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With lawyers based in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary, the technology group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP supports clients from a range of sectors with M&A and regulatory matters. The group is particularly well-versed advising clients in the financial services, pharmaceutical, telecoms, tech and energy segments. Montreal-based practice head Sunny Handa provides transactional and regulatory support to tech, telecoms and defence-sector clients, and has additional knowledge of outsourcing, cloud computing, e-commerce, privacy and data protection. Additional key partners include transactional specialists Marie-Hélène Constantin and Joanna Myszka in Montreal, and David Feldman and Robert Percival, both based in Toronto. Joanna Myszka

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Key clients

  • Beneva Group
  • MAI Investments
  • Portage Cybertech
  • Sycamore Partners Management

Work highlights

  • Assisted Beneva in connection with its sale of SSQ Dealer Services’ distribution business to Sym-Tech Dealer Service.
  • Assisted Sycamore Partners with its acquisition of Lowe's Companies’s Canadian retail business including Lowe’s Canada and Rona stores.
  • Assisted MAI Investments with the sale of Eclipse Automation to Accenture PLC, as well as related corporate work.

Lawyers

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Sunny Handa

Sunny Handa

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Sunny is a Partner and National Practice Group Leader of both the Firm's Technology group and the Firm's Communications Law group. He has a substantial practice in mergers & acquisitions of technology companies and also advises clients on transactional and regulatory matters relating to information technology and electronic commerce, intellectual property, communications (telecommunications and broadcasting), biotech and defence. Sunny is also a well-recognized cyber breach coach and leads organizations through three stages of cybersecurity: cyber preparedness, incident response and post breach resolution work. Sunny works closely with boards and leadership teams across various Canadian companies and organizations in guiding them through the complex challenges of dealing with cyber-attacks and risk mitigation. Sunny is widely published in legal literature and has authored and co-authored many books on information technology, communications law, copyright law and business.

Leading individuals

Robert Percival

Robert Percival

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Robert's practice focuses on technology transactions and outsourcing. Extensive experience advising domestic and international clients on a wide range of technology transactions across a broad range of industries, including cloud computing, strategic alliances, technology acquisition and transfer, licensing, distribution, open source software, privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, e-commerce / Internet, artificial intelligence, blockchain and smart contracts.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sunny Handa

Other key lawyers

Marie-Hélène Constantin, David Feldman, Robert Percival, Joanna Myszka