Borden Ladner Gervais LLP leverages the full bench strength of over 800 lawyers across 5 national locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, to advise national and international corporates and financial institutions involved in high-value, cross-border transactions. The group's active client base spans such sectors as media, tech, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and mining, financial services, retail and transport. The group’s comprehensive service covers complex M&A, joint venture agreements, corporate finance, corporate governance and shareholder activism. The practice is headed by national group head of corporate and capital markets Prema Thiele in Toronto, who draws on over 30 years assisting international fund managers, portfolio managers and dealers with legal and compliance issues; corporate and commercial national business leader Subrata Bhattacharjee (also Toronto); and national business leader of securities and capital markets leader Kent Kufeldt in Vancouver and Calgary. Frazer House joined the Toronto office from Torys in March 2023.
Key clients
- POSCO Canada Limited
- Elliott Investment Management, Patient Square Capital and Veritas Capital
- Pan American Silver Corp.
- KDDI Canada
- Occidental | Oxy Low Carbon Ventures
- Franklin Resources | Franklin Templeton
- Alcumus Group Limited
- Epiroc AB
- Guardian Capital Group Limited
- Giampaolo Group / Matalco
- Global Fuels
- Northland Power
- Morguard Corporation / InnVest Hotels
- Mercer Global Investments Canada
- Sterling Group
- Bell Canada
- Next
Work highlights
- Advised POSCO Canada Limited on the $9bn sale of Teck Resources Limited.
- Represented a consortium of private investment firm affiliates on the C$7.1 billion acquisition of Syneos Health.
- Advised Werfen on its acquisition of Immucor, a privately held US-based company in the in vitro diagnostics sector, for approximately $2bn.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Prema Thiele, Subrata Bhattacharjee, Kent Kufeldt