Pulse Law
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.8 lawyers · Established 2025 · Waterloo Region, City of Toronto
One of 102 law firms listed in Kitchener, and one of 37 handling Business & Corporate Law.
About Pulse Law
Pulse Law works with forward-thinking businesses, from startups and venture-backed companies at the early, growth or mature stage through to established SMEs. Investors at every growth stage are clients too, as are financial and strategic buyers. Todd Bissett and Irena Kramer founded the firm in 2024 and bring more than 30 years of combined experience at Canadian and international firms.
Home for Pulse Law is the corridor running from Kitchener-Waterloo to Toronto, and the firm puts major-market skills to work there and further afield. Josh Rosen leads the Toronto office and joined with more than a decade at national and international firms to grow the Pulse Law platform in Toronto.
Bissett is the firm's CEO. Licensed in both California and Ontario, Bissett started out in Silicon Valley and spent a decade at US and international firms in California and Asia, finishing that stretch as manager of an AMLAW 100 firm's China practice before moving home to Waterloo Region. Kramer, the COO, practised in Ottawa and London early on and later settled in Waterloo.
Two practices have named leads. Radhika Vaidyanathan runs mergers and acquisitions and came to the firm with more than 15 years at an international firm, experience that included practising internationally as a foreign-qualified lawyer. Anthony de Fazekas heads intellectual property and has taught IP Commercialization at Osgoode Hall Law School since 2018.
Practice areas
Mergers and acquisitions
Pulse Law covers a deal from structuring and negotiation through diligence, closing papers and securities filings, and it keeps supporting governance once the deal has closed. Its mandates include acting for the sellers of Plum.io on its sale to Phenom Canada, for Dell Tech when Registrar Corp acquired it, and as lead Canadian counsel to GrubMarket when it bought Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery Inc. (SPUD).
Venture and growth financings
On the company side of a raise, the firm works with seed-stage convertible instruments and SAFEs, venture debt, and preferred-share equity rounds. It advised Jetson on its Series A.
Funds and investors
Venture capital funds and other investors can get help on seed and later-stage financings, and on fund formation. Todd Bissett acts for issuers and investors alike, and that work has included major institutional and strategic investors as well as venture capital and hedge funds.
Capital markets
Public-market work includes IPO and reverse-takeover listings, prospectus and LIFE offerings, private placements and public M&A. Josh Rosen has taken emerging and growth companies public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange and the Canadian Securities Exchange, through IPOs, reverse takeovers, direct listings and capital pool transactions.
IP, technology and data
The IP practice is being built for technology-driven businesses and their investors. The core of Anthony de Fazekas's own work is negotiating and drafting complex technology, IP and data contracts, and de Fazekas also works on data strategy, including rights in data and models such as data consortia and data trusts.
Cross-border and international work
For companies moving into new markets abroad, the firm draws on its cross-border and multi-jurisdictional deal experience. Much of Josh Rosen's practice has been for clients active in Canada, the United States, Israel and Europe.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessibleHow Pulse Law works
Pulse Law's position is that legal fees should be transparent and understandable, so it offers several fee structures and lets a company choose the one that suits its needs. Hourly billing covers the actual time spent on a matter. A flat fee is a fixed amount agreed in advance, which makes legal spend easy to plan. A subscription trades a predictable monthly fee for regular legal services.
Pulse Law has also partnered with Primal Fusion Inc. to launch Primal Provenant for Legal, an AI tool meant to change how its team finds and works with legal information. The tool gives clearly cited answers drawn only from documents stored securely in Pulse Law's internal systems. At the announcement, the firm planned to roll it out to its team over the coming months.
Milestones & recognition
- Formed a strategic alliance with Dentons, which gives Pulse Law access to national and global resources and deepens Dentons' regional presence in Kitchener-Waterloo.
- Opened its second office, in Toronto.
- Received multiple rankings in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada, including recognition of its Mergers and Acquisitions Lead in corporate law and in mergers and acquisitions law.
In the community
- Todd Bissett gives pro bono advice to early-stage companies through accelerator and incubator programs, among them Communitech, the Accelerator Centre and the University of Waterloo's Velocity Program.
- Bissett often gives talks to students, entrepreneurs, investors and corporate executives on the emerging growth market and on doing business internationally, especially in China.
Affiliations & connections
- Accelerator Centre: Pulse Law became a Preferred Service Provider to Accelerator Centre founders under a partnership set for 2025-2026.
- Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council: Pulse Law has joined the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council's network.
- Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery: Irena Kramer of Pulse Law sits on the gallery's Board of Directors.
Lawyers 8
Offices 2
The neighbourhood
Pulse Law's Kitchener office is in Suite 425 at 137 Glasgow Street, in Catalyst137. The building is a former tire and footwear warehouse in Belmont Village, redeveloped into 475,000 square feet of office and manufacturing space, and it now holds makerspaces, RF testing and certification services, and a café and restaurant.
The Toronto office is in Suite 1200 of the North Tower at 200 Bay Street, one of the two towers that make up Royal Bank Plaza. The complex has been the Royal Bank of Canada's corporate headquarters since 1976 and shares a financial-district block, bounded by Bay, Front, York and Wellington, with the Fairmont Royal York. Its shopping concourse is on the PATH, with direct links to the TD Centre and Union Station.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Pulse Law's Spark subscription for startups include?
- Pulse Law's Spark plan is limited to startups and costs $500 a month. It covers incorporation and organization, a shareholders agreement, founder IP, NDA and vesting documents, and an option plan with a grant form.
- How does the Surge plan differ from Spark?
- Pulse Law's Surge plan is aimed at companies that are scaling up, at $1000 a month. It includes what Spark covers where that applies, then adds a bi-annual one-hour strategy session and yearly corporate maintenance and filings.
- Will Pulse Law tie its fee to a transaction's outcome?
- Pulse Law may offer success-based fees on certain transactional matters. In those cases its pay depends on reaching a defined outcome, which lines up the firm's interests with the client's.
- Can a 2L student spend a summer at Pulse Law's Kitchener office?
- Pulse Law runs a Summer Student Program for 2L students in its corporate practice. Students work in person with the Kitchener team on live client files and get structured feedback over the summer. Applications, with a cover letter, resume and unofficial transcript, go through the ViLaw Portal.
- Did Pulse Law act on REA Group's purchase of a stake in Planitar?
- Pulse Law advised Planitar, an Ontario-based technology company, when REA Group acquired a 61.5% stake in it. Colleagues at Dentons LLP supported the firm's team on that deal.
- Was Pulse Law involved in Zeitview's acquisition of Consilience Analytics?
- Pulse Law advised Zeitview on that deal. On July 29, 2025, Zeitview announced it had bought the assets of Consilience Analytics from FieldSync; Consilience is a US-based platform offering digital twins and asset intelligence to telecom companies.
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