Shira Kalfa

Shira Kalfa founded Kalfa Law Firm in 2018, serving as its principal lawyer with a focus on corporate-commercial and private M&A law. The firm manages over 50 business transactions annually across industries like construction, hospitality, education, manufacturing, health care, fitness, retail, wholesale, and real estate with an enterprise value of between $1 million and $30 million. With a background in tax law, she advises on tax planning to minimize obligations, especially in sales or purchases, and specializes in tax-driven reorganizations under sections like 85, 86, purifications, and butterflies. Educationally, Shira graduated Summa Cum Laude from York University in 2012 and from Western Law in 2015 with a business law specialization. She gained experience at a large central Ontario firm before launching her practice.

Her recognitions include Best Lawyers One’s to Watch in corporate law for 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026; Lexpert’s Rising Stars as a Lawyer to Watch in 2023; features in Lexpert Finance and M&A Edition (2024) and Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2024, 2025); Canada’s Top 100 Professionals Magazine (2023); and media appearances on Newstalk 1010, with contributions to the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Hill Times, and articles in Lawyers Daily. As founder of Kalfa Law Firm, Shira leads a practice nominated for Small Business of the Year (2020) and Best Law Firm (2021). She demonstrates thought leadership by speaking at Ontario Bar Association CPD seminars on tax in private M&A and at the International Business Brokers Association (Canada) on transactional law. Nominations for RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards as a Woman of Influence (2021, 2023) and Businesswoman of the Year (2020) highlight her influence in business and law.