Case Studies

Blakes Ventures understands that efficiency and managing costs are important for our venture capital and emerging company clients. To these ends, it worked with our Innovation team to automate the creation of custom term sheets, side letters and diligence requests for a client’s ongoing investments.

Blakes regularly assists various mining clients on transactions involving many mineral and land tenures. Our deal team, led by Partner Charles Kazaz, was determined to find a more efficient way to obtain the high volume of mining claim abstracts that must be reviewed as part of each transaction and to streamline the due diligence process for those documents.

As part of a large reorganization project, a multinational client retained Blakes to assist it in assigning licensing agreements to a single corporate entity. Given the success of the original mandate, the client expanded the project and had Blakes use the same solution to complete a broader review of its licensing agreements for key legal and business terms.

A major Canadian bank engaged Blakes to advise on a complex commercial agreement with an important partner, a type of matter that can be difficult to budget.

A frequent pain point for many investor clients is the review of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). NDAs can be time sensitive, repetitive and take up excessive time and resources from our clients’ in-house legal teams.

When an online retailer launched in Canada, it needed an efficient way to stay informed about changing laws and regulations. Our online portal delivered expert commentary from a multi-disciplinary team of top-tier lawyers.

Blakes is constantly innovating to ensure clients protect their reputations and their customers’ private data in the most efficient and cost-effective way, before or after a breach.

When capacity issues hit the legal department of a major bank, contacting a national law firm for help wasn’t their first thought. But an innovation-infused proposal for improved efficiency convinced them otherwise.