Borden Ladner Gervais LLP draws on the full bench strength of over 800 lawyers across 5 national locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, to provide major domestic and international mining companies, public and private issuers, underwriters and institutional investors, with a comprehensive range of services across the practice area. They cover M&A, joint ventures, streaming, project finance, due diligence, in addition to environmental, tax and Indigenous matters. The national team is led by Fred Pletcher in Vancouver, who brings over 30 years of mining industry experience to assisting clients with development projects, acquisitions and dispositions, exploration properties and option agreements. Other key figures include Graeme Martindale also in Vancouver) who specializes in initial public offerings, public and private equity and debt financings, and compliance and corporate governance matters; and M&A and corporate finance expert Timothy McCormick in Toronto.

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Key clients

  • Pan American Silver Corp.
  • Ressources Québec
  • Cameco Corporation
  • Eldorado Gold Corporation
  • Imperial Metals Corporation
  • Kinross Gold Corp.
  • POSCO Canada Limited.
  • Sandstorm Gold
  • Bear Creek Mining Corporation
  • BMO Capital Markets
  • CIBC Capital Markets
  • TD Securities
  • National Bank Financial
  • Lumina Gold Corp.
  • Luminex Resources Corp.
  • Cormark Securities
  • Almaden Minerals
  • IDM Mining

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Fred Pletcher

Other key lawyers

Graeme Martindale, Tim McCormick