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.

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

Toronto Financial Services Alliance Calls For Changes to Canadian Law to Facilitate Islamic Finance
P. Jeffrey S. Graham,Tyler W. Hodgson,Gar Knutson,Sonia Molodecky,David Mousavi,Habeeb Syed,Fadi Yachoua, February 7, 2012
The Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) a public private partnership of federal, provincial and municipal governments and leading financial institutions and entities, has made submissions to the federal and provincial governments as part of the annual pre-budget consultation process. In each...

Ontario Court Of Appeal Recognizes the Tort of Invasion of Privacy
Barbara A. McIsaac, January 20, 2012
In the much anticipated decision of Jones v. Tsige, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on January 18, 2012 that there in a common law tort for invasion of privacy recognized in Ontario and awarded damages of $10,000 even though the plaintiff had not suffered any monetary loss. The tort that the...

Federal Privacy Commissioner Issues Guidance to Online Advertisers
Eva Chan,Barbara A. McIsaac,Alexandra Nicol, December 15, 2011
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently released new online advertising Guidelines to help organizations ensure that their online behavioural advertising practices are fair, transparent and in compliance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents...

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