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DLA Piper Canada's Ontario Corporate team has acted on a number of significant and high profile matters in the areas of Corporate Finance and M&A. The team represents clients in both the private and public sectors in a broad range of industries, including technology, telecommunications, ‎energy, mining, projects (P3), healthcare, cannabis, life sciences and hospitality. We offer a comprehensive suite of legal services to support businesses in every stage of development, ‎including corporate transactions (financing, joint ventures, M&A), IPO planning, IP prosecution, and enforcement, regulatory, securities law compliance, employment advice, environmental and contracting ‎issues.

Global Recognition

As part of DLA Piper’s global Corporate Commercial and Mergers & Acquisitions practice group, the group draws upon the combined M&A experience of more ‎than 250 lawyers in North America and a significant number of global M&A counterparts. ‎

·      ‎#1 Global M&A deal volume for the fifteenth consecutive year (Mergermarket 2024)‎

·      ‎#2 Most powerful law firm brand in the world (Acritas 2022)‎

·      #1 Most active law firm global deal volume in private equity (PitchBook 2024)‎ 

Insights 

DLA Piper’s Growing your Canadian Business is a series of articles designed to help clients grow their business at every stage of its life cycle with content providing practical insight and actionable suggestions for businesses of all sizes. 

Chambers Review

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Corporate/Commercial: The Elite - Ontario

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What the Team is Known For

DLA Piper Canada assists with M&A in a variety of sectors, including in larger cross-border deals. The team is well recognised for handling deals in the cannabis sector and is also active in technology and retail. The firm also assists with transactions involving securities.

Work Highlights

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  • The team at DLA Piper acted for Haemonetics Corp in its US$255 million acquisition of medical device producer OpSens.

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Notable Practitioners

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Russel Drew
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Russel Drew
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Russel Drew is based in DLA Piper's Toronto office, from where he represents clients in both domestic and cross-border M&A transactions.

Russel Drew is a go-to person. He's a top-notch lawyer who is very efficient and practical.

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Russel Drew
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Russel Drew
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