Biographical notes for C. Ian Kyer

Contributing Editor, Corporate Financing (CFinancing) 1999–

Speaker, "Protecting Directors and Officers Against Emerging Liabilities" D and O: Emerging Liabilities Session, Corporate Summit, Toronto, December 3-5, 1996

"Buying a Closely Held Information Technology (IT) Company" (1998) 5 CFinancing 27

"A Primer on Investing in the Canadian Telecommunications Industry" (1999) 6 CFinancing 342

Born 24 March 1949

Educated University of Waterloo B.A. 1972, M.A. 1973; University of Toronto Ph.D. (History) 1979 (Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship), LL.B. 1980

Partner and Director of the Computer and Technology Law Group, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

Called to the Bar of Ontario 1982

President, Canadian IT Law Association

Life Member and past President, Computer Law Association, Inc.

Member, Osgoode Society (Canadian Legal History)

Former Provincial Secretary and Honourary Secretary and Treasurer for Canada, Selden Society (Legal History)

Member, International Bar Association Committee R (Computers, Electronic Technology and Data Flow); American Bar Association Science and Technology Section; Toronto Computer Lawyers Group (past Executive Member); Licensing Executives Society; Canadian Bar Association

Frequent speaker on computer-related legal issues and organizer of computer law conferences

Editorial Board Member, several computer law publications including the Oxford Journal of Law and Technology (U.K.) and the Computer Law Strategist (U.S.A.)

Co-Author, Computer-Related Agreements: A Practical Guide (Butterworths 1993); The Fiercest Debate (Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press 1987)

Co-Editor, The CLA Computer Law Companion (Volumes I-IV, 1994-97)

Author or Co-Author, over 40 published articles and book chapters dealing with legal issues; several articles dealing with historical issues published in periodicals and dictionaries

Mr. Kyer practises corporate commercial law with an emphasis on telecommunications, computer and other high-technology-related transactions. He is principally involved in advising buyers and sellers of computer telecommunication assets and services and hardware and software on computer acquisitions and on computer-related legal transactions and disputes.