Startups & Emerging Companies

The Emerging and High Growth Companies Group at Osler are individuals passionate about entrepreneurship and fostering the growth of early and growth stage ventures. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Ottawa and Calgary, team members are eager to share their experience and insight with emerging companies to help maximize their development and ensure long-term success. The team leverages the New York office’s cross-border legal expertise to support Canadian companies’ growth and transactional needs south of the border.

Osler has represented entrepreneurs and emerging and growth stage companies nationwide from a broad spectrum of knowledge-based industries, supporting them from incubation through their growth trajectory, as well as the venture capital funds, growth equity and private equity funds that finance them. The team provides legal advice on the wide range of issues and legal requirements that emerging and high growth ventures face, from corporate and tax structuring and fundraising and shareholder agreements to intellectual property strategies and employment- and compensation-related matters – all of which require a deep understanding of the market and expert counsel.