{"id":46447,"date":"2022-12-09T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46447"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:24:08","slug":"jay-hoffman-and-maryam-zargar-interviewed-on-addition-of-zargar-lawyers-team-to-business-law-group","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/news\/jay-hoffman-and-maryam-zargar-interviewed-on-addition-of-zargar-lawyers-team-to-business-law-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Hoffman and Maryam Zargar interviewed on addition of Zargar Lawyers team to Business Law Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jay Hoffman and Maryam Zargar speak to Law.com International on the growth of the Business Law Group in Vancouver with the recent addition of the Zargar Lawyers team:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The firm, which has 11 offices across Canada, is actively in growth mode, Jay Hoffman, chair of Miller Thomson\u2019s business law group told Law.com International. The hire of Zargar and her team [&#8230;] is part of Miller Thomson\u2019s strategy for bulking up the corporate group in the Vancouver market, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;] Zargar said her practice has a heavy focus on technology, digital health, and mobile software and design companies, a burgeoning market in Vancouver, as well as an overall emphasis on the mid-market. She said Miller Thomson has indicated that mid-market clients in Vancouver are a target area for growth and she is confident there are a lot of growth opportunities resulting from a &#8220;drastic increase in transaction activity&#8221; she\u2019s been seeing recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our plans are aligned in terms of growth, southbound in terms of opportunities coming from the U.S. in the tech area and other areas,&#8221; said Hoffman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/international-edition\/2022\/12\/09\/canadas-miller-thomson-acquires-vancouver-boutique-bolstering-corporate-and-ma-group-and-continuing-growth-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article<\/a> (registration required)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35055,"template":"","news-category":[653],"class_list":["post-46447","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jay Hoffman and Maryam Zargar interviewed on addition of Zargar Lawyers team to Business Law Group | Miller Thomson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/news\/jay-hoffman-and-maryam-zargar-interviewed-on-addition-of-zargar-lawyers-team-to-business-law-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jay Hoffman and Maryam Zargar interviewed on addition of Zargar Lawyers team to Business Law Group | Miller Thomson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jay Hoffman and Maryam Zargar speak to Law.com International on the growth of the Business Law Group in Vancouver with the recent addition of the Zargar Lawyers team: The firm, which has 11 offices across Canada, is actively in growth mode, Jay Hoffman, chair of Miller Thomson\u2019s business law group told Law.com International. 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