Jonathan Sherman

Jonathan Sherman serves as Executive Co-Chair and is a partner in the Securities Group at Cassels, serving as Chair of the firm’s top-ranked Cannabis Group. Jonathan’s practice focuses on emerging and high-growth industries, including cannabis, technology, natural resources, beverage alcohol, gaming, blockchain, cryptocurrency and psychedelic medicines. In his role as Chair of the firm’s Cannabis Group, 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. Jonathan acts for a wide variety of domestic and international companies and investment banks. 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). For his work, Jonathan is recognized as a leader in his field by Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Canada, IFLR100, and The Legal 500 Canada. He was called to the bar in Ontario in 2025.