Jeffrey Teal MANAGING PARTNER

The law may be steeped in tradition and precedent, but that doesn’t stop Jeff from looking for approaches and solutions that challenge the status quo. The last thing he wants is his clients to be trapped by outdated or dogmatic thinking—he wants to break the mould on their behalf. “I'm never satisfied,” he says. “I'm always trying to find ways to improve our product or service so our clients get the most value.” The gallery of stunning local art on the walls of the firm’s downtown office is an example of Jeff's creative thinking: a way to unite his passion for art and desire to support emerging artists with Scarfone Hawkins’s commitment to the city. Jeff’s practice covers all aspects of business law from simple transactional work to matters related to the governance of large national and international corporations. Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate reorganizations, corporate finance, e-commerce, intellectual property—he does it all, and for some of the largest organizations around. He has managed multi-million dollar commercial real estate deals, quarterbacked the sale of Canadian companies to international corporations and worked with large public institutions on the acquisition of assets and intellectual property matters.