On January 26, 2021, Veritas Technologies LLC, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, announced the acquisition of HubStor Inc., headquartered in Kanata, Ontario.

Veritas Technologies is a global leader in data protection, availability and insights. The acquisition of HubStor enables expanded protection for a variety of SaaS-based applications, including Microsoft 365, Slack, Box and Google Workspace. 

Gowling WLG advised Veritas Technologies with respect to this acquisition with a team led by Daniel Scott and that included Shaela Rae (corporate), Ian Macdonald (Investment Canada Act), Carole Chouinard (tax), Elisa Scali (employment), and law clerk Karen Ethier, assisted by student-at-law Nathan Jin Bao.