Chris’s practice focuses on complex commercial matters in regulated industries both inside and outside of insolvency.
Chris’s practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions and regulatory strategies for companies in agribusiness, healthcare, cannabis and other regulated industries. He has broad experience with a range of complex acquisitions, commercial arrangements and regulatory issues.
Chris’s practice also includes advising clients on all corporate aspects of Canadian insolvency proceedings and he has advised debtors, lenders, purchasers, directors and shareholders in a variety of distressed transactions and proceedings.
- Counsel to various beer and liquor companies and brands on licensing, brokerage, retail and acquisition matters
- Counsel to various consumer product good companies on their Canadian distribution and sale arrangements
- Counsel to Indigenous tobacco manufacturers and brands on licensing, distribution and sale matters
- Counsel to clients in the health-care industry on initiatives, arrangements and transactions with patients or physicians and health-care compliance
- Counsel to various manufacturing and equipment companies on their supply chain, distribution and sale/financing arrangements
- Counsel to various Canadian licensed producers of cannabis and hemp on a wide range of matters, including commercial transactions, white label agreements, licensing agreements, import/export arrangements (including hemp-derived CBD), regulatory matters (including edibles, extracts and topicals) and promotional requirements
- Counsel to Canadian retail cannabis companies on commercial, regulatory and promotional matters
- Counsel to Indigenous communities and businesses on the development of and compliance with cannabis licensing frameworks
- Counsel to cannabis accessory manufacturers on commercial, regulatory and promotional matters, including entry strategies
- Counsel to celebrity, sport and media personalities in relation to intellectual property licensing and services agreements in the cannabis industry
- Counsel to advertising agencies, content creators and media companies on their cannabis regulatory compliance strategies
- Counsel to businesses in adjacent industries on the development, marketing, sale and transportation of cannabis products, including regulatory compliance issues
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Law Society of Ontario
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Recognized as a Top Lawyer, Cannabis Law, Chambers Canada (Nationwide – Canada, 2025)
- Recognized as a Top Lawyer, Cannabis Law, The Best Lawyers in Canada (2022)
- Recognized as One of Canada’s Leading Lawyer for Business, Cannabis Law, Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2020-2022)
- Recognized as a Top Lawyer, Cannabis Law, The Legal 500 Canada (2020-2022, 2024)