Profession: Business Lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Education:
B.Sc.,
McGill University, 1978
B.C.L., McGill University, 1981
LL.B., McGill University, 1982
Admitted to Ontario
Bar, 1984
Areas of Practice
Chris Koressis is Canadian business lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 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,
Ontario. Prior to that, he was Senior Counsel at Geac Computer Corporation (acquired by Infor) and a member of the company's worldwide mergers and acquisitions team. Prior to Geac, Chris Koressis led the information
technology law team of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ( CIBC) 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,
Chris 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, Chris Koressis was Legal Advisor-Contracts for Royal Bank of Canada and prior to that he worked for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General as a legal advisor to the Chief Judge of the District Court of Ontario (now called the Ontario Court of Justice) in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
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
Telephone: 416.720.1624
Email: chris.koressis@koressis.com
