About the author

• Author: Frank Zaid
• Profession: Senior Partner Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
• Pages: 453-453

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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