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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices

World Exchange Plaza
100 Queen Street, Suite 1300
Ottawa, ON K1P 1J9
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Nadia Effendi

Work Department
Dispute Resolution: Ontario
Position
Partner
Career
Nadia represents a wide range of clients in both English and French, in complex and often high profile proceedings, including class actions, administrative, regulatory, constitutional, and human rights law cases.
Nadia has represented clients in industries including transportation, financial services, broadcasting and telecommunications, energy, and entertainment, and has particular subject-matter expertise in transportation law, electoral law, access to information and official language rights.
Nadia regularly appears before all levels of federal and provincial courts, administrative tribunals, and commissions of inquiry, and has appeared numerous times before the Supreme Court of Canada. Nadia is a member of the CBA Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee. She is the chair of BLG’s Appellate Advocacy and Public Law Group and serves as the Regional Manager of the Commercial Litigation and Construction Group in Toronto. She is also a member and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO), as well as a member of the Ontario Bar Association Official Languages Committee. Prior to joining BLG, Nadia served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada to The Honourable Mr. Justice Bastarache.
Languages
English and French
Memberships
- Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (2024-present)
- Vice-President, Fédération des associations de juristes d’expression française de common law inc., 2023-present
- Secretary, Appellate Advocacy Practice Group, The Advocates’ Society
- Chair, Interventions Committee, Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario
- Member, The Advocates Society, 2020-Present
- Past Member, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)’s Law Program Committee
- Member, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association
- Member, County of Carleton Law Association
- Former Member, Canadian Bar Association, Federal Court Bench and Bar Association, 2019-present
- Member, Divisional Court Users’ Committee, 2019-present
- Member, Organizing Committee of the Judicial Assistants of the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2020 Conference
- Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee, 2021-Present
- Member, TAS Appellate Advocacy Practice Group
- Past Member, Official Language Committee, Ontario Bar Association
Education
- LLB (summa cum laude, gold medalist), University of Ottawa, 2003
Bar Admission
- Ontario, 2004
Personal
- Past director and secretary, Citizen Advocacy (a charity that helps people with disabilities participate more fully in community life)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property