Senior corporate counsel, from Toronto.
Fauri Law's Canadian practice operates from Toronto, at First Canadian Place, and is led by Khaled El Fauri, its founder and principal — a corporate lawyer called to the Bar of Ontario, with a JD from the University of Toronto and senior-counsel experience on a Canadian public-company merger and government-scale infrastructure programs.
Since 2020, the firm has advised founders, investors, and companies on corporate, commercial, governance, venture financing, and transactional matters across Canada and the United States, including Delaware and Canada–U.S. structuring. Clients work directly with senior counsel — and, where a matter reaches the UAE, with the same firm on both sides of the corridor.
The practice is corporate and commercial (non-contentious). Meet the principal & reach the office →
What we handle in Canada.
A focused corporate and commercial practice, connecting legal analysis to business context, risk, and implementation. Each area is part of the firm's wider practice — explore the detail on the linked pages.
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Corporate advisory & governance
Incorporations, structuring, reorganisations, approvals, and board and shareholder matters under Canadian law. Governance & control →
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Commercial contracts
Customer, vendor, SaaS, technology, licensing, distribution, and strategic commercial agreements. Commercial →
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Venture financing & investment
SAFEs, convertibles, priced rounds, investor documents, and Canada–U.S. and Delaware structuring. Raise capital →
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Transactions & reorganisations
Acquisitions, investments, restructurings, diligence, and closing support. Mergers & acquisitions →
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Ownership & equity structuring
Share classes, vesting, option and incentive plans, and cap-table design. Structure ownership & equity →
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Ongoing & enterprise support
Defined senior-counsel capacity, and configured support for funds, platforms, and portfolios. Enterprise & portfolio →
Counsel for companies, investors, and the teams that build them.
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Founders & growth companies
Formation, ownership, financing, contracts, governance, and the legal infrastructure for companies preparing to scale or raise.
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Investors, funds & family offices
Venture and growth investments, investment documents, structuring, diligence, and portfolio governance.
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Corporates & multinationals
Subsidiaries, governance, commercial contracts, and cross-border corporate and transaction matters.
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Platforms, accelerators & venture studios
Approved legal pathways, intake, triage, and escalation across cohorts and multiple companies.
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Relocating & cross-border clients
Those moving capital, companies, or operations between Canada and the UAE — handled by one firm on both sides.
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Institutions & regulated groups
Governance, commercial, and transaction support informed by years inside institutional and regulated environments.
Senior judgment, delivered with structure.
Fauri Law pairs genuinely senior corporate judgment — the standard set by its founder and principal — with a way of working that is organised, scoped, and built to scale. The result is advice grounded in complex corporate, financing, and governance work across Canada and the United States, delivered with the clarity and discipline that founders, investors, and companies actually need.
That work spans the spectrum: bespoke advisory and transactions where senior judgment matters most, structured legal systems for the matters that recur, and enterprise support for funds, platforms, and portfolios. Whatever the engagement, the standard is the same — clear advice, defined scope, and a team that understands the business behind the document.
A practice built on cross-border transactions.
Since 2020, Fauri Law has advised founders, investors, and companies on complex, multi-party cross-border corporate and financing transactions across Canada and the United States, including Delaware and Canada–U.S. structuring.
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$12M+
Equity financings
across multiple transactions
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$9M+
Convertible instruments
convertible notes and SAFEs
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$7M+
Capital reorganisation
multi-class redesign & tax-deferred share-for-share across ten shareholders
These mandates — multi-party structures, multi-class equity, and tax-aware reorganisations across jurisdictions — sit alongside the principal's senior-counsel roles on a Canadian public-company merger and government-scale infrastructure programs.
They also reflect more than a decade the principal spent as General Counsel inside major institutional groups — billion-dollar M&A, disputes, and reorganisations — experience the firm brings to Canadian and Canada–UAE work. See the principal's background →
Reading for founders and investors.
Selected writing on the ownership, governance, and transaction decisions that recur for Canadian companies.
Guide: a practical walkthrough of an acquisition transaction, start to close.
Download the Acquisition Guide (PDF)Questions about the Canadian practice.
Is Fauri Law a law firm in Canada?
Yes. Fauri Law operates in Canada through Fauri Law Professional Corporation, a corporate and commercial law firm based in Toronto and operating since 2020. The practice is non-contentious, focused on corporate, commercial, governance, venture, and transactional matters.
Where is the Toronto office?
The office is at First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, 57th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5X 1C7, in the heart of the financial district.
What kind of Canadian matters does Fauri Law handle?
Corporate advisory and governance, commercial contracts, venture financing and investment support, transactions and reorganisations, ownership and equity structuring, and ongoing or enterprise-level counsel. It is a corporate and commercial practice; it does not handle litigation.
What makes Fauri Law different for Canada–UAE work?
The firm is licensed in both Canada and the UAE and led by a lawyer qualified in both common law (Ontario) and civil law (Jordan), with more than a decade inside major institutions. A cross-border matter is handled by one firm across both markets rather than split between two.
Can the firm support investors, funds, accelerators, or portfolio platforms?
Yes. The firm supports funds, accelerators, venture studios, and portfolio platforms through configured legal pathways, intake, triage, escalation, and ongoing counsel — designed around how the organisation operates.
How does an engagement start?
Through a consultation or matter intake, followed by conflict review, scope confirmation, and written engagement terms before work begins. Engagements are defined-scope and lawyer-led.
Speak with the principal.
Khaled El Fauri
Leads the firm · Responsible for the Canadian practice & team
- Bar of Ontario
- JD · U of Toronto
- LLM · Sussex
- Public-company M&A
- Cross-border Canada–U.S.
Corporate lawyer called to the Bar of Ontario (JD, University of Toronto; LLM, Sussex), with senior-counsel roles on a Canadian public-company merger and government-scale infrastructure programs, and more than a decade as General Counsel inside major institutional groups. He founded Fauri Law in 2020 and is responsible for the Canadian practice and team; he is also qualified at the Jordan Bar (civil law) and based at the firm's Abu Dhabi office.
Canada Office
Fauri Law Professional Corporation
First Canadian Place
100 King Street West, 57th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1C7, Canada
Tel. +1 (416) 915-4233
UAE Office
Fauri Law FZE
D1 Building, Office 801
Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Licensed 2025 · Licence No. 4425587.01
Tel. +971 (0) 50 50 27530
Email: khaled@faurilaw.ca
Discuss a Canadian matter.
For senior counsel on a Canadian business issue, or recurring legal support for a company, fund, platform, or portfolio, Fauri Law can help determine the right path.