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Navigating Canada's health care system can be a challenge for those who provide, fund and regulate health care. Across the sector, we help our clients identify, understand and progress along the right pathways to meet their objectives.
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Overview

More options, shorter wait times and lower costs are all important to patients. At the same time, healthcare providers strive to play a bigger role by bridging gaps in the system and innovating.

Healthcare is a profession. It is also a business. The Fasken team understands the unique context of our clients, who need to meet patient expectations and ever expanding regulatory requirements under a constrained funding system.

 

What distinguishes Fasken is our large, cross-Canada team. Our lawyers have deep experience and trusted relationships with a wide range of health sector clients in each of our regional markets, as well as national-level expertise. We share ideas and collaborate with clients wherever and whenever we can.

 

We help with governance, outsourcing, structuring, privacy, employment, and technology matters. If disputes arise, we’ll represent your organization before tribunals or in court.

 

Our clients include private and public health sector organizations as well as non-profits.

 

Subscribe to our “Health Law Bulletin”, browse some of the recent healthcare work we’ve assisted with or contact any of our lawyers to learn more.


Meet the challenges of contemporary healthcare with one of the most widely experienced legal teams in Canada. 

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancillary Revenue - Social Enterprise, We help clients navigate the intersecting regulations, guidelines, directives and policies that govern these activities, creating practical business structures and collaborating with clients and other stakeholder to create innovative solutions.
  • E-health, Dynamic innovations are great, but they are accompanied by legal issues. Fasken understands the telemedicine industry. We work with e-health users, providers and stakeholders including Canada Health Infoway and other leaders.
  • Health Care Charities and Not-For-Profits, Fasken has a unique and long history of helping health care charities and not-for profits build the right foundations for success.
  • Health Care Facilities, Working with boards, administration, committees and management, we advise facilities on a host of daily legal issues and long-term strategies to meet stakeholder needs.
  • Health Organization Governance, We provide “next-level” services, such as governance reviews, restructuring advice, strategic planning and training.
  • Health Policy & Regulation, Fasken assists with policy development, whether it’s internal to an institution: writing conventions, rules, directives or applicable to the entire system: policy papers, submissions to parliamentary committees, etc. We also determine the practical application of regulations and structure efficient compliance and reporting processes.
  • Healthcare Regulatory Colleges, We represent clients in interactions with professional colleges across the country, including those overseeing dentists, audiologists, speech pathologists, chiropractors, massage therapists, opticians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, physicians and surgeons.
  • Medical Legal, Fasken takes a practical approach to complex issues. Apart from analyzing how case law and current regulations apply, we can work with you to sort out the aspects of your specific problem and all its component parts.
  • Privacy & Access to Information in Health, Fasken can provide advice on all aspects of federal and provincial privacy and freedom of information legislation. We were the lead authors of the Ontario Hospital Association’s Hospital Freedom of Information (FOI) Toolkit: A Guide to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and regularly work with clients to embed privacy-by-design into their operations.
  • Private Health Care, Fasken helps clients navigate the complexities of consumer-based medicine, addressing legal, political, practical and ethical issues as options are investigated and ventures are formed.
  • Shared Services in Health, Fasken has almost two decades of experience creating shared service arrangements and working with clients to launch groundbreaking agreements across Canada.

Achievements

Team

Primary Contacts
  • Lynne Golding, Partner | CO-LEADER, HEALTH LAW GROUP, Toronto, ON, +1 416 865 5166, lgolding@fasken.com
  • Laurie M. Turner, Partner | CO-LEADER, HEALTH LAW GROUP, Toronto, ON, +1 416 868 3446, lturner@fasken.com
  • Karen Wyke, Partner | Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Calgary, AB, +1 403 261 5357, kwyke@fasken.com
  • Mathieu Gagné, Partner | Co-Leader, Life Sciences, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 7657, mgagne@fasken.com
  • Shahrooz Nabavi, Partner | Co-Leader, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4910, snabavi@fasken.com

Client Work

  • CanPrev Natural Health Products Ltd. completes sale of business to Apotex Inc., [Deal - CanPrev Natural Health Products Ltd.], Leading natural health company acquired by Canada’s largest pharmaceutical company.
  • CWB Maxium Financial Inc. provides financing for Grey Wolf Animal Health Corp.'s C$22.5 million acquisition of The Compounding Pharmacy of Manitoba, [Deal - CWB Maxium Financial Inc.], CWB Maxium Financial Inc. provided acquisition financing to Grey Wolf Animal Health Corp. to facilitate its C$22.5 million acquisition of The Compounding Pharmacy of Manitoba.
  • MedStack Inc. completes asset sale to Launchit Solutions Inc., [Deal - MedStack], Leader in global healthcare compliance infrastructure completes sale of assets to pioneering health technology studio.
  • VetCare acquires Amherst Veterinary Hospital, [Deal - VetCare Canada Holdings Inc.], Acquisition in veterinary industry
  • VetCare acquires Pickering Animal Hospital, [Deal - VetCare Canada Holdings Inc.], Acquisition in veterinary industry
  • Ability Biologics closes its US$18 million seed funding round, [Deal - Ability Biologics], Ability Biologics closes seed funding round.
  • HealWELL AI Inc. wins summary hearing at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, [Case - HEALWELL AI Inc.], Canadian healthcare company successfully defends against Ontario Human Rights Tribunal application.
  • Humber River Health successful in upholding mandatory vaccination policy, [Case - Humber River Health], Grievance challenging Humber River Hospital’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.
  • Kardium raises USD $104 million financing round, [Deal - Kardium Inc.], New private financing round in Technology industry

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