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Aird & Berlis LLP is a startup-friendly business law firm.

We provide local, national and cross-border expertise to our diverse client base, including startups and
entrepreneurial businesses at all growth stages. Our relationships with financial institutions, government agencies and large multinational corporations provide a leg up for you and your business.

A&B has connections and affiliations both in Canada and internationally that enhance our ability to successfully complete major international financings and assignments. 

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    Tony represents clients in a variety of high-technology industries, and has extensive patent prosecution experience in the fields of software, hardwar...

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    Tony Sabeta

    Tony Sabeta, B.Eng.

    Patent Agent | Partner

    Tony Sabeta, B.Eng.

    Tony Sabeta is a Partner of Aird & McBurney and is a registered Patent Agent in Canada and the United States. He is a Director of Aird & Berlis’ Startups Group. Tony represents clients in a variety of high-technology industries, and has prepared, prosecuted, and secured patents in the computer and electrical areas such as software, hardware, electrical circuitry, virtual/augmented reality, computer graphics, network data storage, network security and monitoring, wireless networking devices, RFID systems, depth sensing technology (e.g., LiDAR), display technologies, sensor/actuator systems, social media networks, online advertising, distributed data processing, neural networks, machine learning, big data analysis, financial services (e.g., mobile payment, smart cards), video and audio encoding, block chain, digital currency (e.g., Bitcoin), medical devices (e.g., imaging systems, minimally invasive surgical tools), and agtech.

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    Graham Topa is a corporate lawyer with a keen interest in advising startups and emerging companies, including those in the media and technology sector...

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    Graham Topa

    Graham Topa

    Partner

    Graham Topa

    Graham is a Partner at Aird & Berlis LLP. He is a Director of the Startups practice and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Finance Group.

    Graham advises startups and emerging companies, including those in the media and technology sectors, with respect to corporate structure, governance, financing and technology licensing and commercialization. Graham also regularly acts as counsel to venture capital funds, banks and other institution investors with respect to venture capital (debt and private equity), secured lending, senior and subordinated/mezzanine financings, and asset and share sale transactions.

Intellectual Property

A&B’s intellectual property lawyers and patent agents help innovation-sector clients capitalize on their most important assets. They help emerging and established clients (ranging from individual inventors to startups to Fortune 100 companies) secure and enforce IP rights, deal with technology transfer challenges, avoid conflicts and bring new ideas to market.

For more information about our Intellectual Property Team,  click here.

Technology

A&B’s Technology team finds leading-edge solutions for innovative companies, with demonstrated expertise navigating legal problems for clients in the hardware, software, cloud computing and biotech verticals.

Click here for more information about A&B’s Technology Team.

Full-Service Expertise

A&B provides practical, full-service advice with a focus on efficiency and commercialization. Experts in in privacy, tax, employment, litigation, finance, lending, M&A and other key legal areas are available to help growth companies expand their business painlessly. No matter what legal challenges lie ahead, A&B has business-focused counsel available to help your company grow.

For more information about Aird & Berlis LLP, visit the firm’s website.

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