Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the depth of a large corporate firm and the directness of a boutique: the experienced lawyer is involved directly, not supervising from a distance — which is usually the difference between a clean outcome and an expensive one.
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This is the core of the firm
Around the defined, repeatable steps a company needs sits the work that actually turns on judgment: structuring a deal, weighing a set of terms, reading where leverage really lies, and deciding what’s worth pushing on. It rarely looks the same twice, and it doesn’t reduce to a form. It’s most of what we do — and it’s where having a senior lawyer on the matter directly, rather than a step removed, changes the result.
When companies bring us in
Usually when something is being negotiated, structured, or sold — or when a decision will be hard to undo:
How we run a matter
- Large-firm experience, boutique focus. The depth of corporate work clients would expect from a much larger firm, delivered at a scale where they’re known rather than numbered.
- Senior attention, directly. You work with the lawyer responsible for your matter from the first conversation through to completion — the judgment you’re retaining is the judgment doing the work.
- Scoped, and clear on cost. We confirm what we’re actually being asked to do and agree scope and cost before we start; we’re direct about risk and leverage — what’s worth pushing on, what isn’t, and where a deal actually turns.
- Built for the long term. For companies that need us regularly, this becomes an ongoing-counsel relationship rather than a series of separate engagements.
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The experience behind it
Negotiated corporate work rewards having seen the situation before. The firm’s work draws on a depth of experience few firms of its size can offer — including acting as counsel inside a publicly traded company through a multi-billion-dollar merger, advising a Government of Ontario infrastructure agency on major transit and public-private-partnership programs, and more than a decade of cross-border M&A and restructuring work in the Middle East. It’s an unusually broad base to bring to matters far smaller than those — and our clients draw on it directly.
Where the fixed-fee work fits
Not everything needs to be built from scratch. Some steps — an incorporation, a standard founders’ package, a first option plan — are defined enough to handle at a fixed fee, which we offer through our structured legal systems. They sit beneath the advisory practice, not beside it: the moment a matter stops being routine, it’s handled as advisory work. The structure exists so the routine is done efficiently and the judgment-heavy work gets full attention.
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Who we work with
We act for founders and early-stage companies, growth and private companies, and the investors and funds that back them — along with U.S. and other foreign companies that need Canadian corporate counsel. The common thread is a matter that needs senior judgment, not just processing.
Common questions
- How is this different from your fixed-fee kits? The kits handle defined, routine steps. Advisory is for everything that turns on judgment — and the moment a matter stops being standard, it’s advisory work, by design.
- Do you only take on large deals?The experience behind the firm is large-scale, but we bring it to matters far smaller — that’s rather the point of the firm.
- What does “ongoing counsel” mean? For companies with continuing needs, we act as the corporate counsel across their matters rather than billing each as a separate, standalone engagement.
- I’m not sure which area I need. That’s a normal place to begin. A short consultation will sort out what’s involved and how we’d approach it.
- Who actually does the work? The lawyer responsible for your matter — from the first conversation to completion, not a team you meet once and never see again.
Explore the work
Advisory and transactional work runs across the firm’s practice areas — venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, governance and shareholder structuring, ownership and equity structuring, commercial transactions, and IP and technology. Wherever a matter sits, it’s handled by the lawyer responsible for it.
Not sure which you need? That’s a normal place to begin.
Tell us what you’re working on, and you’ll hear back from the lawyer who would handle it.
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December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 1, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
April 15, 2023
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 8, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
September 10, 2022
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
September 26, 2022
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 11, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 1, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 1, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 1, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 1, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 8, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 11, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 11, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
April 28, 2023
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
September 10, 2022
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 31, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 11, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 11, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
December 29, 2025
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
April 15, 2023
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 7, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
January 11, 2026
Khaled El Fauri
Most corporate work that matters doesn’t fit a template — a financing has its own terms, a shareholder arrangement its own history, a sale its own pressure points. That work is the core of the firm. We handle it with the...
