Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

About this office:

At Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), It Begins With Service.

BLG is a leading, full-service, integrated national law firm focusing on business law, litigation and intellectual property solutions for our clients. With more than 750 lawyers, intellectual property agents and other professionals in Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Waterloo Region, clients turn to us for assistance with their legal needs, from major litigation to corporate finance and patent registration.

Our goal at BLG is to provide our clients with the best service, by the best professionals and support staff. We are accessible to our clients and proactive in uncovering and serving their needs. BLG's team approach provides the best resources based on location, expertise and experience to develop and articulate solutions to legal challenges. BLG's strength is the ability of its professionals to apply our breadth and depth of legal experience to clients' businesses, whether their needs are in a single location, across North America or overseas.

BLG provides advice to a variety of regional, national, and multinational businesses across a wide variety of sectors. In addition, we represent public institutions such as universities, governments and agencies, health-care facilities including hospitals as well as business, trade, and charitable groups.

BLG's professionals and staff take pride in the communities we are a part of and members of the Firm are involved in BLG's community programs including pro bono legal services, fundraising and volunteer service.

For more information about the firm, its practice areas and community support go to www.blgcanada.com.

Aboriginal Law, Advertising and Sponsorship, Appeal and Review, Asia Pacific, Aviation, Banking Litigation, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Business Immigration, Class Actions, Commercial Arbitration and Mediation, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Lending, Commodity Tax, Competition and Marketing Law, 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 Services, Forestry, Franchise and Distribution, Fraud Law, Government Relations, Health Care Institutions and Services (non-litigious), Hotel and Hospitality, Information Technology, Insolvency and Restructuring, Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnership, International, International Tax Law, International Trade Law, Investment Management, IP Litigation, Japan, Marine, Mergers and Acquisitions, Municipal Law, National Transportation, Not-for-Profit, Oil and Gas, Pensions, Personal Tax and Estate Planning, Police and Municipal Government Liability, Privacy and Access to Information, Private Company, Product Liability, Public Law, Regulatory, Securities Litigation/Broker Liability, Structured Finance and Leasing, Tax Litigation, Venture Capital, Wealth Management.

Prévost Car: Dutch Intermediary is "Beneficial Owner" Under Treaty
Stephanie A. Wong, October 12, 2009
In The Queen v. Prévost Car Inc., the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the Minister of National Revenue's appeal from the Tax Court's decision that the Canadian corporate taxpayer's parent, a Dutch holding company, was the "beneficial owner" of dividends which entitled it to a reduction...

Canada's Credit and Debit Payments Systems under Scrutiny
Stephen J. Redican, Rebecca C.W. Chan, Tiffany Murray, October 12, 2009
Committees from both the Senate and the House of Commons have recently undertaken to review Canada's credit and debit payment systems. The Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce commenced hearings on March 25, 2009. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and...

Limitation Periods: Coextensive For Guarantees; New Period for Demand Obligations
Stephen J. Redican, Alexander A. Singh, October 12, 2009
In the fall 2008 Chorny decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, it was held that the limitation period on a guarantee was co-extensive with that on the principal debt. In that decision, the Court applied the principle of co-extensiveness to find that the limitation period on the...

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