Chad Finkelstein

Nov 13, 2024 | ca.billboard.com | Chad Finkelstein |Rosie Long Decter

For musicians, stage names are extremely important – and also surprisingly fragile. Classic rock legends The Guess Who recently learned this lesson the hard way. After a lengthy public battle, former members of the Canadian band settled a long dispute about who had the rights to perform using the trademarked name. The members of the hip-hop group Fugees are in the middle of a similar dispute, in part over trademark ownership rights to the band’s name.

Sep 4, 2023 | mondaq.com | Chad Finkelstein

This article was originally published in the Globe and Mail by Chad Finkelstein and Greg Martin. Subway, among the largest restaurant chains in the world, recently announced that it would be sold for roughly US$9.55 billion, in spite of challenging debt financing markets and a small pool of prospective purchasers able to pull off a transaction of this size.

Aug 30, 2023 | theglobeandmail.com | Chad Finkelstein |Greg Martin

Chad Finkelstein is a partner at Dale & Lessmann and co-chair of the law firm’s franchising, licensing and distribution group. Greg Martin is a managing director at Origin Merchant Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on mergers and acquisitions.