George Takach recalls cringing one day when he landed in Toronto’s Pearson International Airport after a trip to Sweden. Stockholm’s airport had been lined with displays touting Swedish industrial achievements, he says. The Pearson airport emphasized Canada as a tourist getaway: “blank gray walls, and a video showing a bush plane landing on a lake, with a backdrop of trees and rocks,” says Takach, a veteran technology partner at McCarthy Tétrault, one of Canada’s largest firms.
Takach is among the most senior of a circle of lawyers who are advising, facilitating and cheering on Canada’s resurgent—if sometimes overlooked—tech industry. Many of those lawyers cut their teeth in the 1990s, when a previous generation of Canadian tech companies, including telecom giant Nortel Networks Corporation and smartphone maker Research In Motion Ltd. (now known as BlackBerry Ltd.), first put Canada on the map for world-class electronics, networking and mobile technology. Now, more than a decade after the dot-com crash ended that boom, a new generation of tech startups is flowering across Canada—and keeping lawyers busy [see "New Kids on the Block," page 58].
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