Overview
Western Canada’s technology industry is one of the most active in Canada. Lawson Lundell’s Technology Group provides advice to domestic and international technology clients and investors, tailoring our advice and strategies to suit a company’s stage of development, whether emerging, early-stage, high-growth or established. Our lawyers advise clients on all aspects of company formation, financing, acquisitions, divestments through to exit events. We help clients with their intellectual property strategy, IP portfolio development, management and exploitation, helping them leverage and protect their IP in relation to matters involving trade secrets and confidential information, trade-marks, passing off, copyrights and registered designs. We assist financial institutions, venture capital funds, angel investors and corporate VCs with financing technology companies.
Members of our Technology Group are also experienced in assisting foreign technologies with establishing Canadian offices, whether by acquisition of an existing business or through establishing greenfield development offices.
Established and early-stage technology companies rely on us for:
- Business formation
- Capital structure
- Early-stage financing
- IP management, protection and enforcement
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Initial public offerings and other public offerings
- Partnership, joint venture and strategic alliance agreements
- Venture capital fund formation
- Private equity financings
- Debt financing
- Technology licensing and transfer, outsourcing, and software development agreements
- Turnkey systems acquisitions
- Employment and consulting agreements
- Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and reseller agreements
- Digital media publishing agreements
- Electronic commerce agreements
- Governance
The Technology Group also draws on the firm’s full resources to provide advice to technology clients in employment, privacy, intellectual property, tax and commercial litigation matters. We are involved with the local start-up and technology community through participation in conferences and organizations such as e@UBC, Accelerate Okanagan, Metabridge and Innovation Island.
Our subsector experience includes acting for clients active in digital media and gaming, virtual reality, alternate reality and mixed reality, robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, fintech, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, e-commerce, SaaS, medical devices, digital imaging, advanced material sciences, industrial technologies, clean technology and battery and energy storage technologies.
Key Contacts
- t 604.631.9173
- t 250.300.3024t 604.631.9153
Practices & Industries
- Asia Pacific
- Banking & Debt Financing
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance & Securities
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Labour, Employment & Human Rights
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privacy & Data Management
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Tax
- US Cross-Border Litigation