Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is a premier corporate and M&A practice in Canada, leading on high-value complex cross-border and domestic deals across the country. The firm fields both a national private M&A team dedicated to private M&A transactions as well as a national public M&A team to handle public deals. In Toronto, Jeffrey Lloyd is a M&A heavyweight, having advised purchasers, targets and special committees on M&A transactions, negotiated and unsolicited transactions. Michael Gans represents special committees of boards in complex party transactions and internal investigations, practice co-head Cheryl Satin advises on a wide range of transactions and governance matters and Catherine Youdan leads  the capital markets and securities group in Toronto. Lastly in Toronto, Rory ffrench co-heads the corporate and commercial team handling multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, while Linda Tu is well-versed in public M&As. For the Calgary team, Jeff Bakker leads the practice alongside Chad Schneider, they are both well-versed in corporate transactions, with Schneider focusing on the energy sector. Ross Bentley aids primarily Canadian clients in equity and debt issues. In Vancouver, John-Paul Bogden chairs the practice and works with a mix of domestic, US and international clients on M&A transactions. Corporate experts Philippe Bourassa and Patrick Menda co-leads the Montréal practice handling a range of transactional issues.