Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded
Canada Guide 2025 : Ontario
Band 1
About
Provided by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
No matter your ambition, our advice makes it real.
Harness your ambition within complex domestic and cross-border markets. Shape growth on your terms backed by our trusted advice.
Our M&A team's deep, industry-specific expertise drives the growth engines of the Canadian economy. Find the opportunities for growth and close public and private M&A deals that matter most with the resources and advice to set your business up for long-term success.
We act quickly with the wisdom of experience, offering practical, agile advice that cuts to the heart of your top priorities. With an interdisciplinary team of M&A lawyers to negotiate and deliver transactions, backed by specialty practices that address your most urgent concerns, we help you grow on your terms with trusted, proven advice.
We support clients in all the ways that M&A takes shape in their business, including:
- Take-over bids
- Amalgamations and mergers
- Plans of arrangement
- Reorganizations, spin-offs and divestitures
- Going private transactions
- Share and asset purchases and sales
Chambers Review
Borden Ladner Gervais wins recognition for its commercial work in the mid-market in Toronto. The law firm advises on public M&A transactions and is well known for its experience of technology, cannabis and resources sector deals, as well as financial services. The Ontario corporate group's areas of expertise also include financings and reorganisations. The practice benefits from strong relationships and experience in the investment funds and asset management space.
Prema Thiele and Subrata Bhattacharjee are key contacts for clients.
Work Highlights
- The team at Borden Ladner Gervais supported the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation in its debt financing programme, which included the issuance of CAD5 billionin mortgage bonds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Borden Ladner Gervais have been our go-to M&A lawyers in Canada. They're terrific value and fantastic on delivering outcomes."
"BLG are experts in Canadian corporate law and I think the team is prompt and delivers on client service."
"Advice from BLG was always timely, highly relevant and useful to resolving the issue at hand."
"Borden Ladner Gervais have been our go-to M&A lawyers in Canada. They're terrific value and fantastic on delivering outcomes."
"BLG are experts in Canadian corporate law and I think the team is prompt and delivers on client service."
"Advice from BLG was always timely, highly relevant and useful to resolving the issue at hand."
Members
Provided by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Andrew Powers
Anthony Milazzo
Cameron MacDonald
Frank Callaghan
Graham King
Julie Mansi
Manoj Pundit
Nick Pasquino
Prema Thiele
Stefan Timms
Timothy McCormick