

Partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Year Called to Bar: 1996 (ON)
Paul Fornazzari is a leading Canadian lawyer whose practice concentrates on corporate, commercial, and securities law. As a trusted advisor to a wide range of clients—including boards, executive teams, entrepreneurs, and investment dealers—Paul brings extensive expertise in deal structuring, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, shareholder disputes, regulatory and stock exchange compliance, and complex commercial arrangements.
Paul represents both domestic and international clients across major industries such as mining, petroleum, technology, life sciences (including cannabis), and financial services. He is recognized for his unique expertise in lithium mining, having acted as counsel to the first lithium brine company listed in Canada and assisting the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) in setting policy for the application of NI 43-101 to lithium brine projects.
In addition, Paul pioneered the introduction of automatic securities trading plans for insiders in Ontario and worked with the OSC to develop these plans, modeled after US SEC Rule 10b5-1. As a fluent Spanish speaker from Latin America, he has considerable transactional experience and trusted networks across almost all Latin American jurisdictions.
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