Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Partner and Co-Leader, Healthcare Group

Nick practises corporate and commercial law and serves as a trusted advisor to key clients of the Firm.

Nick has been recognized for his practical business and legal advice and for leading teams to successfully implement large or complex legal projects.

Nick has significant expertise handling mergers & acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, partnerships, reorganizations and divestitures. He also advises U.S. and international businesses on entering the Canadian market and he is skilled at coordinating Canada-wide support to ensure clients receive expert advice on all aspects of doing business in Canada, whatever the sector, and across provinces and territories.

In recent years, a significant portion of Nick’s practice has involved representing large charities, not-for-profits and other “broader public sector” organizations on a variety of strategic transactions, including:

Public Hospitals and other Health Services Providers structuring and implementing transactions that integrate Ontario’s health care system developing system capacity through novel and innovative arrangements advising on capital redevelopment projects and public-private partnerships developing alternative revenue generation strategies that do not jeopardize tax exempt status advising on financings (both traditional borrowing facilities and capital markets/debenture financing) advising on real property acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and partnerships advising on research collaborations (including university/hospital arrangements, commercialization of intellectual property and investments in early-stage ventures) advising on arrangements with foundations, auxiliaries, volunteer associations, research institutes and other similar entities advising on all aspects of health sector governance advising various Supervisors of hospitals (including Kevin Empey, Altaf Stationwala, David Musyj and Carmine Stumpo) appointed pursuant to the Public Hospitals Act Higher Education structuring arrangements between universities, their foundations and other related entities structuring revenue generation activities (including: executive education, student housing, commercialization of research, etc.) financings advising on all aspects of university governance Municipal advising municipalities of their rights and obligations under the Housing Services Act, including exercising statutory remedies (managing projects in difficulty) and restructuring housing services providers advising housing services providers in respect of strategic transactions

Within BLG, Nick is a Partner and Co-Leader, Heathcare Group. He is a member of the firm's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiative.

He is also the Co-Chair of BLG's Health Sector Services Group, and regularly provides advice to boards, committees and senior management on sensitive, complex or strategically imperative matters.

Nick is a sought-after speaker and educator, having participated as a member of the Ontario Hospital Association's teaching faculty where he has taught the “Essentials Certificate in Governance for New Directors” and other governance courses since 2014.

Nick summered and articled with BLG and, as a student, he was seconded to the General Counsel’s office of Scotiabank.

Professional Involvement Director of several Canadian private corporations Member, Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association Member, Law Society of Upper Canada Member, Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association Member, Institute of Corporate Directors Former Adjunct Professor, intensive course in mergers and acquisitions, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, and former lecturer, Advanced Business Law, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor

Education Certificate, Accelerated Leadership Program, Harvard Law School, 2018 LLB, University of Western Ontario, 2008 BA (Hons., with Distinction) in International Relations and Political Science, University of Toronto, 2005 Bar Admission Ontario, 2009

Community Involvement Volunteer, BLG Reads to Kids Program Director and former President of the La Rocca Memorial Society General Counsel (pro bono) to Community Food Centres Canada Former Member, Community Giving Committee, Mackenzie Health Foundation Former Co-Chair (2015-2018) of the United Way of Greater Toronto fundraising campaign in the BLG Toronto office