WHAT WE DO

From governance and stakeholder relations to funding and technology transfer, Canada’s educational institutions face a number of unique challenges. Whether large or small, public or private, schools, colleges and universities require legal services across a number of disciplines.

STRATEGIC ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION

As a national law firm offering a full range of legal and IP services, Gowlings is well-positioned to meet the needs of educational institution administrations as well as those of their faculty and students, general counsel, and researchers and innovators. Understanding the complexities of Canada’s educational landscape, our professionals offer strategic advice and creative solutions to clients across the country. In addition, Gowlings lawyers, patent and trade-mark agents are leaders in IP management and have decades of experience working with university technology transfer and liaison offices.

THE EXPERTISE YOU NEED

Our professionals possess expertise in:

• Protection, licensing-out and commercialization of intellectual property
• Governance issues such as by-laws, ethics compliance, conflicts of interest guidelines for employees and board officers, student association issues and legal issues relating to volunteers
• Co-ventures, licences, public-private partnerships and funding agreements
• Labour and employment matters including contract arbitration, managing senior appointments, and advising on pay equity and benefit programs
• Investment and financial matters such as securities, pension funds, debt financing and structuring, and management of donations
• Dispute management
• Real estate and leasing matters including those relating to research facilities, recreational amenities and the leasing of off-campus space
• Tax issues
• Environmental compliance including risk assessments
• Privacy and security issues
• Infrastructure