Yazhi Law Professional Corporation

About Yazhi Law Professional Corporation

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.