Yazhi Law Professional Corporation
1 lawyer · City of Toronto, York Region
One of 2,345 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 195 handling Intellectual Property.
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Yazhi Law Professional Corporation is a small Toronto firm headquartered in the city's Financial District, with a second Ontario office in Markham. Founder Yazhi Zheng holds a J.D. from the University of Ottawa, an LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, and a law degree from East China University of Political Science and Law. Before starting the practice, Zheng worked at international trade and immigration law firms in Canada and Europe, and at a German law firm in China focused on foreign direct investment and corporate governance work. The firm concentrates on international trade, intellectual property, corporate law, and business and investment immigration, with cross-border matters between Canada and China running through much of that work.
The team includes lawyers and a registered trademark agent covering corporate law, litigation, intellectual property, and immigration, along with an associate based in Shanghai who's licensed to practice law in China and handles regulatory compliance and cross-border investigations there. That same reach shows up in the firm's trademark practice, which represents clients in opposition matters in jurisdictions that include the United States, China, India, South Korea, and the European Union. Zheng serves as CPD liaison for the Ontario Bar Association's International Law Section, sits on the board of the Chinese Canadian Scholarship Foundation, and co-founded LexGPS, an AI-based legal technology platform aimed at improving access to justice.
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Milestones & recognition
- Founder Yazhi Zheng co-authored the article "Court, Judges and the Pandemic: Computational Legal Insights from the Ontario Court of Appeal Corpus 2008-2021," published in the Western Journal of Legal Studies.
- The trademark practice represents clients in opposition and related proceedings in jurisdictions including the United States, China, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, Singapore, and the European Union.
- The team includes a corporate lawyer licensed in the United States and an associate licensed to practice law in China, alongside its Ontario-licensed lawyers.
- One team member is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant and a licensed paralegal with the Law Society of Ontario, working on immigration applications and appeals.
In the community
- Zheng serves as CPD liaison for the Ontario Bar Association's International Law Section.
- Zheng sits on the board of the Chinese Canadian Scholarship Foundation.
- Zheng co-founded LexGPS, an AI-based legal technology platform focused on access to justice.
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The neighbourhood
The Toronto office sits inside First Canadian Place at King and Bay, a 72-storey tower that was Canada's tallest building from 1975 to 2025. It's a Financial District landmark with a large retail and services concourse beneath it, and it houses a wide mix of banking, finance, and law firm tenants, which fits a firm built around corporate, trade, and IP work rather than a courthouse-facing practice.
The Markham office is a longer drive north, in the Allstate Corporate Centre business park near the interchange of Highways 404 and 7, giving the firm a second base closer to clients across York Region without moving its core practice out of downtown Toronto.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Yazhi Law handle legal matters between Canada and China?
- That's a large part of the practice. The firm's founder previously worked at international trade and immigration firms in Canada and Europe and at a German firm in China, and the team now includes an associate based in Shanghai who is licensed to practice law in China.
- Can Yazhi Law register or defend a trademark outside Canada, including in China?
- Yes. The IP team handles trademark opposition and related matters in jurisdictions that include the United States, China, India, South Korea, and the European Union, in addition to Canadian filings.
- Does the firm help with investment or residency-by-investment immigration?
- Yes. The immigration practice includes residency-by-investment and citizenship-by-investment guidance across a number of countries, alongside more conventional business immigration work.
- My business is facing an anti-dumping or countervailing duty investigation. Can Yazhi Law help?
- Yes. The trade practice assists exporters responding to anti-dumping, countervailing, and safeguard investigations, including representation before the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
- Where are Yazhi Law's offices?
- The firm is headquartered in Toronto's Financial District at First Canadian Place, Suite 5600, 100 King Street West, with a second Ontario office at 15 Allstate Parkway, 6th Floor, in Markham.
- Can I get help in Mandarin?
- Yes. Several members of the team are fluent in English and Mandarin, and the firm's website is also available in a Chinese-language version.
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