Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's Ontario disputes practice specializes in diverse contentious mandates that include class actions and white collar defence, commercial fraud investigations, competition litigation and banking and securities litigation. Companies from the retail, mining, financial services and automotive sectors routinely feature on the group’s client roster. Three partners share leadership: David Di Paolo and Nadia Effendi are based at the Toronto office, while Kathleen McDormand is based in Ottawa. Di Paolo specializes in securities litigation, class actions and shareholder disputes; Effendi majors on class actions, and administrative, regulatory and constitutional law; McDormand covers breach of contract cases, professional negligence matters and banking litigation matters.