Corporate Finance & Securities
Senior lawyers providing assistance to financial services and capital markets clients
Overview
BAX Securities Law® has direct experience dealing with Canadian securities and financial services regulatory bodies including the Ontario Securities Commission, the British Columbia Securities Commission and other Canadian regulatory authorities.
BAX Securities Law® is one of Toronto’s leading capital markets boutique law firms. Our experience includes innovative products and structures in the proptech, fintech, debt and crypto spaces, with a focus on completing private and public capital raising and assisting cross border and international clients to successfully access the Canadian capital markets as will as with a broad range of ongoing disclosure, compliance and regulatory matters.
Our clients include Canadian and non-Canadian private and public companies, financial services, firms, accounting firms, and their officers, directors and employees who retain us on a broad range of other public capital market matters, long form, short form, and shelf prospectuses and private placements.
We also provide advice to exempt market dealers, portfolio managers, investment fund managers, investment dealers and individual registrants in connection with their initial registrations and ongoing compliance.
Our founder, Barbara Hendrickson, is a former senior legal counsel at the OSC and has participated in a number of OSC securities advisory committees. Barbara brings decades of experience and knowledge of OSC decision making, and personnel and enforcement practices to assess and provide a detailed strategy to resolve your matter.
Corporate Finance & Securities Law News
BCSC Publishes Update to NI 81-106, Investment Fund Continuous Disclosure
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) including the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has published an update to National Instrument 81-106, Investment…
CSA Announces Adoption of Final Amendments to Trading Fee Caps
Provided all necessary ministerial approvals are obtained, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) advises that final amendments to National Instrument 23-101…
Canadian Securities Regulators Greenlight Project Samara
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) (the Canadian…
BAX Securities Law’s Barbara Hendrickson speaker at Ukraine Bar Association
Barbara Hendrickson, founder and Managing Partner of BAX Securities Law, was a guest speaker at the III Annual International Scientific…
Barbara Hendrickson re-appointed to BCSC Fintech Advisory Forum
Barbara Hendrickson, founder and Managing Partner of BAX Securities Law, has been reappointed to a third two-year term as member…
CIRO Publishes Proposed Consolidation Rules for Comment
The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) is republishing for further comment the complete proposed consolidated rules (Proposed CIRO Rules) for…
Awards and Recognition
- Best Lawyers Best Canadian Law Firm: BAX Securities Law® received this award in 2025 and 2026
- Canadian Lawyer Top Corporate Law Boutiques: BAX Securities Law® received this award in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: Barbara Hendrickson has been repeatedly recognized in the Corporate Finance & Securities Law area.




