Nadia Effendi

Borden Ladner Gervais

Partner & National Business Leader, Disputes - Commercial and Construction

Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON, M5H 4E3

+1 416 367 6728

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Practice area:

Class action
Commercial
Government and regulatory


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 National Business Lead of the Disputes - Commercial and Construction group. 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.