Tech Companies | Venture Capital
Starting a technology business is a challenge. With demonstrated expertise in areas such as company formation, equity structures, corporate and cross-border financings, and technology transactions, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) has acquired a reputation as one of the country’s top legal advisors to growth-oriented technology companies, from start-up to exit, whether by IPO or mergers and acquisitions, as well as venture capital and other investors.

FMC’s Tech Companies & Venture Capital Group understands the challenges of taking an idea and evolving it into a mature and successful business. With a number of our lawyers having worked as in-house counsel to both private and public technology companies, our clients benefit not only from our legal expertise, but our understanding business objectives and strategies. As we work with both companies and investors, we are able to anticipate the issues that our clients must address, no matter which side of the table they are on. Our clients also gain from the relationships we have developed as an active participant in the Canadian and international venture capital community and technology industry.

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Representative Work
Acted for Ignis Innovation Inc. in its 2011 equity financing by Asian-based investors (June 2011)
Represented a Digital Media Venture Capital investor in a $6 million Series A round of funding in a developer of a software-based wireless infrastructure technology (March - April 2011)
Acting for several angel investors in three international based technology investments (January - April 2011)
Did you know?
The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2011 ranks Michael BeairstoTom Houston and Tom Sides as leading lawyers in the area of technology transactions while ranking Michael Beairsto and Tom Houston as leading computer and I.T. law lawyers.
The LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2012 ranks FMC's Technology Groups in Ottawa and Toronto among Canada's leading practice areas while The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2011 ranks FMC's Technology Group in Ottawa as a leading practice area in technology transactions and computer I.T. law.
FMC has been highly recommended in the area of Venture Capital in Practical Law Company’s PLC Venture Capital multi-jurisdictional guide 2012.
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