit page has the detail.

Three agreements for the people an Ontario company brings on, for a fixed fee of CAD $3,950: an employment package with a termination clause drafted to the Employment Standards Act, an independent contractor agreement, and an advisor agreement, each with confidentiality, IP assignment and the covenants Ontario law still allows since the 2021 non-compete ban. Each form is drafted once and reused for every person of that type. The Build a Team Kit page explains the employee-or-contractor test and what each form contains.

Vesting and restricted shares for a named person — a founder re-vesting, a hire or an advisor receiving shares — with the restricted share agreement, the schedule, the cliff, acceleration and the company’s repurchase right, plus the approvals and the securities exemption the issuance relies on. It starts at CAD $4,950 for one recipient in Canada on standard time-based vesting, with each additional recipient on the same terms CAD $1,250. The Equity Structuring Kit page covers cliff, schedule and acceleration, and shares versus options.

The option plan a company grants options under: the plan document, the pool size and the board and shareholder approvals, from CAD $4,500. Each grant made under the plan is the Option Grant Add-on, from CAD $1,250 — the board resolution, the option agreement, the grant notice, and the ledger and cap table updated. The ESOP Plan Setup Kit page explains an option plan versus a phantom plan, how large the pool should be, and why the exercise price matters.

The paperwork for one person’s options under an adopted plan, from CAD $1,250 per grant: the board approves the grant and fixes the exercise price, the holder signs the option agreement with their number, price and vesting schedule, the grant notice goes in their file, and the option ledger and fully diluted cap table are updated. Grants made in the same engagement as the plan are batched and priced at scope review, and companies that grant continuously usually move grants onto Ongoing Counsel Support.

The company-side documents and approvals for a SAFE or convertible note round, on one of two tiers. The Private Issuer tier, from CAD $3,950, is for a round under the private-issuer exemption, which requires no report to the regulator: the instrument adapted to your articles, the approvals, a conversion model and one closing. The Accredited Investors tier, from CAD $7,500, adds the exemption work — certificates, risk acknowledgements, the reasonable-steps record — and the Form 45-106F1 filing itself, with only the regulator’s fee separate. The Funding Kit page explains which tier a round needs.

Because the work behaves differently. Incorporation, the founders’ agreement and the team agreements have a predictable scope, so the fee is fixed and stated. Equity, options and financing depend on facts the intake reveals — how many people receive equity, how many grants, which exemption the investors rely on — so the page states the starting fee for the standard case and what moves it, and the engagement letter confirms the figure before work begins.

Yes to both, on one pair. Launch and the Startup Kit together are CAD $5,950 rather than CAD $6,545, because the founder share issuance both include is done once. The other kits do not overlap, so they are priced as they are and taken in the order the company needs them — often two at a time, such as Build a Team with the ESOP kit when the first hire has been promised options. Where the needs become continuous, Ongoing Counsel Support is usually the better structure than a third kit.

In lifecycle order: Launch to form the company; the Startup Kit when there is more than one founder; Build a Team before the first hire or contractor; the Equity Structuring Kit when someone is promised shares; the ESOP Plan Setup Kit when the promise is options; and the Funding Kit when the first money arrives. The founders and startups page sets it out with the fee for each, and the delivery call at the end of each kit names the next one, or says “nothing yet”.

They are drafted for Ontario and federal corporations under Ontario law. A company elsewhere in Canada can often use them with that province’s differences addressed at intake; send a message and the firm will say. A founder, investor or team member in the United States or the UAE raises questions the kits do not cover, and those are handled as advisory work: by the firm’s Abu Dhabi office for UAE law, and with US counsel for US law.

Defined legal capacity over a twelve-month term for a company whose questions recur: an annual allocation of counsel hours, an approved set of Workflow Kits, or both, configured after intake and set out in the engagement letter with the fee. It is the continuation of the relationship after the one-time kits — for the contract review, board resolution, hiring question or shareholder matter that comes up every month once a company is real. The Ongoing Counsel Support page describes the configurations.

It is a configuration: a stated number of counsel hours, a stated kit menu, or both, for a stated fee and term, with the scope written down. That is what distinguishes it from an open subscription — you know what it covers before it starts — and from an hourly retainer, where the cost is known only afterwards. Matters outside the configuration are quoted separately when they arise.

Around three components. Counsel hours: an annual allocation of 3, 6, 9, 12 or 15+ hours of counsel time for questions within the approved scope. Approved kits: one or more Workflow Kits delivered within the term at their published fees. Or both together. Funds, programs and groups add routing rules and a conflict protocol across several companies. The ongoing support review is where the configuration is proposed.

