Jonathan Sherman

Jonathan Sherman* is a partner in the Securities Group at Cassels and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Cannabis Group. Jonathan is routinely retained to act on behalf of a wide variety of cannabis industry participants, including: licensed and pre-licensed cultivators, processors and retailers in Canada, the US and other international jurisdictions; pharmaceutical, beverage and consumer goods companies seeking opportunities in the emerging global cannabis sector; and other ancillary businesses. Jonathan is at the forefront of many of the largest industry transactions in this evolving sector, providing strategic and legal advice to a range of leading industry players on complex and innovative transactions. With corporate clients ranging from start-ups to multibillion-dollar businesses, Jonathan’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions (public and private acquisitions, business combinations, joint ventures, go-public transactions and strategic collaborations) and corporate finance transactions (public offerings, venture capital, private equity offerings and debt financing transactions).