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34 M A Y 2 0 1 6 w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m Top 10 Corporate law boutiques BAX Securities Law Toronto baxsecuritieslaw.com Boyle & Co. LLP Toronto boyleco.com Barbara Hendrickson formed BAX Securities Law in 2012. Hendrickson is a senior securities lawyer with more than 20 years experience amassed from working with the Ontario Securities Commission, a leading Canadian national firm, and one of the world's largest international law firms. BAX has a national and cross-border focus and offers securities law services to its clients operating in the real estate and commodities (carbon, energy, and minerals) sectors. It specializes in online offering platforms including crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending, and acts for real estate syndicators, and carbon and energy brokerage firms. Hendrickson acted for Canada's first online equity crowdfunding firm as well as Canada's only peer-to-peer lending platform. Her firm also acts for aboriginal communities, providing advice in the economic development area. BAX offers fixed fees to clients, and is able to meet its fee obligations by "staffing" files with senior lawyers who have their own independent practices in the securities and related business law areas, and who tend to work in lower-overhead contexts. Punching above its weight since 2003, Boyle & Co. LLP practises securities law exclusively. Now slimmed down to three lawyers, many Bay Street securities departments contain Boyle & Co. LLP-trained alumni. Founding and designing the market and regulatory models of the Canadian Securities Exchange, pioneering Canada's first Internet offering, name partner Jim Boyle is the go-to guy for innovative and creative entrepreneurs and capital market veter- ans alike. The firm says it's big in the medical marijuana space both for issuers like TSX Venture-listed PharmaCan Capital Corp. (MJN-X) and for dealers including top-tier investment boutique M Partners Inc. Boyle & Co. also acts for hedge funds, investment counsel, and portfolio managers such as top-performing StableView Asset Management Inc., biotech issuers, mineral explorers, gold producers, oil and gas exploration and production companies, and new technology companies such as world-leading gesture control technology developer GestureTek Systems. Untitled-7 1 2016-04-13 3:41 PM