Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

National Managing Partner & CEO: Sean Weir

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), the largest full-service Canadian law firm, is driven to help achieve the best possible results for all its clients. With more than 750 lawyers, intellectual property agents and other legal professionals in six offices, BLG provides corporate, litigation and intellectual property solutions to a wide range of clients nationally and internationally. As a bilingual English-French firm, BLG excels under both the common and civil law systems in Canada.

Understanding your business and how legal changes affect you today and tomorrow is BLG's business. Like you, BLG believes that nothing less than achieving results through excellence will do. This commitment to service has resulted in the frequent recognition of many of its legal professionals at home and abroad. In addition to appearing in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, BLG is featured consistently in other national and international legal publications, including The Best Lawyers in Canada 2012 (copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) and Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business. The Firm's record and reputation have also led to it being recognized with a Go-To Law Firm (registered trade-mark of ALM Media, LLC) designation for Fortune 500 companies for six straight years.

BLG provides insight and clarity to regional, national and multinational corporations across a variety of business sectors. The Firm is proud to represent public institutions such as universities, governments and governmental agencies, and health care facilities, as well as private business, trade and charitable groups. The Firm also takes great pride in the communities in which its professionals and staff live and work. BLG supports a variety of activities by providing pro bono legal services, fundraising and volunteer programs, such as the BLG Reads to Kids Program.

BLG serves clients in all areas of a modern law practice, including specialized areas of expertise.