About the author

• Author: George Takach
• Profession: Adjunct Professor
• Pages: 757-758

George S. Takach is a Toronto-based partner of McCarthy Tétrault,

where he is National Practice Group Leader of the Technology, Com-

munications and Intellectual Property Group. George’s practice empha-

sizes software, computers, technology, tech financing/tech M&A, and

related matters. A recent nationwide survey conducted by Lexpert, a

peer review-based law directory publisher, ranked George among a

handful of leading lawyers in Canada in the computer law field. This

survey also found McCarthy Tétrault to have the strongest computer

law practice in Canada.

Since 1990 George has been an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall

Law School, York University, teaching a course titled “Computers,

Information, and the Law.” George has a BA (Hons.) in political econ-

omy from the University of Toronto; the third year of this degree was

completed at the Institut d’Études Politique, Université d’Aix-Mar-

seilles, France. He also has an MA in international relations from the

Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

in Ottawa. He earned his JD from the Faculty of Law, University of

Toronto, where he graduated on the Dean’s List.

What spare time George has he spends with the two women in his

life: his wife, Janis, and their daughter, Natalie. They especially enjoy

skiing and travelling together.

McCarthy Tétrault is Canada’s premier law firm with more than

eight hundred lawyers in offices in Vancouver, Calgary, London, Toron-

to, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, and London, England. The firm pro-

About the Author