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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Privacy & Data Protection

Canada Guide 2026 : Nationwide - Canada

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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

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Privacy & Data Protection - Nationwide - Canada

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Blake, Cassels & Graydon is recognised for its work advising major national and multinational organisations on Canadian regulatory compliance, and the development and implementation of data management programmes and cyber-risk strategies. The firm also acts as defence counsel in class actions and regularly advises on privacy issues ancillary to mergers. In the privacy space it represents clients hailing from a broad range of sectors, including heavily regulated industries such as healthcare, foods, financial services and energy.

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Strengths

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  • The Blakes team is always able to deliver required support and services on a timely basis.

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  • The team is highly experienced and I can always trust them to understand the law, including recent developments, and more importantly understand how that impacts my business.

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  • Blakes are excellent thought partners for us and proactively identify issues and solutions.

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  • The team's understanding of our business and industry is valuable.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Wendy Mee
    Wendy Mee

    Wendy Mee

    Wendy Mee is a skilled privacy and data protection expert with a high-calibre client portfolio, featuring standout names in the pharmaceutical, telecoms and financial services sectors. Based in Toronto, she serves as the national privacy officer for the firm.

    • Wendy is very proactive, thorough and practical.

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    • Wendy provides exceptional legal service. She is very efficient with her time and works to understand our business so that she can better serve us.

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    • Wendy is very good at taking complex statutory regimes and putting it into something digestible for the business.

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  • Catherine Beagan Flood
    Catherine Beagan Flood

    Catherine Beagan Flood

    Catherine Beagan Flood is experienced in handling privacy breach class actions and demonstrates additional knowledge assisting clients with responses to ransomware attacks.

    • Cathy provides consistently timely, practical and valuable advice.

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    • She is thoughtful and very knowledgeable.

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    • Cathy Beagan Flood has earned her esteemed reputation. She is highly competent, practically-minded and a strong communicator.

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  • Nicole Henderson
    Nicole Henderson

    Nicole Henderson

    Nicole Henderson is a Toronto-based partner who is recognised for her experience in acting on contentious cybersecurity matters. She is well placed to act as defence counsel in class actions.

    • Nicole is amazing. She's highly intelligent, she has great people skills and she is a pleasure to work with.

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    • She has tremendous expertise in the area, she is very responsive and tries to understand business context and priorities when providing advice.

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  • Ellie Marshall
    Ellie Marshall

    Ellie Marshall

    Toronto-based Ellie Marshall frequently advises clients on compliance with privacy laws.

    • Ellie provides exceptional support and client service on all fronts, with true depth of expertise and proactive commercial awareness.

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