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We’re here to help drive business across borders.
As the largest business law firm in Canada, our team can draw upon a full suite of specialty practices whenever the need arises. From untangling complex transactions and getting them across the line to defending high profile class actions, we help companies across the Americas doing business in Canada.
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Overview

Fasken advises and represents clients in cross-border matters throughout the Americas. We work with Canadian companies doing business abroad and U.S. and Latin American companies doing business in Canada. We have also acted as global coordinating counsel on multijurisdictional M&A and financing transactions.

Our clients range from established multinational corporations to start-ups interested in attracting foreign investment or expanding to new markets.

Chambers Global, IJ Global Americas, iamPatent 1000, Who’s Who Legal and other respected international publications consistently recognize our practitioners as global leaders.

Fasken advises clients and works with professionals throughout the Americas in all types of commercial transactions, disputes, CSR and indigenous peoples matters. Canada has seven free trade agreements in the region; our team is proficient in regional regulations and bilateral treaties, with many of us having held key positions on treaty negotiation teams and committees.

If disputes arise, we represent clients before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)'s International Court of Arbitration, American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).


Areas of Expertise

  • Latin America, Our competitive advantages in Latin American include top industry and practice expertise, strong relationships with established local counsel, key players and governments and the diversity of our multilingual, award-winning team. Fasken is a global leader in mining, energy and infrastructure law...
  • United States, Your Canadian partner for cross-border transactions and complex litigation.

Experience

  • A cloud commerce platform provider obtains Anton Piller order against a former employee, [Case - A leading cloud commerce platform], Represented a cloud commerce platform provider in securing an Anton Piller order against a former employee for unauthorized data downloads.
  • A manufacturer seeks remittance of misappropriated commercial secrets, [Case - A leading manufacturer of doors and windows], Representing a manufacturer in a commercial secrets misappropriation case against a former executive.
  • Plumbing equipment manufacturer initiates legal action for trade secret misappropriation, [Case - A leading plumbing equipment manufacturer], Representing a leading plumbing equipment manufacturer in a trade secret misappropriation case.
  • Blue Jay Gold Corp. enters into a binding share purchase agreement with Tincorp Metals Inc., [Deal - Blue Jay Gold Corp.], Blue Jay Gold Corp acquires Skukum Gold Project in the Yukon.
  • UKG acquires Shiftboard, a leading energy and manufacturing employee scheduling solutions provider, [Deal - Shiftboard, Inc.], Acquisition in the HR Tech space
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development completes C$3.85 million equity investment in Euro Manganese Inc., [Deal - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development], EBRD invests C$3.85 million into Euro Manganese Inc to advance the Chvaletice Manganese Project.
  • Streamex Exchange Corp. merges with BioSig Technologies, Inc., [Deal - Streamforge Inc.], Merger in the FinTech industry
  • Riverside Resources Inc. completes spin-out of its Canadian projects and operations into Blue Jay Gold Corp., [Deal - Riverside Resources Inc.], Spin-out arrangement in mining space.
  • Bidaya Technologies closes a pre-seed financing led by Metiquity Ventures Fund I LP, [Deal - Bidaya Technologies Inc.], Bidaya Technologies closes pre-seed financing.

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