Sunny Handa > Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP > Montreal, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Offices
3000-1 Place Ville Marie
Montreal QC H3B 4N8
Canada
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Sunny Handa
Work Department
Technology; Intellectual Property; Privacy; Communications
Position
Sunny is a Partner and National Practice Group Leader of both the Firm’s Technology group and the Firm’s Communications Law group. He has a substantial practice in mergers & acquisitions of technology companies and also advises clients on transactional and regulatory matters relating to information technology and electronic commerce, intellectual property, communications (telecommunications and broadcasting), biotech and defence. Sunny is also a well-recognized cyber breach coach and leads organizations through three stages of cybersecurity: cyber preparedness, incident response and post breach resolution work. Sunny works closely with boards and leadership teams across various Canadian companies and organizations in guiding them through the complex challenges of dealing with cyber-attacks and risk mitigation.
Sunny is widely published in legal literature and has authored and co-authored many books on information technology, communications law, copyright law and business.
Career
Sunny is a professor of law (adj.) at McGill University, where he has been teaching since 1994/95.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Telecoms
The group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP advises a range of companies on telecommunications, broadcasting and radio communication compliance matters. Additional skill lies in disputes, hearings, regulatory enforcement actions and public consultation processes. Montreal-based Sunny Handa
steers the practice and is well-versed in M&A, telecommunications and broadcasting matters. Also in Montreal, younger partner Céline Poitras assists corporations with their Canadian regulatory obligations.
Canada > Technology
(Hall of Fame)With lawyers based in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary, the technology group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP supports clients from a range of sectors with M&A and regulatory matters. The group is particularly well-versed advising clients in the financial services, pharmaceutical, telecoms, tech and energy segments. Montreal-based practice head Sunny Handa provides transactional and regulatory support to tech, telecoms and defence-sector clients, and has additional knowledge of outsourcing, cloud computing, e-commerce, privacy and data protection. Additional key partners include transactional specialists Marie-Hélène Constantin and Joanna Myszka in Montreal, and David Feldman and Robert Percival, both based in Toronto. Joanna Myszka
Lawyer Rankings
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- Transport > Aviation
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
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- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology