My extensive experience and insatiable appetite for learningensure that I quickly grasp my clients’ needs, understand the issues at hand, and find concrete solutions.
Amir Kashdaran is a lawyer with over 15 years of experience in commercial, transactional, corporate and technology law. He offers his clients legal service relating to all aspects of information technology and security matters. Throughout his career, he has had the opportunity to act as counsel on complex commercial transactions as well as deal with intellectual property matters, cross-border transactions, enterprise licensing, cloud outsourcing, and software implementation and integration services. Over the course of his career, he has provided support to a diverse clientele, ranging from SMEs to multinationals. His clients operate in various industries and sectors, namely FinTech, AdTech, MedTech, LegalTech, gaming, and others.
Amir has worked for many years as General Counsel in a high-tech company with a global footprint where he managed the legal department and provided legal services such as dealing with complex commercial contracts with Fortune 500 organizations, global strategic partnerships, master services agreements and professional services, SaaS agreements, managed services, support services and SLA’s, software development contracts, and more. As a legal executive and head of the legal department, he also managed all aspects of global legal operations, such as management of lawyers and support staff, budget and expenses, corporate policies, corporate compliance, maintenance, and governance, and business process improvement.
Finally, Amir combines his management and leadership skills with his legal expertise to mentor small and medium-sized businesses helping them scale and grow their business and acts as Industry Expert for non-profit organizations.
Amir began his career with Computershare Trust Company of Canada (formerly Montreal Trust Company of Canada) where he represented private and public entities in connection with private placements, corporate financing transactions, escrow agreements, corporate bond issuances and many other corporate legal matters.
Prior to joining Delegatus, he was responsible for global legal operations from a functional and operational perspective as the General Counsel of a global software company in the FinTech and Human Capital Management space. Amir has also been mentoring numerous small and medium-sized businesses with national and international projects for several years through Startup Montreal.
Prior to his role as General Counsel, Amir represented numerous tech-companies in civil, commercial and business law in private practice for nearly a decade. In this context, he represented his clients on various matters relating to corporate financing, commercial transactions, shareholder disputes, and dispute resolution mandates.