Cassels Brock & Blackwell

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP is a Canadian business law firm with offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary; Toronto, at the Bay Adelaide Centre, is listed first. The firm describes its practice as one of the largest business law practices in Canada, serving clients from start-ups to multinationals. Its cannabis page names Daniel P. Cipollone and Tayyaba Khan, both partners, as key contacts. Cannabis work sits within the firm's corporate, securities and regulatory practices rather than in a separate boutique, and draws on lawyers from across those groups.

Cassels acts as corporate and securities counsel to private and public cannabis companies, and to licensed producers and late-stage applicants, on licensing, financings, mergers and acquisitions and go-public transactions. It has served as underwriters' counsel on equity and debt financings and public offerings for cannabis issuers. It also advises ancillary businesses, including private equity investors and device, branding, research and pharmacology companies, on general corporate, capital markets, intellectual property, regulatory, branding and celebrity-endorsement matters.

The practice page lists recent transactions for US multistate operators as well as Canadian producers, including deal announcements involving Canopy Growth, TerrAscend, Vireo Growth, Acreage and Trulieve, and publishes commentary on topics from federal amendments to the Cannabis Regulations and Ontario retail rules to US rescheduling. The firm does not publish fees. Recent commentary includes a piece on the Justice Department's reclassification of state-licensed and FDA-approved marijuana products. Prospective clients reach the team through the contacts named on the practice page.