From our Guide to Doing Business in Canada and our Legal Checklist for Successfully Expanding your Business into Canada, to our relationships with angel and venture capital investors, our lawyers are passionate about start-ups and emerging companies and have the knowledge and networks to back it up.
Our Start-ups and Emerging Companies Group can assist entrepreneurs with all of the legal services they require on their path to success, including:
TDS is also a law firm sponsor of the technology incubator, North Forge Technology Exchange. Once our emerging company client’s businesses have fully matured, we look forward to seeing them at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), as TDS is a service provider sponsor of EO.
Glen Agar
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Lewis Allen
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Paolo Aquila
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Renae Baker
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Melissa Beaumont
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Mitch Billinkoff
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Kevin Bruce
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Bjorn Christianson, K.C.
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Silvia de Sousa
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Elmer Gomes
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Leilani Kagan, K.C.
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Lucy Kinnear
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Frank Lavitt, K.C.
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Barry MacTavish
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Melissa Malden
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Ross McFadyen
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Jennifer McRae
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Drew Mitchell
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Joel Olfert
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Robert Olson
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Leo E. K. Palay
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Tanci Smart-Carvalho
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Danny Spencer
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Art Stacey
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C. Leah Suderman
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Bennett Ulrich
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Terra Welsh
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Nicholas Woelcke
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Celyna Yu
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Bradley Zander
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