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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Corporate/Commercial: The Elite

Canada Guide 2026 : Ontario


Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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

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Corporate/Commercial: The Elite - Ontario

Band 3

Band 3


What the Team is Known For

Borden Ladner Gervais' Ontario corporate team advises clients on the whole gamut of business-related matters. The firm serves as counsel to many high-profile companies in Canada across mergers and acquisitions, securities and capital markets. The team acts for a diverse portfolio of clients, including those in the retail, energy and financial services industries.

Work Highlights

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  • Borden Ladner Gervais advised Forum Real Estate Income and Impact Fund on its acquisition of the assets of Alignvest Student Housing Real Estate Investment Trust.

Strengths

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  • The team are very good, business-minded lawyers.

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  • BLG is highly skilled, knowledgeable and organised.

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  • BLG is prompt and responsive and they understand our business and structure well.

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  • We seek BLG's counsel specifically when we need pragmatic advice.

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  • BLG is incredibly organised in considering next steps and plans. At times, they were more on the ball about status and next steps than we were.

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Members

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  • Frank Callaghan

  • Graham King

  • Cameron MacDonald

  • Julie Mansi

  • Timothy McCormick

  • Anthony Milazzo

  • Andrew Powers

  • Nick Pasquino

  • Manoj Pundit

  • Prema Thiele

  • Stefan Timms

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