Overview
Eamonn Flaherty has a corporate and commercial law practice that includes national and multinational clients in a variety of sectors including manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Eamonn advises on matters related to financing, corporate governance, complex corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, major commercial agreements, service agreements, and regulatory approval. Many of the transactions he has worked on involve multiple Canadian jurisdictions or U.S.-Canada cross-border parties.
Eamonn provides advice to his information technology clients on Internet law, licensing, software development, and intellectual property protection. He also advises multinational companies on Canadian immigration regulations in connection with the hire and transfer of skilled foreign workers.
Professional achievements & leadership
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Corporate Commercial Law, 2015 - 2017
Thought leadership
- Speaker, “Hosting the Away Team: How to Manage Foreign Worker Issues," Miller Thomson’s 2017 Labour Relations & Employment Law Conference, April 6, 2017
- Speaker, “Doing Business in Canada,” Direct Selling Association (US) Conferences
- Speaker, “Privacy and the Internet” and “Doing Business in Canada,” Direct Sellers Association of Canada Seminars
- Past Speaker, “Intellectual Property Considerations in Joint Development Arrangements,” Toronto Board of Trade Seminar
- Speaker, “10 LegalTips and Traps for Owner Managed Businesses,” “10 Minute Business Lawyer,” and “Joint Developments and Intellectual Property,” Miller Thomson’s Executive Seminar Series
- Speaker, “Applying to Work in Canada: Making Sure Your Foreign Worker Fits the Right Mould,” Miller Thomson’s Employment and Labour Law Group Seminar
- “Express Entry—The New Reality for Economic Immigration to Canada,” 2014
- Co-author, “E-Commerce,” in Business Laws of Canada, 2009-2014 editions, West Publishing, 2014
- “Cyber-Giving: A Non-Tax Legal Primer,” Charities and Not-for-Profit Newsletter, June 2006
Professional memberships
- Past Chair and Current Member, Markham Board of Trade Business Excellence Awards Committee
- Law Society of England and Wales
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
- Direct Selling Association (US)
- Government Relations Committee, Direct Sellers Association of Canada (since 2005)
- Canadian IT Law Association
- Ontario Bar Association
Bar admissions & education
- Ontario, 1998
- England and Wales, 1994
- LL.M. (E-Commerce), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 2003
- B.Sc. (2:1, Honours), Newcastle University, 1990
