Partner- Montreal office & Co-Head - National Information Technology Group
Blake Cassels & Graydon, Toronto
Sunny Handa is a Partner and co-head of the firm's Information Technology Group (across all nine Blakes offices) and co-head of the firm's India Practice Group. Sunny deals with information technology, intellectual property, communications (telecommunications and broadcasting) and electronic commerce matters and a range of corporate/commercial matters relating to technology and communications businesses, as well as a substantial practice in mergers and acquisitions of technology companies. Sunny also has an active life sciences/health law practice and has worked extensively for some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies on a wide array of operational drug-related as well as corporate and commercial matters.
As co-head of Blakes' India Practice Group, Sunny represents a number of Indian companies doing business in Canada as well as Canadian companies doing business in India. He travels to India frequently and was invited to attend the Province of Quebec's last three trade missions to India in 2006 and 2007.
Sunny has been named consistently as one of Canada's leading computer and IT lawyers and as one of Canada's leading technology lawyers by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. He was nominated as being among the world's pre-eminent Internet and e-commerce lawyers in The International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers and in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2008. In the 2008 and second edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada (and in the inaugural edition published in 2006), Sunny was voted as one of Canada's leading information technology lawyers in a peer-review survey. He was also named one of the "Corporate Lawyers to Watch" in The 2008 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. In PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008, Sunny was acknowledged as a well regarded practitioner in the category of information technology and e-commerce as well as in the area of outsourcing. In 2007, Sunny was named a "Lexpert Rising Star", honouring Canada's leading lawyers under 40. In 2005, he was named in the Canadian Who's Who directory. Sunny was named as one of Canada's "Top 40: 40 and Under 40" in the November/December 2004 issue of Lexpert magazine.
Sunny is a professor of law (adj.) at McGill University, where he has been teaching for the past 13 years. He currently teaches courses on communications law and complex legal transactions, and has taught information technology law, copyright and trade-mark theory, copyright and information technology law, and mergers and acquisitions law in the recent past. He also oversees graduate students writing in the fields of intellectual property, information technology and communications law. He has published widely in legal literature and has also authored and co-authored a number of recent books on information technology, communications law, copyright law and business, including Copyright Law in Canada (LexisNexis Canada Inc.: 2002) and the upcoming Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Copyright Law. Sunny is also the creator and general editor of the IT Law book series for LexisNexis, which has to date launched five titles. Sunny's writings have been quoted and cited with approval by courts across Canada including by the Supreme Court of Canada.
He speaks frequently at conferences nationally and internationally, is frequently quoted by the media on information technology, intellectual property and communications issues, and acts as an expert witness on technology matters.
As co-head of Blakes' India Practice Group, Sunny represents a number of Indian companies doing business in Canada as well as Canadian companies doing business in India. He travels to India frequently and was invited to attend the Province of Quebec's last three trade missions to India in 2006 and 2007.
Sunny has been named consistently as one of Canada's leading computer and IT lawyers and as one of Canada's leading technology lawyers by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. He was nominated as being among the world's pre-eminent Internet and e-commerce lawyers in The International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers and in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2008. In the 2008 and second edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada (and in the inaugural edition published in 2006), Sunny was voted as one of Canada's leading information technology lawyers in a peer-review survey. He was also named one of the "Corporate Lawyers to Watch" in The 2008 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. In PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008, Sunny was acknowledged as a well regarded practitioner in the category of information technology and e-commerce as well as in the area of outsourcing. In 2007, Sunny was named a "Lexpert Rising Star", honouring Canada's leading lawyers under 40. In 2005, he was named in the Canadian Who's Who directory. Sunny was named as one of Canada's "Top 40: 40 and Under 40" in the November/December 2004 issue of Lexpert magazine.
Sunny is a professor of law (adj.) at McGill University, where he has been teaching for the past 13 years. He currently teaches courses on communications law and complex legal transactions, and has taught information technology law, copyright and trade-mark theory, copyright and information technology law, and mergers and acquisitions law in the recent past. He also oversees graduate students writing in the fields of intellectual property, information technology and communications law. He has published widely in legal literature and has also authored and co-authored a number of recent books on information technology, communications law, copyright law and business, including Copyright Law in Canada (LexisNexis Canada Inc.: 2002) and the upcoming Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Copyright Law. Sunny is also the creator and general editor of the IT Law book series for LexisNexis, which has to date launched five titles. Sunny's writings have been quoted and cited with approval by courts across Canada including by the Supreme Court of Canada.
He speaks frequently at conferences nationally and internationally, is frequently quoted by the media on information technology, intellectual property and communications issues, and acts as an expert witness on technology matters.