Christian Steven Tacit

Drawing on decades of technical, business and legal experience, Chris is the founder of Tacit Law.

Chris’s most significant practice areas include corporate law, corporate governance, commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and other commercial transactions, communications law, information technology law, intellectual property law, Internet governance and not-for-profit law.

Chris’s past professional experience includes holding a senior executive role in a publicly-traded company, being a partner in a major regional law firm and working in a national law firm. Prior to practicing law, he held various engineering and managerial positions in the private sector.

Chris was called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in 1987 and has also been a member of the Bar of British Columbia since 2017. In addition to being a lawyer, he holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa, a P.Eng. designation from the Professional Engineers of Ontario, and the Institute of Corporate Governance’s ICD.D designation.

Chris has served on a number of boards and is also very involved in Internet governance through various volunteer activities.