Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

BLG's Mergers and Acquisitions Group offers experience and expertise coupled with the drive and commitment to achieve the best results possible. Our core team of professionals includes lawyers focusing on negotiating and executing M&A transactions, both public and private, and who work with lawyers drawn from other disciplines across the firm key to M&A, such as tax, securities, competition, foreign investment review, litigation, IP/IT and environmental law. Our Mergers and Acquisitions Group leverages this cumulative expertise to offer the responsive solutions that clients require. Delivering the best possible results is BLG's top priority.

Our M&A team's vast experience has kept us at the forefront of this complex field. Our lawyers handle domestic and cross-border M&A transactions involving listed and other public entities, as well as the acquisition and disposition of closely-held businesses. Our expertise includes take-over bids, amalgamations and mergers, plans of arrangement, reorganizations, going-private transactions and spin-offs, as well as share and asset sales. We represent all types of participants in such transactions, including buyers, sellers, targets, investment banks, boards of directors, special committees, commercial banks providing acquisition financing, merchant banks, institutional investors, buyout funds and activist investors.

Boards of directors and special committees often face multiple layers of complexity in Mergers and Acquisitions situations and we help them in navigating their fiduciary duties, including preserving privilege and following appropriate process. In this regard, we bring to bear our experience with poison pills, competitive bidding situations and court and securities regulatory proceedings.

At BLG, it begins with service, and our M&A team is dedicated to meeting your needs with excellent results.