Kevin Rusli

Practice Areas

Kevin is the Managing Partner of the New York office for Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Kevin’s practice encompasses Canadian cross-border corporate and securities law and advising on market-leading transactions and regulatory developments. Drawing on his extensive experience of business issues and market practices across industries, Kevin regularly acts as trusted legal adviser to numerous Canadian and U.S. investment dealers, private equity sponsors, asset managers, banks, credit unions, pension plans and corporations on a variety of cross-border corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions matters, including leveraged buyouts, equity investments, co-investments, secondaries, restructurings and fund formation. Kevin is also regarded as a leading lawyer on the regulation, fund formation and registration of investment fund managers, portfolio advisers and dealers, and has considerable experience in structuring fund platforms in Canada for both domestic and international sponsors. He is a regular conference speaker and major contributing author of many fund publications. Prior to assuming his role in the New York office, Kevin was the Practice Group Leader of the Capital Markets group in Toronto.

Kevin is a member of the International Bar Association, the Asian American Bar Association of New York, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the Canadian Association of New York, Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association and the Association for Corporate Growth. Kevin has been selected to be a member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investment Funds Technical Advisory Committee for the 2023 – 2025 term, and is a board member of the Canadian Association of New York, and Magicana, a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to the advancement of magic as a performing art supported by the Slaight Family Foundation.