About the author

AuthorFrank Zaid
ProfessionSenior Partner Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Pages453-453
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frank Zaid is a senior partner in the Toronto off‌ice of Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP. He has served as a member of the f‌irm’s Executive Com-
mittee. He practises business law with an emphasis on franchising, li-
censing, intellectual proper ty, marketing and distribution law and i s head
of the f‌irm’s Franchise & Distribution Law Group. His practice focuses
on advising franchisors, franchisee associations and others involved in
franchising on all aspects of Canadian franchise legal matters. He has
served as Chair of the Supplier Forum of the International Franchise
Association, and is the Past General Counsel of the Canadian Franchise
Association. He has written, spoken, been interviewed and acted as an
expert witness on franchise matters on numerous occasions.
Frank has been listed as one of the leading franchise law practi-
tioners in every published edition of the Can adian Legal Lexpert Direc-
tory, the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers
in Canada, and the Inter national Who’s Who of Franchise Lawyers. He
was also liste d as one of the twenty-two most highly regarded franchise
lawyers in the world in the 20 05 edition of Who’s Who Legal, a reference
published annually by L aw Business Research Ltd. of London, UK. The
same publication named him the most highly-nominated practitioner
outside of the United States.
In 2002 he was appointed a Co-Chair of the Uniform Law Confer-
ence of Canada Commercial Law Strategy project on a uniform fran-
chise law. Completed in August, 2005, this project has developed a
model uniform franchise law for all of the provinces and territories of
Canada.
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