Yes to either. A company with no lifecycle event coming but a steady stream of questions takes hours only; a company that knows it needs two kits this year and little else takes the kits only; most take a modest allocation of hours with the kits they expect. Hours and kits can be added during the term, confirmed in writing as a scope update.

Hours are allocated for the twelve-month term and the allocation resets at renewal. Where a company’s needs are uneven — quiet quarters and a busy one — the engagement letter can say so and structure the hours accordingly; the point of writing it down is that there are no surprises in either direction. The firm flags usage during the term so that the allocation can be adjusted before it runs out or goes unused.

The corporate, commercial and governance questions a running company raises: a contract to review, a board or shareholder resolution to pass, an employment question, a supplier’s terms, a director’s duty, a cap table change, a decision to talk through before it is made. Transactions, securities filings, negotiations with a counterparty’s counsel, disputes and cross-border structuring are scoped on their own when they arise, so the hours are not consumed by work they were never meant for.

When it turns on negotiation with another party, a securities filing, a valuation or tax position, M&A, a dispute or a foreign jurisdiction. The firm says so when it sees it, quotes the phase, and the hours already used on the matter count toward it. What does not change is the firm: the same team carries the matter across the line.

Yes. Launch keeps the minute book for the first year. After that, the annual resolutions, the annual return, register updates and the filing of changes are offered as a clerk-delivered annual maintenance service at a fixed yearly fee, quoted at delivery or on request, and it can be built into an Ongoing Counsel Support configuration. A minute book that has fallen years behind is reconstructed first, as a scoped clean-up.

Nothing. The consultation is where the firm hears the situation, says whether it is a kit, ongoing support or advisory work, and names the fee before anything is signed. If it is a kit, the fee is the one on the kit page; if it is advisory work, the first phase is quoted with a budget agreed first. The Fees & Engagement page lists every published fee in one place.

The whole fee for the scope on the kit page: the conflict check and engagement letter, the calls with the lawyer, the documents, one consolidated round of revisions, and the filing into the minute book. It is stated before work begins and changes only if the facts turn out not to fit the kit, in which case the firm stops, explains and quotes before doing anything more. HST and pass-through costs are the only additions.

That the stated fee is the fee for the standard case the page describes — one equity recipient, the plan without its grants, a round on a named exemption — and that the page also says what moves it: CAD $1,250 for each additional recipient, from CAD $1,250 for each option grant, the tier the investors’ exemption calls for. The final figure is confirmed in the engagement letter after scope review, so it is known before any work is done.

That the matter turns on judgment, negotiation or a counterparty, so it is scoped in phases: a first phase with a defined deliverable and a budget agreed in writing, then the next phase quoted when the first is done. Hourly billing, where it is used, runs against that budget and is reported as it goes. This is how advisory and transactional work — negotiated agreements, priced rounds, M&A, reorganizations, cross-border matters — is billed.

A fixed fee is honest only when the scope is predictable. Negotiation, another party’s counsel, a valuation, a tax position, a dispute, missing records and evolving facts each make the work depend on decisions the firm does not control. Pricing those as fixed would either overcharge the simple case or under-deliver the hard one; scoping them in phases with a budget agreed first does neither.

The add-ons each page prices: a share structure (CAD $595 or $795) or a shareholder beyond three (CAD $499) on Launch, an additional equity recipient (CAD $1,250), an option grant (from CAD $1,250), the accredited-investor tier of the Funding Kit. Beyond those: a second round of revisions, new instructions after the first round, negotiation, a counterparty’s counsel, missing records, a party abroad, or urgency. Each is quoted in writing before it is done; nothing is added to a fixed fee without your agreement.

Every fee on the site is the firm’s fee before HST. Government filing fees, the regulator’s fee for a report of exempt distribution, NUANS searches and courier charges are paid on your behalf, passed through at cost, and named in the engagement letter. The Fees & Engagement page lists the current government figures.

The firm’s fees cover the legal work. Tax advice, accounting treatment, a valuation or a fair-market-value opinion come from your accountant or valuator, and the firm coordinates with them so that the share classes, the freeze, the exercise price or the rollover are papered to match their advice. Where a matter needs a tax lawyer, the firm says so and works alongside one.

The firm handles them, and they are scoped as advisory work rather than folded into a kit fee. When an investor’s, buyer’s or counterparty’s counsel sends comments, the work changes from drafting to negotiation, so the firm quotes the phase — usually a capped budget for the first round — and everything the kit has already produced carries over.

