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Smart & Biggar
Director and Financial Adviser
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WINNER:
IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year
winner:
IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year
Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading law firm for intellectual property. With over 100 lawyers, patent agents, and trademark agents across five offices, we are the largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas, and we file more patent and trademark applications than any other firm in Canada.
Our clients are among the world’s most important and high-profile innovators and brand owners, who choose us for our comprehensive IP expertise, high quality of advisory services, and unmatched bench strength and track record of success in IP litigation.
We harness our 130 years of experience in intellectual property, combined with deep knowledge and unparalleled expertise across a wide range of technologies and industries, to provide our valued clients with advice and clarity on opportunities and solutions to protect their innovations and strategically maximize IP for business growth.
We specialize in asserting and defending our clients’ IP assets to maximize their return on investments and preserve competitive advantage. Intellectual property rights – from patents, industrial designs, and trademarks, to trade secrets, confidential information, and copyrights – are critical business assets that need to be aggressively protected and enforced.
Trusted by the world’s leading companies and innovators, we know what it takes to win in high-stakes litigation, and we routinely handle Canada’s most commercially important and technically complex intellectual property cases. Our lawyers possess a rare combination of successful trial and appellate experience combined with a deeply sophisticated understanding of technical subject matter and analytical expertise – resulting in victories at all levels.
From startup companies in emerging growth sectors to multinational corporations across a broad range of industries, we draw on our vast technical and legal experience to provide creative, , and cost-efficient enforcement and litigation strategies tailored to each client’s unique situation and needs.
Smart & Biggar proudly operates as part of the IPH Limited group, under its own brand and independent from other IPH member firms.
www.smartbiggar.ca
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info@smartbiggar.ca
613.232.2486
Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver
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Director and Financial Adviser
winner:
IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year
Smart & Biggar
Erin Crawford
Partner
Matthew Zischka
Managing Director
Matthew Zischka is the managing director at Smart & Biggar. With over 20 years of experience in patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation support, he leads the firm’s principals and management team, driving business success and supporting Smart & Biggar’s innovative clients in Canada and around the world.
Managing Director
Matthew Zischka
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Matthew Zischka
Managing Director
Erin Crawford
Partner
Leadership
Heather Hansen is a partner at McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP. She is a Certified Specialist (C.S.) in Family Law by the Law Society of Ontario, a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
Heather represents and advises clients on all issues related to divorce, spousal and child support, division of property, separation agreements, domestic/marriage contracts, religious marriage contracts, parenting issues, child protection, and cross-border/international family law issues (including Hague Convention matters).
Partner
Heather Hansen
Erin’s practice is focused on the representation of clients with complex and diverse financial matters arising from separation and divorce, including issues relating to family trusts, privately held companies and other sophisticated property and income issues. She acts to provide advice on marriage contracts and cohabitation agreements, as well as having an active litigation practice in both the court system and in mediation/arbitration. Erin has practiced exclusively in the area of family law since her call to the Ontario bar in 2003.
Partner
Erin Crawford
@BuddyMortgages
Heather Hansen
Partner
Heather Hansen is a partner at McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP. She is a Certified Specialist (C.S.) in Family Law by the Law Society of Ontario, a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
Heather represents and advises clients on all issues related to divorce, spousal and child support, division of property, separation agreements, domestic/marriage contracts, religious marriage contracts, parenting issues, child protection, and cross-border/international family law issues (including Hague Convention matters).
Partner
Heather Hansen
Heather Hansen
Partner
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Karen MacMillan
Partner
Erin Crawford
Partner
Matthew Zischka
Managing Director
Leadership
Heather Hansen is a partner at McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP. She is a Certified Specialist (C.S.) in Family Law by the Law Society of Ontario, a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
Heather represents and advises clients on all issues related to divorce, spousal and child support, division of property, separation agreements, domestic/marriage contracts, religious marriage contracts, parenting issues, child protection, and cross-border/international family law issues (including Hague Convention matters).
Partner
Heather Hansen
Erin’s practice is focused on the representation of clients with complex and diverse financial matters arising from separation and divorce, including issues relating to family trusts, privately held companies and other sophisticated property and income issues. She acts to provide advice on marriage contracts and cohabitation agreements, as well as having an active litigation practice in both the court system and in mediation/arbitration. Erin has practiced exclusively in the area of family law since her call to the Ontario bar in 2003.
Partner
Erin Crawford
Matthew Zischka is the managing director at Smart & Biggar. With over 20 years of experience in patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation support, he leads the firm’s principals and management team, driving business success and supporting Smart & Biggar’s innovative clients in Canada and around the world.
Managing Director
Matthew Zischka
Erin’s practice is focused on the representation of clients with complex and diverse financial matters arising from separation and divorce, including issues relating to family trusts, privately held companies and other sophisticated property and income issues. She acts to provide advice on marriage contracts and cohabitation agreements, as well as having an active litigation practice in both the court system and in mediation/arbitration. Erin has practiced exclusively in the area of family law since her call to the Ontario bar in 2003.
Partner
Erin Crawford
Matthew Zischka is the managing director at Smart & Biggar. With over 20 years of experience in patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation support, he leads the firm’s principals and management team, driving business success and supporting Smart & Biggar’s innovative clients in Canada and around the world.
Managing Director
Matthew Zischka
@McCarthyHansen