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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP has experts who can provide legal and business commentary on a wide variety of industry sectors and business issues. To speak to an expert in any of the following areas, please contact Carol Hall.

Aboriginal Law Arts, Entertainment & Media law Advertising & Sponsorship
Capital Markets Charities & Not for Profits Class Actions
Business Advisory Communications Competition Law (Anti-trust law)
Constitutional Law Construction, Real Estate and Infrastructure Corporate Governance
Corporate Law Energy (electricity, oil & gas, etc) Environmental
Financial Institutions Food & Drug Franchise Law
Fraud Government Relations Health Law
Immigration (Business) International Trade Intellectual Property
International Tax Internet/Cyber Law Labour & Employment
Libel & Slander Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions
Municipal Mutual Funds Natural Resources
Pensions & Benefits Public Private Partnerships Privacy
Privatization Product Liability Real Estate
Regulatory Issues Securities Tax
Technology Telecommunications Transportation (marine, aviation, shipping etc.)
Venture Capital Wealth Management

Aboriginal Law

Arts, Entertainment & Media law

Advertising & Sponsorship

Capital Markets

  • Broker liability and compliance
  • Private and public financings
  • Cross-border financings
  • Market policy
  • Corporate governance
  • Directors’ and officers’ liability
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Litigation Group
  • Structured finance and leasing
  • Tax
  • Venture capital

Charities & Not for Profits

Class Actions

Business Advisory

  • Structure and organization of businesses
  • Shareholder, joint venture, partnership and related agreements
  • Financing methods
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate disclosure
  • Stock exchange listings
  • Corporate compliance
  • Acquisitions, mergers and divestitures
  • Provincial and federal business regulations

Communications

  • Policy
  • Regulations

Competition Law (Anti-trust law)

  • Policy
  • Regulatory
  • Litigation
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Constitutional Law

  • Supreme Court
  • Aboriginal Law
  • Biotechnology
  • Employment
  • Charter of Rights
  • Freedom of expression
  • Language rights
  • Investigative powers
  • Due process rights

Construction, Real Estate and Infrastructure

Corporate Governance

  • Board of Directors
  • Disclosure
  • Directors and officers’ duties and liabilities

Corporate Law

  • Formation and organization of corporations and other businesses
  • Reorganizations and restructuring
  • Share-based compensation plans
  • Tax
  • Compliance
  • Litigation

Energy (electricity, oil & gas, etc)

  • Finance
  • Regulatory issues
  • Policy

Environmental

  • Forestry
  • Litigation
  • Real estate
  • Policy
  • Regulation

Financial Institutions

  • Regulatory
  • Policy
  • Insurance
  • Litigation
  • Professional and fiduciary liability

Food & Drug

  • Biotechnology
  • Clinical trials
  • Ethics
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Pharmaceutical

Franchise Law

Fraud

  • Litigation
  • Corporate fraud
  • Employee fraud

Government Relations

Health Law

Immigration (Business)

International Trade

Intellectual Property

  • Patents
  • Trademarks
  • Copyright
  • Industrial Design
  • Domain name disputes
  • Litigation

International Tax

  • Corporate tax
  • Structured finance
  • Transfer pricing
  • Venture funds
  • Wealth management
  • Pensions/employee benefits
  • Commodity tax
  • Tax litigation

Internet/Cyber Law

Labour & Employment

  • Labour relations
  • Wrongful dismissal
  • Employment law and litigation
  • Pensions and benefits

Libel & Slander

Litigation

  • Alternative dispute resolution/mediation/arbitration
  • Class actions
  • Corporate commercial
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Product Liability
  • Securities
  • Supreme Court
  • Regulatory

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Finance
  • Hostile takeovers
  • Litigation
  • Strategy
  • Regulatory
  • Tax

Municipal

Mutual Funds

  • Business
  • Regulatory
  • Administrative issues
  • Fund governance

Natural Resources

  • Forestry & Mining
  • Regulation
  • Policy
  • Environmental

Pensions & Benefits

Public Private Partnerships

Privacy

  • Policy
  • Regulations

Privatization

Product Liability

  • Privacy
  • Policy
  • Regulations

Real Estate

  • Contractual disputes
  • Debtor-creditor relations
  • Distribution and franchising agreements
  • Financing
  • Commercial leases
  • Expropriations
  • Assessments

Regulatory Issues

  • Competition
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Financial
  • Telecommunications

Securities

  • Shareholder rights and remedies
  • Take over bids
  • Proxy fights
  • Shareholders’ rights plans (“poison pill”) hearings
  • Oppression claims
  • Derivative actions
  • Shareholders’ class actions
  • Plans of arrangement and corporate reorganizations
  • Officers’ and Directors’ Liability

Tax

  • Corporate
  • Federal/Provincial budget
  • International
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Restructuring and Bankruptcy
  • Securities
  • Tax Policy

Technology

  • Finance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Internet
  • Hospital Technology

Telecommunications

Transportation (marine, aviation, shipping etc.)

  • Policy
  • Regulation

Venture Capital

  • Financing
  • Industry Associations/Regulatory Matters
  • Fund Formation

Wealth Management

  • Wills
  • Estates
  • Trusts
  • Trust, Estate and Incapacity Dispute Resolution


 
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