Eric focuses on technology law, and is ranked as one of Canada's top technology lawyers by the foremost legal rankings publications.
He has extensive international and Canadian experience advising on complex commercial transactions, including:
- technology and business process outsourcings
- fintech and new payment technologies
- mergers and acquisitions
Eric also has significant expertise in:
- financial services
- intellectual property
- e-commerce
- cloud services
- privacy
- open source software
- trademark and patent licensing
- manufacturing
- export controls
- consumer protection issues
Eric is also a registered Canadian trademark agent.
Fluent in French, he has practised with an international law firm in Paris, France, as well as in Toronto.
Experience
- PayBright Inc., one of Canada’s leading buy-now-pay-later providers, in connection with its $340 million acquisition by Affirm, Inc., a leading U.S.-based “buy now, pay later” platform.
- Virtu Financial (NASDAQ: VIRT), a leading provider of financial services and products that leverages cutting-edge technology, in its sale of MATCHNow marketplace to Cboe Global Markets.
- Represents and advises financial institutions and other financial services providers with respect to payment cards, outsourcing, reward programs, prepaid and white label payment cards, and payments systems matters.
- Advises clients with respect to new mobile and online financial products and services including partnerships with financial institutions, FinTech organizations and other new and innovative financial services developments.
- Represents financial institutions, telecommunications providers and major media companies in the procurement and negotiation of some of the largest outsourcing transactions in Canada.
- Advises major grocery and clothing retailers on large-scale warehousing, robotics and logistics.
- Negotiates international supply, export and manufacturing arrangements, including relating to smart cards, green technology and the automotive industry, and notably involving service providers and suppliers in India, China and Latin America.
- Advises clients on licensing software, patents and trademarks; also counsels clients on introduction and exploitation of new products and services, including in the areas of business intelligence, green technology and cloud computing.
- Lead counsel for The Beer Store in a long-term year, multi-million dollar outsourcing contract with CGI for the IT infrastructure for The Beer Store and its affiliates and distribution centres.
- Lead counsel for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its outsourcing agreement with IBM Canada for IBM to assume responsibility for the management, operation, support and maintenance of CPPIB's technology infrastructure.
- Lead counsel for a subsidiary of a major Canadian bank in its acquisition of private label credit card portfolios, and the launch of several private label credit and loyalty card programs.
- Lead counsel for The Bank of Nova Scotia in the negotiation of a sponsorship agreement with the Calgary Flames for the branding of the Scotiabank Saddledome.
- Lead counsel for a Canadian chartered bank on various offshore outsourcing arrangements for information systems, application support and maintenance, and call centre operations.
- Lead counsel for a business process outsourcing provider in its seven-year agreement for credit card services for a major chartered bank.
- Lead counsel for a leading smart card manufacturer in its manufacturing, distribution and development agreements with suppliers in China, Malaysia and Mexico.
- Lead counsel for The Beer Store in the procurement of a multi-million-dollar customized robotic inventory management system for its primary western Canada distribution centre.
- Lead counsel for Rogers Communications as co-counsel in all facets of the drafting and negotiation of its competitive procurement for a seven-year contract for transformative datacentre technology services.
- Lead counsel for Scotia Capital in various agreements relating to the development of a new fixed income market platform.
- Lead counsel for The Bank of Nova Scotia in an agreement with The Western Union Company for the offering of money-transfer services to Scotiabank customers in Canada.
- Lead counsel for Thomson Reuters, The Globe and Mail and Carswell in various publication, manufacturing and technology services agreements.
- Lead counsel for several foreign banks in various technology agreements in connection with the launch of operations and branches in Canada.
- Lead counsel for a national insurance company in a white label insurance distribution agreement.
- Lead counsel for a major Canadian department store in its agreements for business intelligence software and transformational IT projects.
- PayBright Inc., one of Canada’s leading buy-now-pay-later providers, in connection with its $340 million acquisition by Affirm, Inc., a leading U.S.-based “buy now, pay later” platform.
- Virtu Financial (NASDAQ: VIRT), a leading provider of financial services and products that leverages cutting-edge technology, in its sale of MATCHNow marketplace to Cboe Global Markets.
- Represents and advises financial institutions and other financial services providers with respect to payment cards, outsourcing, reward programs, prepaid and white label payment cards, and payments systems matters.
- Advises clients with respect to new mobile and online financial products and services including partnerships with financial institutions, FinTech organizations and other new and innovative financial services developments.
- Represents financial institutions, telecommunications providers and major media companies in the procurement and negotiation of some of the largest outsourcing transactions in Canada.
- Advises major grocery and clothing retailers on large-scale warehousing, robotics and logistics.
- Negotiates international supply, export and manufacturing arrangements, including relating to smart cards, green technology and the automotive industry, and notably involving service providers and suppliers in India, China and Latin America.
- Advises clients on licensing software, patents and trademarks; also counsels clients on introduction and exploitation of new products and services, including in the areas of business intelligence, green technology and cloud computing.
- Lead counsel for The Beer Store in a long-term year, multi-million dollar outsourcing contract with CGI for the IT infrastructure for The Beer Store and its affiliates and distribution centres.
- Lead counsel for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its outsourcing agreement with IBM Canada for IBM to assume responsibility for the management, operation, support and maintenance of CPPIB's technology infrastructure.
- Lead counsel for a subsidiary of a major Canadian bank in its acquisition of private label credit card portfolios, and the launch of several private label credit and loyalty card programs.
- Lead counsel for The Bank of Nova Scotia in the negotiation of a sponsorship agreement with the Calgary Flames for the branding of the Scotiabank Saddledome.
- Lead counsel for a Canadian chartered bank on various offshore outsourcing arrangements for information systems, application support and maintenance, and call centre operations.
- Lead counsel for a business process outsourcing provider in its seven-year agreement for credit card services for a major chartered bank.
- Lead counsel for a leading smart card manufacturer in its manufacturing, distribution and development agreements with suppliers in China, Malaysia and Mexico.
- Lead counsel for The Beer Store in the procurement of a multi-million-dollar customized robotic inventory management system for its primary western Canada distribution centre.
- Lead counsel for Rogers Communications as co-counsel in all facets of the drafting and negotiation of its competitive procurement for a seven-year contract for transformative datacentre technology services.
- Lead counsel for Scotia Capital in various agreements relating to the development of a new fixed income market platform.
- Lead counsel for The Bank of Nova Scotia in an agreement with The Western Union Company for the offering of money-transfer services to Scotiabank customers in Canada.
- Lead counsel for Thomson Reuters, The Globe and Mail and Carswell in various publication, manufacturing and technology services agreements.
- Lead counsel for several foreign banks in various technology agreements in connection with the launch of operations and branches in Canada.
- Lead counsel for a national insurance company in a white label insurance distribution agreement.
- Lead counsel for a major Canadian department store in its agreements for business intelligence software and transformational IT projects.
