Laura Levine > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Partner and national leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) initiative.

Career

Laura practices corporate and securities law with a focus on public companies and capital markets. She advises clients on a wide range of complex securities law matters, including corporate finance, corporate governance, continuous disclosure, public mergers and acquisition, and securities regulatory compliance. Laura’s client service strategy revolves around her deep understanding of the law and ability to ask the right questions to understand clients’ goals and provide tailored and practical solutions.

In addition to her work on transactional matters, Laura plays a lead role in the development and management of innovative legal content and current awareness materials, contributes to practice group and firm wide education initiatives, and monitors legal, regulatory and market developments with the goal of ensuring that BLG lawyers and clients benefit from the firm’s collective and cutting-edge legal expertise.

Laura is the co-chair of BLG’s Modern Slavery Taskforce, focused on unifying the firm on the newly enacted Fighting Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, New York State Bar Association
  • Instructor, Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario (2023 Fellowship Securities Law Course)

Education

  • Certificate, ESG, Climate Risk and The Law, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2021
  • J.D. (magna cum laude), University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, 2010
  • LL.B., University of Windsor, 2010
  • B.A., University of British Columbia, 2007

Bar Admission

  • New York, 2014
  • Ontario, 2011

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Capital markets

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP’s capital markets practice has a focus on the mid-market space, which ensures a steady stream of smaller offerings — both debt and equity. Led from Vancouver by Kent Kufeldt, who consistently represents both issuers and underwriters, the department also draws on Vancouver-based mining head Fred Pletcher. The Toronto team was recently boosted by the hires of Timothy McCormick and counsel Laura Levine, who both joined as partners from Stikeman Elliott LLP. Additionally, Frazer House joined as a partner from Torys, where he was an associate.