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Mr David Little
Work Department
Corporate
Position
National Lead, Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies and Managing Partner
Career
David Little is the National Lead of Dentons Canada’s Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies Group, and Managing Partner of the Ottawa office.
David focuses on representing funds and emerging companies in venture capital financings, cross-border transactions, buy-outs and M&A.
David regularly acts as principal external counsel for many of the leading venture capital investors (both private and public) in Canada and the United States in a broad range of financing transactions, including a number of the largest VC deals in Canada. He also provides ongoing corporate and securities advice to numerous knowledge-based and other emerging companies, as well as senior executives, boards of directors and fund general partners, through all stages of the growth cycle, from start-up through M&A and public financings, including with respect to governance, equity compensation and other corporate matters.
David has previously been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law where he lectured extensively on securities law and venture capital.
David has been recognized by numerous groups including Best Lawyers as a leading practitioner in venture law, including as Lawyer of the Year, Venture Capital Law (Ottawa) for 2023.
Dentons has been ranked among the top 10 globally in venture capital deals, as reported in Pitchbook.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Law Society of Upper Canada
- Member, Canadian Venture Capital Association
- Member, Invest Ottawa
- Past Member of the Board of Directors, International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC)
Education
University of Ottawa, 1991, LLB
Queen’s University, 1988, BA (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Technology
The over 40-strong team at Dentons is known for assisting clients with matters relating to blockchain, fintech, cryptocurrency, virtual reality and AI, as well as offering regulatory and M&A counsel. Ottawa-based David Little co-heads the group and has focused his practice on venture capital financings. Alongside him, senior counsel Tom Sides co-leads from Edmonton and specializes in technology, intellectual property and privacy matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Business immigration
- Construction
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Telecoms
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Environment
- Indigenous law
- Insurance
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Banking and finance
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Infrastructure projects
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology