Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP - Toronto
Ian Kyer practices corporate/commercial law with an emphasis on serving information technology companies. He advises buyers and sellers of technology on acquisitions, licensing, outsourcing and technology-related legal disputes. Ian is regularly retained by the federal and the Ontario provincial government with respect to computer-related transactions and disputes.
The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory (see www.lexpert.ca) has stated that Ian is one of the most consistently recommended ''leading practitioners - Toronto''. He has been listed for several years in The Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and has twice been rated one of the top 25 IT lawyers in the world in Euromoney’s The Best of the Best. Ian is also listed in Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. He has been given the highest rating by Martindale Hubbell and has recently been chosen to be in Canadian Who’s Who.
Ian is the founder and first president of the Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can), Canada’s first national computer law association; and is a past president of the Computer Law Association, Inc., the U.S.-based organization that serves computer and information technology lawyers in North America and elsewhere. He is also a member of the editorial board of several computer law publications including the Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology. Ian has written and spoken extensively on computer and telecomrelated legal issues both in Canada and internationally. He has also co-authored books on the history of legal education in Ontario and on computer-related legal agreements.
Ian joined the firm in 1980 and became a partner in 1988. Ian is on the steering committee of the firm’s national Technology and Intellectual Property practice group, and is co-director of the Toronto office’s Information and Technology practice group.
The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory (see www.lexpert.ca) has stated that Ian is one of the most consistently recommended ''leading practitioners - Toronto''. He has been listed for several years in The Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and has twice been rated one of the top 25 IT lawyers in the world in Euromoney’s The Best of the Best. Ian is also listed in Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. He has been given the highest rating by Martindale Hubbell and has recently been chosen to be in Canadian Who’s Who.
Ian is the founder and first president of the Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can), Canada’s first national computer law association; and is a past president of the Computer Law Association, Inc., the U.S.-based organization that serves computer and information technology lawyers in North America and elsewhere. He is also a member of the editorial board of several computer law publications including the Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology. Ian has written and spoken extensively on computer and telecomrelated legal issues both in Canada and internationally. He has also co-authored books on the history of legal education in Ontario and on computer-related legal agreements.
Ian joined the firm in 1980 and became a partner in 1988. Ian is on the steering committee of the firm’s national Technology and Intellectual Property practice group, and is co-director of the Toronto office’s Information and Technology practice group.