Best Lawyers in Canada for Venture Capital Law
Neil Kravitz is Fasken’s Firm Managing Partner-Elect, with his mandate set to begin on January 1, 2027. In this role, he will lead a team of more than 900 lawyers and over 2,000 personnel across the Firm. Neil currently serves as Co-Leader of our Montréal office Corporate Group and the Firm’s Cross-Border and International Practice. He is widely regarded as a highly skilled, deal‑oriented M&A and securities lawyer and as a strategic thinker with board-level judgment and...
Ben is a business lawyer with over 20 years’ experience representing clients on M&A, private equity, angel and venture capital transactions, and a host of other business law matters. Ben is also an active investor, and is currently Chair of two tech-based companies and a Co-Chair of Tiger 21 (North America’s preeminent peer learning group for successful, active entrepreneurs who are stewarding personal wealth of $10MM and greater ( www.tiger21.com )). Clients include business ...
Michel Boislard has extensive experience in commercial law, primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, investment funds and securities. He also advises clients from the high technology and biotechnology sectors. Numerous public and private corporations trust Michel to represent them during complex domestic and international cross-border transactions. Michel familiarized himself with the challenges involved in cross-border transactions while working as resident pa...
Jon Conlin is one of Vancouver’s top venture capital and emerging technology lawyers. As the National Co-Lead of Fasken’s Emerging Technology & Venture Capital Group, Jon advises high-growth technology companies, founders, and venture capital funds on complex transactions across Canada’s innovation economy. He is also a key member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups. Jon’s practice focuses on early-stage and venture capital fina...
Founding Partner of BCF LLP, Mario Charpentier co-heads our Corporate Finance sector. Mario was Managing Partner of BCF for 25 years, from the foundation of the firm in 1995 until November 2019. As a tax practitioner, he advises clients from every industry on the legal and business strategies to adopt to best grow their business. Mario draws upon a well of legal expertise and a vast network of personal and business relationships to address our clients’ challenges and provides tailored s...
Steven Lukas, Associate Counsel, is co-chair of Harper Grey's Business Law Group. Known for his innovative and “out of the box” thinking and client focused solutions, Steven works closely with many entrepreneurs and corporations of all sizes and maturity, providing general legal advice on a broad range of corporate matters. He provides strategic counsel in the complex aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including divestitures and negotiated acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic...
Geoff Dittrich is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Technology Law and Venture Capital Law. Geoff practices law in Vancouver, British Columbia Best Lawyers has recognized Geoff Dittrich since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Geoff Dittrich is held by other lawyers.
Arlene has developed a broad range of expertise in the areas of corporate and commercial law, with a strong focus on merger and acquisition transactions, corporate governance and corporate finance. Arlene works extensively with technology based companies and assets including software, media and green technology. While Arlene maintains a mix of practice areas in commercial law, she has focused her practice on mergers and acquisitions and technology law. Arlene has also been a key advisor to va...
Andrew Kemp is a Partner in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell and a member of the firm’s Corporate Commercial Group. His practice focuses on assisting domestic and international clients on a broad range of corporate legal matters with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactions. He has experience advising public and private companies, private equity funds and syndicates of investors on share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, reorganizations, fi...
Annie is an associate lawyer in the McKercher LLP Regina office. Annie advises high‑growth technology companies and their founders on financings, repeatable commercial contracts, and governance issues from formation through scale. Annie focuses on supporting rapidly scaling technology companies and their venture capital and strategic investors. She works closely with founders and operators to build lasting legal infrastructure required to scale teams and businesses. Her work spans incorporati...
Camille Paquette joined Blue HF in April 2021. Her practice focuses on venture capital, as well as private mergers and acquisitions. She advises entrepreneurs, emerging companies, and investors across all stages of the investment cycle, from fundraising to exit transactions. Prior to joining Blue HF, Camille practiced at two leading national law firms, where she developed significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities, and capital markets. Drawing on this background, she combi...
Emilie Clairoux is an associate within the Corporate/Commercial group. Her practice covers all aspects of business law, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and start-ups. Emilie assists entrepreneurs, venture capital and private equity funds, and institutional investors in every step of their transactions, from the drafting a letter of intent, to the implementation of the initial structure, as well as integrating the assets following the closing of the transaction. She has exte...
Brock Euper is an emerging technology and venture capital lawyer who helps technology companies, founders, and investors build, finance, and exit their businesses. He acts on venture and growth financings, M&A, and strategic transactions for high-growth companies and the funds that back them. He has a particular interest in the defence tech and dual-use sector, working with companies building in artificial intelligence, robotics, and adjacent fields where commercial products also have nat...
Adam is a lawyer in the Emerging Technologies group at our Montréal office. His practice touches various fields, including venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements. Adam is passionate about assisting his clients in navigating the legal challenges they face at each step of their development. Adam obtained his LLM from the University of Tel-Aviv, where his thesis focused on exploring the intersection between blockchain ...
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