Ryan is a business lawyer and frequently acts as general counsel to various BC based businesses with operations nationally and internationally on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters. Ryan also acts as chief coordinating counsel for multi-business entrepreneurs who require personal legal representation to protect their personal and family interests and to coordinate their various other legal professionals across their holdings.

In addition to Ryan’s roles as general and/or coordinating counsel, Ryan advises the following client types on the following legal matters:

• Landlords and Tenants: commercial leasing, licensing, and related matters
• Private Business Owners and Professionals: business succession planning, business reorganizations and related tax planning, corporate governance; incorporation, corporate structuring, and general commercial matters.
• Vendors and Purchasers: private business mergers and acquisitions, purchases and sales of commercial real estate.

Best Lawyers in Canada: Mergers & Acquisitions 2024, 2025, 2026.

Roderick (“Rod”) Pearce brings 40 years of experience to his busy corporate and commercial law practice.  Rod was a founding partner of Grossman LLP, following more than 30 years at its predecessor firm, Grossman & Stanley, and several years with a large Vancouver commercial law firm.  Rod acts for a range of clients, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and their businesses. He is committed to providing practical, responsive and effective legal solutions to meet his clients’ immediate and long-term goals.

Rod has extensive experience, including handling mergers and acquisitions valued in the hundreds of millions, in the security and alcoholic beverage industries in British Columbia and across Canada. His corporate and commercial clients include some of the largest companies in their respective industries in Canada.  Rod provides comprehensive legal services to doctors, dentists, and other lawyers, including the incorporation of their professional practices, establishment of their partnerships, and the ongoing management of their commercial and corporate affairs.  Rod has significant experience in the not-for-profit sector, including low-income housing providers.

Born in Duncan, British Columbia, Rod grew up in North Vancouver and Cranbrook, British Columbia.  He earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree and his LL.B. at the University of British Columbia before being admitted to the BC bar in 1986.  An admitted hockey nut, both as a player and fan, Rod and his partner, Myrna, are foodies and wine geeks and they enjoy cycling, scuba diving, the visual and performing arts and travel.

Vincent Santacroce began his legal career with Grossman & Stanley (now Grossman LLP) in 1986.  Over the years, Vincent has assisted many individual and business clients with their commercial, corporate and real estate needs.  Vincent has extensive experience working with borrowers and lenders on residential and commercial property purchases, sale and lease transactions.  He has acted for clients that range in size from one-person business to multi-million dollar corporations. 

Like his colleagues, Vincent brings a problem-solving approach to every file. Before initiating any matter, he works to understand what his clients want to achieve – and how they want to achieve it. This enables him to develop highly personalized, cost-efficient solutions, which may be legal, corporate or practical in nature. 

Outside the practice, Vincent enjoys family life with his wife and three children. Vincent has served on a number of non-profit and community based boards both as a director and chair.  On the recreational side, Vincent founded a ball hockey group that has been playing together for over 30 years.  He has recently become fond of touch tennis (not pickleball) which he plays regularly.

Vincent is an insufferable Montreal Canadiens fan whose greatest fan moment was having his childhood hero Ken Dryden recount to him the famous late game save off of a Jim Pappin one timer in the 7^th game of the 1971 Stanley Cup finals.

David provides individuals and a variety of businesses of all sizes with personalized legal and strategic advice. He prides himself on being the first point of contact when his clients have an issue that needs to be resolved.

David brings a pragmatic and responsive approach to his practice.  Major focuses of David’s practice include corporate law, commercial law, employment law, real property law, secured borrowing and lending, and mergers and acquisitions. David also assists his clients with troubleshooting corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and succession planning issues.  

David joined Grossman & Stanley, the predecessor firm to Grossman LLP, in 2014 and was called to the British Columbia bar in 2015. David and his wife, Wendy, have two daughters, Stella and Lillian, who occupy much of David’s time out of the office.