Lawyer Profile
Sherri Altshuler
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Sherri is Co-Leader of the firm’s Capital Markets, Cannabis and Life Sciences Groups and a member of the Corporate Group, advising clients on complex transactional and strategic matters across a range of industries. She is known for delivering practical, business-focused solutions and for managing sophisticated, time-sensitive mandates with precision and efficiency.
Sherri’s practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters, with significant experience in public and private financings, corporate reorganizations and securities law compliance. She regularly represents issuers and investors in public and private offerings, reverse takeovers and stock exchange listings, and advises on continuous disclosure and corporate governance matters.
Sherri regularly works with clients across a broad range of industries, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), cannabis, life sciences, technology and mining. She advises companies at all stages of growth, from emerging ventures to established public issuers, on financing strategies, regulatory requirements and strategic transactions. Sherri’s experience includes numerous cross-border securities offerings, M&A transactions involving U.S. and international acquirors of Canadian businesses and assets, and advising companies expanding into Canada.
Sherri has received consistent recognition from leading legal directories. She is recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading lawyer in Corporate Finance & Securities, Corporate Mid-Market and Corporate Commercial Law, and is featured in Lexpert Special Editions for Finance & M&A, Technology & Health Sciences and Mining. Sherri is recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Securities Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law and Cannabis Law. She is ranked by Chambers Canada and The Legal 500 Canada for her work in the cannabis sector. She was previously named one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Canada’s Leading Lawyers Under 40.
Sherri is a frequent speaker on capital markets, regulatory developments and emerging industries, and is regularly sought out as a media commentator on legal issues. Her insight into securities regulation is informed by her prior secondment with the Corporate Finance Branch of the Ontario Securities Commission. Sherri has served on the TSX Venture Exchange Ontario Advisory Committee and the Ontario Securities Commission’s Small and Medium Enterprises Committee, and previously taught Corporate Finance at Windsor Law.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2005 (ON)