Michael is a corporate commercial lawyer with a focus on AI, Corporate Governance and the health industry. Michael is Chair of Osler’s Health Industry Group.
Michael is routinely called upon to provide highly complex and strategic advice to Osler’s health industry clients. He advises clients in respect of a wide spectrum of matters, including commercial agreements, corporate governance, digital health regulatory opinions and structuring solutions, corporate restructuring and integrations, privacy and data security, health industry regulatory compliance and related business structuring advice and purchase and sale transactions.
Michael is the co-author of Osler’s AI Guide for Ontario Hospital Boards of Directors (2026).
Michael also designs enterprise risk management frameworks, including recently EMR extensions relating to AI.da’s Leading Lawyers for Business as Band 1 in Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial & Regulatory and is also recognized by Best Lawyers (Healthcare).
Representative Work
Health Industry
- Retained by numerous clients in respect of acquisition and sale transactions relating to regulated businesses including hospitals, long-term care facilities, licensed private diagnostic and surgical centres, laboratories, pharmacies and private clinics
- Providing complex regulatory opinions relating to the Canada Health Act, health insurance acts, and providers’ ability to offer health insurance and/or charge for enhanced non-insured medically required physician services
- Incorporating the first Ontario Health Team and establishing a governance structure to allow many different health service providers governed by different statutes to work collaboratively to deliver healthcare services
- Providing strategic advice on a first of its kind provincial and federally sponsored dedicated clinic for post-traumatic stress illness for first responders
- Advising on health-related grant/funding agreements, including the Government of Canada’s Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario and corresponding agreements to recipients to conduct research for clinical trials
- Retained by numerous clients to develop governance policies to assist boards in discharging their governance oversight and in particular the implementation of enterprise risk management systems to oversee fiscal, client, patient, resident and workplace safety
- Retained by eleven different provincially appointed Supervisors of public hospitals to assist them in addressing legal and governance issues relating to their mandates
- Advising hospital boards, administrative and physician leaders in respect of hospital privileges matters
- Retained by international healthcare organizations to provide regulatory advice in respect of planned Canadian health industry acquisitions, operations and novel healthcare services and products
- Advising multiple clients in establishing and expanding digital health care solutions
- Advising clients on regulatory, privacy and data security compliance and best practices
- Providing advice to clients in respect of complying with applicable law and best practices with respect to procurement policies
- Facilitating and implementing public healthcare restructurings, including hospital amalgamations and integrations and program transfers
- Conducting governance reviews of healthcare organizations
- Assisting international health industry clients in acquiring Canadian assets and doing business in Canada
Regulated Products
- Advising federal licence holders in respect of the regulated product regulatory landscape in Canada and all provinces and territories across Canada, including in respect of licensing matters and ongoing compliance with statutory requirements, such as restrictions on promotion and advertising
- Advising on regulated product supply and distribution agreements, including supply agreements between regulated product suppliers in Canada and international joint venture arrangements which include import/export considerations, such as an agreement to develop, cultivate manufacture and export medicinal products for the Latin American and global markets
- Advising clients in respect of retail supply, services agreements and licensing agreements in highly regulated industries such as pharmacy and pharmaceuticals
- Providing numerous regulatory opinions relating to compliance with federal statutes regulated by Health Canada and related provincial statutes
- Advising service and equipment suppliers to the health industry and regulated product manufacturers
Latest Insights
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Report July 17, 2026
A practical AI guide for Ontario hospitals
A practical AI implementation guide for Ontario hospital boards.
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Osler Update March 27, 2026
A letter, not a law: looming deadlines, provincial uncertainty, and Ottawa’s push to reimagine Canada Health Act compliance
Starting April 1, 2026, patient charges for physician-equivalent services will be deemed extra-billing and user chargers will occur.
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Osler Update January 5, 2026
Abbott v. London Health Sciences Centre: Ontario Court of Appeal reaffirms the authority of hospital boards to manage resources
The guidance comes at a time when many hospitals are facing tremendous pressures to recover from the significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Report December 5, 2024
The devil is in the details: legislative changes and access to healthcare
Legislative amendments are initiating significant developments in health reform.
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Awards and Recognition
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Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business: Recognized in Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial & Regulatory (Band 1)
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Lexpert Special Edition: Recognized in Health Sciences
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Best Lawyers in Canada: Recognized in Healthcare Law
Media Mentions
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Osler News July 8, 2026
Osler lawyers recognized in Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences 2026
Osler is proud to announce that 13 of our lawyers are recognized in the Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences 2026. This prestigious...
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Speaking and Writing
Speaking Engagements
Published Work
- AI Guide for Ontario Hospital Boards of Directors, July 2026.
- Debunking the Myths: A Broader Perspective of the Canada Health Act, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, September 2013.
Credentials
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Certificate of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
- Rotman School of Management, ICD.D.
- Harvard University, ADR
- University of British Columbia, Juris Doctor
- Bishops University, B.B.A.
Languages
- English
- French
Professional Affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association