Chris Koressis is the founder of the firm and a Canadian business lawyer.
He specializes in business law, including: drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including mergers and acquisitions
and international agreements between companies and their customers, suppliers, licensors, joint venture partners, and distributors;
information technology law; purchasing & procurement law including drafting Requests for Proposals for the procurement
of a broad range of products and services and participating in the analysis of proposals from suppliers and selecting suppliers;
drafting corporate policies for business conduct; serving as corporate secretary and advising corporate officers and directors
on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters; directing and overseeing the use of external counsel.
If the nature of your legal matter requires a multi-disciplinary team or other legal services such as
civil litigation, Chris Koressis will select and lead the team, after you have approved it. He will select lawyers who, like
himself, have both legal and business expertise within industry. The depth of this kind of experience will provide you with
the most effective and efficient legal advice and the results that you require. Chris Koressis has the right contacts among
business law firms that are available to assist Chris Koressis when it is necessary to have a team of business lawyers to serve the needs of
his clients. If he is retained to manage the work assigned to other business lawyers, Chris Koressis will assume prime contractor
status and overall responsibility for your legal strategy. And he will ensure that your objectives are achieved effectively
and efficiently.Before going into private practice, Chris Koressis was a partner at a large business law firm based in Toronto.
Prior to that, he was Senior Counsel at Geac Computer Corporation (now Infor) and a member of the company's worldwide mergers
and acquisitions team. Prior to Geac, Chris Koressis led CIBC’s technology law department as Senior Counsel and he also
served as Director, Strategic Sourcing reporting to the Chief Purchasing Officer and assisting in the management of the bank's
worldwide procurement of information technology, corporate services and products. In addition, he led a task force on the
legal and business issues associated with electronic commerce and Internet business strategies. This facilitated the implementation
of CIBC’s information technology strategy and helped it to exploit trends and opportunities in the marketplace.
Before CIBC, he was Legal Advisor-Contracts for Royal Bank of Canada and prior to that he was a legal
advisor to the Chief Judge of the District Court of Ontario in Toronto.
Chris Koressis received a Bachelor of Science,
Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Laws from McGill University in Canada and was called to the bar in Toronto, Ontario
in 1984.
Chris Koressis has practical, hands-on experience on the legal and business issues that are vital to the success
of any company. He offers his clients a 5 point guarantee: Better Access; Faster Service; Plain Language; Less Paper; Integrity
& Candid Legal Advice.
Chris Koressis Koressis Legal Professional Corporation Toronto Telephone: 416.720.1624
Montreal Telephone: 514.435.0359 Chris.Koressis@Koressis.com