The firm stops, explains what has changed, and quotes the additional work before doing it — as a priced add-on where the page lists one, a revised fixed fee, or a phase of advisory work with a budget. Work does not expand on its own, and you are never charged a kit fee for work that has outgrown the kit.

After the conflict check, the scope review and the engagement letter. A fixed-fee kit is paid when the letter is signed and work starts on receipt; advisory work runs on a retainer against the budget agreed for the phase, invoiced as each phase is delivered. Nothing is charged for the intake or the consultation.

Because each kit needs different facts to confirm fit: incorporation asks about the jurisdiction, the name and the shareholders; the Funding Kit asks about the investors and the exemption; the team kit asks who is being hired and on what terms. A short, specific intake gets a company to an engagement letter in one step. If you have a question rather than a matter, the contact form is the right route; if you are not sure which kit applies, book a consultation.

The first intake exists to route the matter, run the conflict check and catch the things that change scope — a founder with counsel, an investor abroad, shares already promised. The detailed facts and documents are collected on the intake call with the lawyer, once the engagement letter is signed, which is the right time for them.

Start with the earliest one in the sequence and say what else is coming. A founder who needs incorporation, a founders’ agreement and vesting starts the Launch intake, notes the Startup Kit and vesting, and the firm proposes the sequence and the combined fee — Launch and the Startup Kit together at CAD $5,950, with the Equity Structuring Kit to follow. One intake, one engagement letter.

One intake to start, then the intake call with the lawyer, which replaces any second form. Where a company takes a further kit later, that kit’s intake is short and most of it is already known.

Call the Toronto office on +1 (416) 915‑4233 or the Abu Dhabi office on +971 50 5070 625, or send a message through the contact form and say it is urgent; you do not need to complete a full intake to flag it. The firm will say quickly whether it can meet the timing. Urgent matters still need the conflict check and an engagement letter, both of which can be turned around fast when the facts are clear.

When the matter is negotiated, investor-facing, cross-border, disputed, urgent, or involves another party’s counsel; when you are not sure which kit applies; or when the company is past the startup stage and the question is what to do rather than which document to sign. If you know which kit you need, the intake is faster.

Send them when the firm asks for them, which is usually on the intake call after the engagement letter is signed — that is when they are covered by the engagement and by privilege. Before then, the firm may ask for a limited document to assess scope or conflicts, such as the articles of an existing company. Anything sensitive should wait for that request.

The firm’s bespoke practice for matters that turn on judgment, negotiation or a counterparty: shareholders’ agreements that have to be argued, priced rounds and investor rights, securities exemptions beyond the kits, reorganizations, holding companies and estate freezes, the sale or purchase of a business, commercial agreements with the other side’s counsel involved, and cross-border matters. It is scoped in phases with a budget agreed first. The Advisory & Transactional Work page and the practice pages describe it.

When the outcome depends on someone other than you — an investor, a buyer, a co-founder with counsel, a regulator, a foreign jurisdiction — or on a position that has to be reasoned rather than documented: a valuation, a tax structure, a dispute, a transaction. The intake catches it; where a kit has already started, what it produced carries over.

SAFE and convertible note rounds, through the Funding Kit where standard and as advisory work where negotiated; priced equity rounds — term sheet, subscription agreement, articles of amendment for the new class, investor rights and the amended shareholders’ agreement; the securities exemption and filing on each; and the readiness work investors ask for: a reconciled cap table, a complete minute book, IP assigned to the company. The venture financing practice page sets it out.

Yes, on two tracks. A round on the private-issuer or accredited-investor exemption, with investors who sign the standard instrument, is the Funding Kit, from CAD $3,950 or CAD $7,500 by tier. A round where an investor has counsel, terms are negotiated, there are side letters beyond the standard variants, or an investor is outside Canada is advisory work, quoted for the round, with the conversion already modelled if the firm did the earlier instruments.

Yes, as advisory work. A priced round is where the convertibles convert, and it involves the term sheet, the subscription agreement, articles of amendment creating the new share class, investor rights, an amended shareholders’ agreement, the exemption work and the filing on the equity, and the closing. It is scoped in phases — term sheet first, then documents and closing — with a budget agreed for each.

Yes. Every issuance the firm papers — founder shares, restricted shares, options, SAFEs, notes, a priced round — is placed under the prospectus exemption it relies on, and where that exemption requires a report, the firm prepares and files it. The Funding Kit’s accredited-investor tier includes Form 45-106F1 and the SEDAR+ filing; the private-issuer exemption and the employee and consultant exemption need no report. Other exemptions, and any question of dealer registration, are advisory work.

