Cassels Brock & Blackwell

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Cassels Brock & Blackwell is a Canadian business law firm advising clients from start-ups to multinational organisations on transactional, advocacy and advisory matters. It has offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. Its Banking & Specialty Finance group includes a payments industry practice that advises card issuers and programme operators on credit, debit and prepaid card programmes, non-regulated payments and virtual and digital payment rails. The group's financial institution regulation team advises federally and provincially regulated institutions and foreign institutions entering Canada, including on digital assets, licensing and governance in fintech. Its High Growth & Venture Capital group acts for technology companies raising venture, debt or equity financing, as well as for technology funds, private equity funds and strategic investors, with listed work including Clio's US$900 million Series F.