About Gary
Gary Bouchard, Barrister and Solicitor, is the owner and principal of Gary Bouchard Business & Technology Law. Gary is recognized as one of Canada’s premier technology and business lawyers.
Law Expertise
Gary has acquired particular expertise in numerous industries and markets during his 35-year legal career, including information technology and communications, outsourcing, e-commerce, biotechnology and medical devices, gaming, homeland security, and petrochemical distribution. Through the firm, he delivers strategic counsel in numerous areas of law and business, such as corporate/commercial law, intellectual property portfolio protection and commercialization, privacy and data protection, employment, consulting and human capital contracting matters, and alternative dispute resolution.
Career & Experience
Gary's legal career began as a contract specialist for the logistics and procurement subsidiary of one of Canada’s largest automated light rail transit manufacturers, where he was responsible for drafting and negotiating complex technology and EPC related matters. Gary has also held a number of senior legal counsel positions in some of Canada's largest corporations. He was Corporate Counsel and Secretary to Kellogg Canada Inc., Legal Counsel and Assistant Secretary to ISM Information Management Systems (one of Canada’s largest outsourcing companies) and Legal Counsel to International Semi-Tech Microelectronics Inc., one of Canada's largest consumer products companies and parent company to several multinational corporations, including The Singer Company.
Gary has also been a senior partner at two of Canada’s large Toronto-based law firms, where he headed up the technology law practice groups for both of those firms. Gary also directed investment banking activities at one of these firms, where he identified and managed the firm’s investments in certain technology based businesses. He has also acted as a litigator for the largest poverty law clinic in Ottawa, Ontario, where he appeared before various courts, boards, and tribunals.
Gary is a Member of The Law Society of Ontario and past member of the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Licensing Executives Society. Gary also serves as an Arbitrator for the United Nations’ WIPO domain name dispute resolution process, and as arbitrator and High and New Technology arbitrator for the South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.
Education & Publishing
Gary attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he studied biological sciences and anthropology, and graduated with an LL.B. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
Gary has been quoted as a technology law authority in the Globe and Mail, The National Post, and in various Canadian magazines and journals. He has also published articles in Corporate Counsel magazine and for the International Lawyers Network, and was the lead author of the Canadian chapter of World Online Business Law (2003, Oceana Publications, Inc., N.Y.).
