Practice/Organization Description
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), the largest full-service Canadian law firm, is driven to help achieve the best possible results for all our clients. With more than 750 lawyers, intellectual property agents and other legal professionals in six offices, BLG provides corporate, litigation and intellectual property solutions to a wide range of clients nationally and internationally. And as a bilingual English-French firm, BLG excels under both the common and civil law systems in Canada.
Understanding your business and how legal changes affect you today and tomorrow is BLG’s business. Like you, BLG believes that nothing less than achieving results through excellence will do. This commitment to service has resulted in the frequent recognition of many of BLG’s legal professionals at home and abroad. The Firm is also featured consistently in various national and international legal publications, including Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
In addition, BLG provides insight and clarity to regional, national and multinational corporations across a variety of business sectors. BLG is also proud to represent public institutions such as universities, governments and governmental agencies, and healthcare facilities, as well as private business, trade and charitable groups. The Firm also takes great pride in the communities in which its professionals and staff live and work. BLG supports a variety of activities by providing pro bono legal services, fundraising and volunteer programs, such as the BLG Reads to Kids Program.
PRACTICE AREAS
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP serves clients in all areas of a modern law practice, including specialized areas of expertise.
Aboriginal Law
Advertising and Sponsorship
Appeal and Review
Asia Pacific
Automotive
Aviation
Banking Litigation
Biotech and Pharmaceutical
Business Immigration
Class Actions
Climate Change
Commercial Arbitration and Mediation
Commercial Leasing
Commercial Litigation
Commercial Real Estate
Competition and Marketing Law
Construction, Engineering, Surety and Fidelity
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Corporate Tax
Directors’ and Officers’ Liability
Education Law
Electricity Markets
Entertainment Law
Environmental Law
Estate and Family Law
Expropriation Law
Financial Institutions Mergers
Financial Services
Financial Services Regulatory
Forestry
Franchise and Distribution Law
Fraud Law
Government Relations
Health Sector Services
Health Law
Hotel and Hospitality
Information Technology
Insolvency and Restructuring
Insurance and Tort Liability
International Tax Law
International Trade Law
Investment Management
Intellectual Property Agency
Intellectual Property Litigation
International Construction Projects
Japan Group
Labour and Employment
Lending
Maritime Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Mining
Municipal Law
National Transportation
Not-for-Profit
Occupational Health and Safety
Oil and Gas
Pensions
Police and Municipal
Government Liability
Privacy and Access to Information
Private Company
Product Liability
Public Law
Public-Private Infrastructure Projects
Real Estate Lending
Regulatory Law
Securities and Capital Markets
Securities Litigation
Specialized Lender
Structured Finance and Leasing
Tax Litigation
Wealth Management
National Managing Partner
Sean Weir
Offices
Calgary
Ottawa
Montréal
Toronto
Vancouver
Waterloo Region
Website
blg.com
