Mr Aaron Sonshine > Bennett Jones LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Bennett Jones LLP Offices
3400 ONE FIRST CANADIAN PLACE
PO BOX 130
TORONTO, ONTARIO
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Mr Aaron Sonshine
Work Department
Capital Markets & M&A
Position
Partner
Career
Aaron is co-head of the Cannabis group. He practises corporate and securities law with a particular emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate governance matters. He has extensive experience in the cannabis, mining, power and utilities, tech, REITs and biotech sectors. Aaron is active with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, MLSE Team-Up Foundation and Ronald McDonald House Canada in his personal time, and he does a great deal of mentoring at Bennett Jones, recently joining the firm’s associate review committee.
Memberships
Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, American Bar Association
Education
Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 2006.
Admitted to the Ontario bar, 2007.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Cannabis
(Hall of Fame)Bennett Jones LLP had a hand in many of the largest cannabis deals to hit the market over the past year. In a highlight example, go-to cannabis transactional specialist Aaron Sonshine
advised Cresco Labs on its $2bn acquisition of Columbia Care, which made Cresco the largest cannabis producer and retailer in the US at the time of the transaction. Toronto-based Sonshine co-heads the practice together with firm vice chair and Toronto managing partner Dominique Hussey, who specializes in advising cannabis clients on IP and regulatory matters; she notably provides ongoing regulatory advice to Canopy Growth. Other key contacts include corporate finance specialist Angela Blake, who splits her time between Toronto and Vancouver; Toronto’s Kim Lawton, who is well versed in cannabis-related capital markets and securities issues; and Toronto-based IP and life sciences partner Melissa Dimilta.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Cannabis
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Environment
- Technology
- Technology
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
Firm Rankings
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Infrastructure projects
- International trade
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Indigenous law
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Labour and employment
- Pensions
- Technology
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia