Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

About this office:

As Canada's largest full-service law firm, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) 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 our clients' businesses and how legal changes affect them 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 our legal professionals at home and abroad.

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. Our Firm also takes great pride in the communities in which we live and work. We support a variety of activities by providing pro bono legal services, fundraising and volunteer programs, such as the BLG Reads to Kids Program.

For more information about our Firm, its practice areas and community support, please visit blg.com.

Appellate Practice; Biotechnology; Class Actions; Construction Law; Education Law; Employee Benefits; Electricity Law; Entertainment Law; Environmental Law; Climate Change; Fidelity and Surety; Finance; Franchises and Franchising; Fraud; Government Relations; Health Care; Business Immigration; Insolvency; Insurance; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property Litigation; International Trade; Capital Markets; Derivatives; Investment Management; Labor (Labour) and Employment; Commercial Leasing; Municipal Law; Products Liability; Commercial Real Estate; Regulatory Law; Securities; Taxation; Tort Liability; Transportation; Forestry Law; Hotel and Resort Law; Hospitality Law; Information Technology; Lender Law; Japan Trade; Maritime Law; Marketing Law; Pensions; Pacific Rim Trade; Public Law; Sponsorship Law; Structured Finance; Aboriginal Law; Advertising Law; Aviation Law; Banking Litigation; China Trade; Commercial Litigation; Construction and Engineering; Corporate Commercial Law; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Corporate Taxation; Directors and Officers Liability; Estates; Expropriation Law; Family Law; Financial Institution Regulation; Financial Restructuring; Franchise Distribution; Hospital Law; Information and Privacy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mining Law; Municipal Liability; Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations; Oil and Gas Law; Police Liability; Public-Private Partnerships; Securities Litigation; Unfair Competition; Wealth Planning; Commercial Real Estate Finance.

A Practical Guide to Software License Agreements: the Software License
Bradley J. Freedman, February 7, 2012
A software license gives a customer permission to use the licensed software and do other things that might otherwise be an infringement of the software vendor’s rights. Customers should understand the scope of the software license and take reasonable precautions to minimize the risk of...

Common Law Privacy Rights: Ontario Court Of Appeal Recognizes Invasion of Privacy Tort
Amy Davison, January 31, 2012
The Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32, has explicitly recognized a common law tort for invasion of a person`s right to privacy, specifically the right to seclusion of one’s private affairs from the public eye - a legal issue that remains uncertain in some...

Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc.
Geoffrey Thompson,Edward Wang, January 23, 2012
In the recently released Judgment in Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc., the British Columbia Court of Appeal was called upon to decide whether a Monitor, under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”), or a Receiver, under the Builders Lien Act, could borrow...

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