
Civil Law · Ontario, Canada
Lawyer · Eunomia Law Professional Corporation · Ottawa
Laura founded Eunomia Law in order to bring her unique practice background to multiple clients for a more flexible in-house experience. She strives to provide the professionalism of a law firm together with a critical and deep understanding of her clients. At the heart of this are the personal relationships that are key to providing the best advice and outcomes.
After working in Ottawa high tech for years at Corel Corporation and Hemera Technologies, Laura decided to pursue a law degree. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2005.
Ottawa, Ontario. Associate with a focus on commercial and IP litigation, transactional law and regulatory advocacy.
Commercial Counsel for the Software and Technology Licensing team, supporting R&D, incoming and outgoing licensing, hardware manufacturing and interoperability testing groups
Laura joined WiLAN as senior legal counsel to the business, specializing in patent transactions, namely patent acquisitions, sales and complicated licensing transactions. Of note, she structured and negotiated a unique patent framework and subscription transaction with TSMC .
Laura was promoted to Senior VP Legal in charge of WiLAN’s legal department, managing core transactions for the business, overseeing internal processes around patent litigations, advising on contractual disputes, providing strategy and analysis for licensing defenses to infringement, giving advice on general regulatory compliance, handling corporate compliance for 70+ subsidiaries, advising on employment matters, and ultimately structuring the due diligence and supporting the sale of WiLAN as a going concern to U.S. private equity in 2023.