Emerald Legal Professional Corporation

About Emerald Legal Professional Corporation

Emerald Legal Professional Corporation is a small, single-lawyer firm on Danforth Avenue in Toronto. It's been in business since 2015, when founder Mohammad Abdur Razzak set up the practice, a year after being called to the Ontario bar. Razzak, a barrister, solicitor and notary public, articled in Toronto at Lexpand Professional Corporation before starting the firm. Before that, Razzak had already built a legal career in Bangladesh, practicing law there from 1997 and later teaching commercial and corporate law as an assistant professor at East West University. Razzak holds an LL.B and LL.M from the University of Dhaka and a further LL.M in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

The firm handles residential and commercial real estate closings, business incorporations and closings, mortgage enforcement and power of sale proceedings, estate planning and administration, and civil and family litigation for clients across the Greater Toronto Area. It also acts for private lenders, preparing and registering private mortgage financing on their behalf. Its real estate work extends to severances of land under the Planning Act, and its estate practice covers wills, powers of attorney, probate and estate litigation.