Nakano Smith Law Group

About Nakano Smith Law Group

Nakano Smith Law Group is a small law firm based in Oakville, Ontario. Ryan Smith and Nozomi (Zoe) Smith co-founded the firm in 2021, and it now practices corporate and commercial law, software and data privacy, intellectual property, and wills, estates and trusts from an office on Speers Road. With two lawyers, the firm keeps its focus tight, working with businesses on contracts, governance and technology matters while also handling estate planning and administration for individual clients.

Ryan Smith earned a J.D. from the University of Toronto in 2004 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2006. A lawyer and trademark agent, Ryan Smith studied and worked in Germany for two years and articled at the firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune in Tokyo before returning to Canada, and is a member of the Missanabie Cree First Nation. Ryan Smith later wrote Intellectual Property in Commercial Transactions for Thomson Reuters and received the Hamilton Law Association's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2017.

Zoe Smith trained at Chuo University in Japan and the University of Toronto, earning multiple law degrees before being called to the Ontario bar in 2010. Now a Trust and Estate Practitioner and Certified Executor Advisor, Zoe Smith is a native Japanese speaker whose practice includes estate matters that cross the border between Ontario and Japan.