LexSage Professional Corporation
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About LexSage Professional Corporation
LexSage Professional Corporation is an international trade and sales tax law firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, who holds an LL.B. and LL.M., founded the firm after almost 20 years practising at Bay Street law firms in Toronto. The firm operates from the Gooderham "Flatiron" Building at 49 Wellington Street East, Suite 501, a Victorian era triangular office building in Toronto's St. Lawrence neighbourhood.
The practice divides into two areas. On the trade side, it handles anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings, customs and tariff classification disputes, export controls and economic sanctions, government procurement bid challenges, and matters under NAFTA, CETA and other free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization framework. On the tax side, it advises on the harmonized sales tax, GST, excise tax, and Ontario's land transfer and employer health taxes. Rather than operating as a full-service firm, LexSage describes itself as a practice that supplements other Canadian and international law firms and accounting firms that don't have this work in house. Its team includes a lawyer who was formerly senior in-house counsel at General Motors, along with an advisor to the firm who is a former Canada Border Services Agency anti-dumping investigator.
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- Cherniak chairs the Canadian Bar Association's National Sales Tax, Customs and Trade Section.
- Cherniak chairs the American Bar Association Section of International Law's Customs Committee and is a vice chair of its International Trade Committee.
- Cherniak is a member of Council of the Ontario Bar Association.
- Cherniak teaches a course on Canada-U.S. trade issues as a sessional and adjunct law professor at the University of Windsor Law School, and sits on the advisory board for the joint J.D. program between the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy.
- Cherniak has been a director of the Canada China Business Council.
- Cherniak has been a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation since 1993 and of the Toronto Commodity Tax Study Group since the 1990s.
- LexSage says it gives other law firms and accounting firms a way to add diversity considerations to a client team, since large corporate clients increasingly ask for diversity information in requests for proposals, by outsourcing international trade or sales tax questions to LexSage on a file by file basis.
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The Gooderham "Flatiron" Building, 49 Wellington Street East, Suite 501, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1C9 · 416-307-4168
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