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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded

Canada Guide 2026 : Alberta

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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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

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Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded - Alberta

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Borden Ladner Gervais is a national law firm that advises on the full spectrum of corporate transactions, with strong capabilities in M&A, debt financing, energy projects, and securities regulatory matters in Alberta. Its diverse industry experience spans oil and gas, energy and cannabis. The department handles both domestic and cross-border transactions.

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Work Highlights

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  • Borden Ladner Gervais represented Bonterra Energy Corporation, as issuer, in its senior secured lien note offering.

Strengths

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  • We bring our more complex deals to BLG because they can help us sift through the pieces and determine what is important.

    Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded respondentCanada

  • The team has a high degree of client attention.

    Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded respondentCanada

  • The BLG team is highly knowledgeable, with access to firm-wide expertise and great communication.

    Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded respondentCanada

  • The BLG team is extremely responsive, very knowledgeable and has strong technical experience.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Louise Lee
    Louise Lee

    Louise Lee

    Louise Lee is increasingly noted for her activity in the transactions space, advising clients in a range of industries on M&A and service agreements.

    • Louise Lee is a great lawyer. She's very technical, bright and manages clients well.

      Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded respondentCanada

    • Louise is highly responsive and understands the business well. We have an excellent working relationship and she always delivers on our needs.

      Corporate/Commercial: Highly Regarded respondentCanada
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Ranked Individuals at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (1)

Alberta

Members

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  • Peter Bryan

  • Nav Dhaliwal

  • Jonathan Doll

  • Xiaodi Jin

  • Joel Jones

  • Ravi Latour

  • Robb McNaughton

  • Bruce Lawrence

  • Miles Pittman

  • Michael Saliken

  • Melissa Smith

  • Scott Wilson

  • Bill Woodhead

  • Louise Lee

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