Together with John Costanzo, Executive Director of MAPLE New York, we are honoured to welcome Dorsey & Whitney LLP as our newest corporate member with a primary chapter affiliation in New York.
About Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Clients have relied on Dorsey since 1912 as a valued business partner. Established in Minneapolis, but with locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Dorsey provides an integrated, proactive approach to its clients' legal and business needs. Dorsey represents a number of the world's most successful companies from a wide range of industries, including leaders in banking & financial institutions, development & infrastructure, energy & natural resources, food, beverage & agribusiness, healthcare and technology, as well as major non-profit and government entities.
Dorsey has one of the largest and most well-regarded U.S.-Canada cross-border practices anywhere in the United States. Dorsey’s Canada team represents a broad range of Canadian-based clients, from emerging businesses to some of Canada’s largest public companies, in their financings, transactions, business activities and intellectual property development and digital media offerings in the United States. They also represent U.S.-based clients in financing or other transactions in Canada. With offices in Toronto and Vancouver, they have demonstrated their commitment to Canada.
Our Member Contacts
Dorsey's lead representative within our MAPLE community is Sarah Robertson, a partner of the firm with over twenty years’ experience helping clients protect, enforce and exploit their intellectual property assets, with particular depth in the creative industries, digital media and consumer product sectors.
She is the head of Dorsey & Whitney’s New York Trademark Group and co-chairs the firm’s Creative Industries Industry Group. She handles a wide scope of corporate and commercial agreements and transactions involving intellectual property. She also has extensive experience on Canadian cross-border issues and helps Canadian businesses enter the U.S. market. She handles sales, marketing and distribution issues, as well as complex licensing matters, and represents clients in disputes involving intellectual property.
Sarah started her legal practice in Toronto, Canada and is currently qualified as an Ontario Foreign Legal Consultant. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council for Canadian American Relations (CCAR), which conducts programs and activities that support arts and cultural institutions functioning in and between the two countries. She is also past President of the Canadian American Bar Association.
Joining Sarah as direct member contacts within MAPLE are James Guttman, partner Capital Markets & Corporate Compliance in Toronto and Anthony J. Marsico, partner Capital Markets & Corporate Compliance in New York.
Sarah Robertson | 212. 735.0788 | robertson.sarah@dorsey.com
James Guttman | 416.367.7376 | guttman.james@dorsey.com
Anthony J. Marsico | 212.415.9214 | marsico.anthony@dorsey.com
Please join us in welcoming Sarah, James and Anthony to MAPLE Business Council.