About

The in-house legal department at Bell Canada, the largest communications company in Canada and part of the BCE Corporation, is led by senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary Michel Lalande. Bell Canada operates across the telecoms sector providing 4G LTE wireless technology through Bell Mobility and Virgin Mobile Canada, Bell Fibre Internet, TV and Satellite TV as well as home phone services. It is a major technological innovator and source of cloud computing and data storage software in the corporate, wholesale and private markets. The team expertly guides the company to success through its obligations and risks in all of these areas as well as its media company, Bell Media, and its specialty legal needs. In the past year, the legal team has worked on numerous notable projects including the announcement of a C$500,000 fund to support the Bell MTS Innovations Agriculture Program at the University of Manitoba, promoting the development of broadband internet of things solutions to the agricultural sector. Additionally, the team also assisted the company in launching Canada’s first cloud-based Virtual Network Services platform in 2018.