With a particularly active AI practice, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP offers key services such as regulatory and governance advice and transactions involving AI businesses. The team represents clients from key industries across Canada such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and telecoms. The group is led by 4 partners: Wendy Mee specializes in privacy matters, such as developing and using AI systems and advising on data retention practices; Christopher Jones is involved in multi-jurisdictional matters and transactions; Robert Percival advises on emerging technology and transactions; and Anne Glover handles electronic discovery and information governance. All lawyers mentioned work in the Toronto office.
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Key clients
- SandboxAQ
- Evolve Funds Group Inc.
- Ten Coves Capital, LP
- World Wide Technology Holding Co., LLC
- MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF)
- Staircase Ventures
- Round13 Capital Inc.
Work highlights
Represented SandboxAQ, a newly formed growth capital AI and quantum computing enterprise in its acquisition of Good Chemistry, a computational chemistry company that leverages AI, Quantum and other advanced technologies to accelerate drug discovery and materials design.
Advised World Wide Technology Holding Co., LLC, a technology solutions provider with expertise in areas including AI, on its C$1.8bn acquisition of Softchoice Corporation.
Advised Evolve Funds Group Inc. on the launch and structuring of Artificial Intelligence Fund (ARTI), an artificial intelligence fund enhanced with generative AI.
Practice head
Anne Glover; Christopher Jones; Robert Percival; Wendy Mee