Yes; that is the point at which drafting becomes negotiation, and it is scoped as advisory work. The firm reviews the markup, advises on what to concede and what to hold, and negotiates with the other side, on a capped budget for the first round with the next round quoted from there. Everything a kit has already produced carries over.

On the corporate side, yes: what the articles, the by-laws, the shareholders’ agreement and the statute actually say, what the board can and cannot do, the buy-out or exit mechanics already agreed, and the record of decisions. Where a founder or shareholder has their own counsel, the firm acts for the company and says so. Where it will go to court, the firm brings in litigation counsel and stays involved on the business and corporate decisions.

In phases, each with a defined deliverable and a budget agreed in writing before it starts; time runs against that budget and is reported as it goes. Where a phase is predictable, such as the review of an existing agreement, the firm often fixes the fee. A retainer is taken at the start of each phase and reconciled at its end.

Yes: Launch, the firm’s lawyer-led incorporation in Ontario or federally, for CAD $1,595, within five business days — and with the Startup Kit at CAD $5,950 for a company with more than one founder. Companies incorporated elsewhere or earlier are organized or cleaned up on the same intake.

Yes. A founders’ agreement among founders who agree on the terms is the Startup Kit at CAD $4,950. A shareholders’ agreement or unanimous shareholders’ agreement for an established company — with investors, family shareholders, a buy-sell on death or disability, or terms that have to be negotiated — is advisory work through the shareholder agreements practice.

Yes, through the Equity Structuring Kit, from CAD $4,950 for one recipient and CAD $1,250 for each additional recipient on the same terms: the restricted share agreement, the schedule and cliff, acceleration, the company’s repurchase right, and the approvals and exemption. Vesting added to shares already issued is a common case and is handled the same way.

Yes: the ESOP Plan Setup Kit, from CAD $4,500 for the plan, the pool and the approvals, with each grant under it from CAD $1,250. An existing plan is reviewed at scope review and used if it works. Plans with participants in the United States or the UAE, or an option pool negotiated with an investor, are advisory work.

Yes: the Build a Team Kit, CAD $3,950 for the three forms an Ontario company needs, drafted to the Employment Standards Act and reusable for every person of that type. An executive agreement with negotiated compensation, change-of-control or severance terms, a written opinion on a borderline classification, and anything already in dispute are scoped separately; where a matter needs employment litigation counsel, the firm brings them in.

Yes, as advisory work or within Ongoing Counsel Support: the company’s own customer and supplier agreements, terms of service and master services agreements, NDAs, licences, distribution and agency agreements, and the review and negotiation of the other side’s paper. The commercial transactions practice page describes it; a company that signs contracts every month usually puts this on Ongoing Counsel Support rather than engaging matter by matter.

Yes, for Ontario companies whose terms and privacy documents need to say what the business actually does, as advisory work scoped from the company’s real data flows — usually a short fixed phase. Where the product is software, a platform or a marketplace, or handles regulated data, the terms and the privacy program are a larger piece of work and are scoped after a consultation.

Yes. Every kit that issues shares or options updates the cap table and the registers as part of the fee, and the Funding Kit includes a conversion model. Reconciling a cap table that has drifted from the share register, or setting a company up on a cap table platform, is scoped separately after a look at the records, since the size of the job depends on how far the two have diverged.

Yes: board and shareholder approvals, directors’ duties, reserved matters, officers’ authority, the minute book and the record of decisions, and how a board should act when founders and investors disagree. For an established company this is the core of the advisory relationship; the governance and shareholder structuring practice page sets it out.

Yes, as advisory work alongside your accountant, whose tax plan drives the structure: the holding company, the share exchange or rollover, the new share classes, the freeze, the trust as shareholder, the approvals and the filings. The firm papers the legal side to match the tax advice, and coordinates the two so nothing is signed out of order.

Yes, through the mergers and acquisitions practice: the letter of intent, due diligence, the share or asset purchase agreement, the reorganization that often precedes a sale, and closing. A pre-transaction review — minute book, cap table, contracts, IP, employment terms — a year ahead lets the things a buyer will find be fixed quietly rather than negotiated under pressure.

One configured relationship for an organization with recurring legal needs across several companies — a fund, a venture studio, a program, a family office or a group — with an approved kit menu, counsel capacity, intake and routing rules, reporting, and a conflict protocol, set out after a strategy session. The Enterprise, Portfolio & Custom Support page describes it.

Venture funds and studios with portfolio companies that keep needing the same things; accelerators and programs that want a defined legal pathway for every cohort beyond the no-cost education arrangement; family offices and groups holding several operating companies; and multi-entity businesses, including Canada–UAE groups, that want one firm across their structure.

Yes, on the portfolio side: a kit menu the fund’s companies can draw on at known fees, counsel hours pooled or allocated per company, a single intake route, and periodic reporting on what was done. The firm acts for each portfolio company on its own engagement letter, or for the fund where the fund is the client, and the configuration says which.

With a written protocol agreed at the start: who the client is on each matter, what is shared with the fund and what stays with the company, and what happens when a portfolio company’s interests diverge from the fund’s — a financing negotiation, a departure, a sale. Each engagement runs its own conflict check, and where the firm cannot act for both sides it says so and helps the other find counsel.

Yes. A typical configuration has the kit menu at published fees, an allocation of counsel hours, and agreed escalation rules for advisory work — who approves it, how it is quoted, and how it is reported. The whole is confirmed in writing after the strategy session and reviewed at the end of each term.

By custom quote, following the configuration: the number of companies, the kit menu and its expected volume, the counsel capacity, the jurisdictions involved and the reporting required. Kits inside the configuration are billed at their published fees; hours and advisory phases at the rates the engagement letter sets. The strategy session is where the proposal is built.

Yes, and differently on each. A Canada–UAE matter is handled by one firm on both sides, from the firm’s offices in Toronto and Abu Dhabi, under Canadian and UAE law. A Canada–US matter is handled by the firm on the Canadian side; where the structure requires US law, US counsel handles that part. In both, the client deals with one firm.

That the firm advises on both the Canadian law and the UAE law from its own offices, with counsel trained in Ontario’s common law and in the civil-law tradition UAE documents are written in. A Canadian holding shares in a free-zone company, offered equity under a UAE-law shareholders’ agreement, or moving a company or capital between the two countries receives one set of advice covering both sides, after a consultation. The Canada–UAE page sets out the matters.

The firm advises on the structure and handles the Canadian side: the Ontario or federal corporation, the Canadian hires, the Canadian side of a financing or acquisition, and whether the Canadian company remains a Canadian-controlled private corporation. Where the structure requires US law, US counsel handles that part, and the firm reviews the two sets of documents together so that they correspond. The Canada–US page describes the practice.

Yes. The firm advises on UAE corporate, commercial and regulatory law from its Abu Dhabi office: company formation and free-zone structures, shareholders’ agreements and governance, commercial contracts, licensing, and the regulatory-facing corporate work of institutions. Disputes are handled by negotiation and, where the agreement provides for it, by arbitration in the UAE; the firm does not appear before the courts. The Abu Dhabi page has the office details.

They are identified at intake and named in the engagement letter. Where the foreign law is UAE law, the firm advises directly from its Abu Dhabi office; where it is US law, US counsel handles that part; where it is another jurisdiction, the firm limits its advice to Canadian law and coordinates local counsel, whose fees are separate and agreed with you first.

Sometimes. An Ontario incorporation with a founder abroad is still Launch: the OBCA has no director-residency requirement, and the intake handles the rest. But a recipient of equity, an investor or a counterparty outside Canada raises that jurisdiction’s securities, tax or corporate rules alongside Ontario’s, and that analysis is scoped as advisory work, by the firm’s Abu Dhabi office for UAE law and with US counsel for US law.

If you know which kit you need, its intake: one form, a conflict check, an engagement letter. If you are not sure, or the matter is past the startup stage, book a consultation and describe the situation in a paragraph; it costs nothing and ends with a named path and a fee. If you only have a question, the contact form.

Use the intake when the page you are on describes your situation — you know it is incorporation, or the founders’ agreement, or the team documents. Book a consultation when the situation spans several kits, involves another party or a border, or when the question is what to do rather than which document to sign.

Nothing is lost. Every kit intake asks what else is coming, and the firm routes the matter to the right kit or sequence and sends one engagement letter for it. You will not be asked to start over.

The conflict check; the scope review, which confirms the kit fits or says what does; the engagement letter with the scope, fee, assumptions and exclusions; and payment of the fixed fee or the retainer. Then the intake call with the lawyer, which is where the work starts.

Yes, on every matter, before any work is done. It states who the client is, the scope, the fee and how it is billed, the assumptions the fee depends on, what is excluded, and what happens if the scope changes. It is short, and it is the document that makes the fee on the page the fee on the invoice.

To ask a question, the contact form. To start a matter, book a consultation or use the intake on the kit page. For anything urgent, the Toronto office on +1 (416) 915‑4233 or the Abu Dhabi office on +971 50 5070 625, or email info@faurilaw.ca. The Toronto office is at First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, 57th Floor; the Abu Dhabi office at the D1 Building, Office 701, Al Raha Beach.