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Practice Area · Technology & International

IT & Startups

SaaS, technology contracts, startup counsel.

In short

Technology companies outgrow their paperwork quickly. The work is to have the legal layer in order, ownership, contracts and privacy, before an investor or an enterprise customer looks under the hood.

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Scope of work

What we take on inside it & startups, and what each piece of it involves.

  • Incorporation & founder structure

    Federal or provincial incorporation, founder vesting, share structure and IP assignment, sorted out on day one.

  • SaaS & customer contracts

    MSAs, terms of service, DPAs and order forms that still work once the customers get large.

  • Shareholder & SAFE agreements

    Founder and shareholder agreements, SAFEs and convertible notes, drafted to keep the cap table clean.

  • IP assignment & protection

    Employee and contractor assignments, open-source review and trademark strategy, so ownership is clean on diligence day.

  • Financing rounds

    Seed and Series A term sheets, investor negotiation, closing documents, and what has to happen after the close.

  • Privacy & compliance

    PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25 and GDPR: privacy policies and data handling that survive a customer's security review.

Who we act for

Pre-seed through Series A and beyond.

  • SaaS
  • Fintech
  • AI / ML
  • Healthtech
  • Marketplaces
  • Developer tools
  • Climate tech
  • Web3

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