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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Corporate/M&A

Canada Guide 2026 : Nationwide - Canada

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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/M&A - Nationwide - Canada

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Borden Ladner Gervais enjoys a sterling reputation for the strength of its corporate law practice, with clients benefiting from an expert bench of transactional specialists with a strong track record in domestic and cross-border M&A. The firm demonstrates significant expertise in the energy and natural resource sector, alongside additional skills in agribusiness, life sciences and technology matters. To support its national reach, the firm has offices in Calgary, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.

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Work Highlights

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  • Borden Ladner Gervais advised Asahi Kasei on the development of a CAD1.56 billion lithium-ion battery separator plant in Ontario.

Strengths

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

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

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  • The firm provides deep legal expertise and a commercial, problem-solving approach.

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  • BLG is collaborative and works tirelessly to get the deal done. They are a true partner on cross-border deals and do an outstanding job.

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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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  • Fred Pletcher

  • Kent Kufeldt

  • Andrew Powers

  • Stefan Timms

  • Manoj Pundit

  • Neil Hazan

  • Pascale Dionne

  • Ravi Latour

  • Timothy McCormick

  • Victoria Prince

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