Christine advises and advocates for organizations and professionals across the health and life sciences sectors throughout Canada. She provides regulatory and strategic guidance to clients from early-stage companies to established national and multinational organizations navigating complex healthcare legal frameworks.
Her regulatory practice spans a wide range of healthcare and life sciences matters, including virtual care, GLP-1 therapeutics, laboratory developed tests, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and clinical operations. She advises healthcare businesses—such as medical clinics, pharmacies, MediSpas, diagnostic imaging facilities, fertility clinics, laboratories, and virtual platforms—on establishing operations, structuring compliant business models, and meeting federal and provincial regulations.
Her work includes advising on insured and uninsured healthcare models, advertising and promotional compliance for drugs, medical devices, and natural health products, and regulatory due diligence in transactional contexts. Christine also advises on fertility law and assisted human reproduction regulation, provides regulatory and strategic advice to FemTech companies, and counsels clients on emerging areas such as epigenetic testing.
A litigator by background, Christine’s litigation experience informs her advisory practice, enabling her to anticipate risk and provide strategic, practical guidance to clients. She has represented hospitals, public health authorities, and other health sector organizations and their employees in civil litigation. She has appeared as lead counsel before tribunals and at all levels of court in Ontario.
Christine has also completed a secondment in the legal department of a multinational pharmaceutical company, providing her with in-house perspective on regulatory risk, compliance, and operational decision-making.
Christine has been recognized in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada for Health Care Law and was previously recognized from 2022 to 2024 as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada for Health Care Law.
Experience
- Advises multiple global digital health companies including virtual care companies.
- Secondment experience in the legal department of a multi-national pharmaceutical company.
- Advises clinics, out-of-hospital premises, independent health facilities, MediSpas, laboratories and virtual platforms to ensure compliance with the relevant laws and standards of practice.
- Experience advising on insured and uninsured business models.
- Advises on advertisements related to drugs, devices and natural health products.
- Frequently assists and oversees health regulatory due diligence.
- Advises on matters relating to the Food and Drug Act and its regulations, as well as Health Canada Guidance documents.
- Advises on fertility law and assisted reproduction regulation.
- Provides regulatory and strategic advice to FemTech companies.
- Advises on regulations surrounding psychedelic therapy.
- Advises health professionals and clinics on licensing, conflict of interest and advertising regulations.
- Advises on compliance with Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act and equivalent statutes across Canada.
- Counseled hospital leadership on innovative medical devices.
- Acted for forensic mental health facilities before the Ontario Review Board and on appeals at the Court of Appeal
- Advises multiple global digital health companies including virtual care companies.
- Secondment experience in the legal department of a multi-national pharmaceutical company.
- Advises clinics, out-of-hospital premises, independent health facilities, MediSpas, laboratories and virtual platforms to ensure compliance with the relevant laws and standards of practice.
- Experience advising on insured and uninsured business models.
- Advises on advertisements related to drugs, devices and natural health products.
- Frequently assists and oversees health regulatory due diligence.
- Advises on matters relating to the Food and Drug Act and its regulations, as well as Health Canada Guidance documents.
- Advises on fertility law and assisted reproduction regulation.
- Provides regulatory and strategic advice to FemTech companies.
- Advises on regulations surrounding psychedelic therapy.
- Advises health professionals and clinics on licensing, conflict of interest and advertising regulations.
- Advises on compliance with Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act and equivalent statutes across Canada.
- Counseled hospital leadership on innovative medical devices.
- Acted for forensic mental health facilities before the Ontario Review Board and on appeals at the Court of Appeal
