Environmental prosecution and regulatory inspections/investigations
We regularly advise clients on best practices for responding to regulatory inspections and investigations, to help clients comply with all applicable environmental laws. We also have experience at every stage of the enforcement process and have represented clients in prosecutions under most Canadian environmental regulatory statutes.
We help clients navigate the environmental risks and regulatory requirements associated with business and property transactions, ensuring they make informed decisions while mitigating potential liabilities. Our team provides comprehensive risk assessments and advice to proponents of major projects located in a variety of settings and subject to any number of jurisdictional environmental assessment regimes including those of the provincial, territorial, and federal governments.
Environmental transactions
Untangling complexity, delivering results
If you’re in a carbon-intensive industry or a large emitter, we can help you understand climate change legislation and regulations.
Climate Change
Our lawyers practice in all areas of environmental compliance, and we have advised clients on a broad range of issues, including those related to permitting, zoning, compliance matters, and regulatory requirements. The team’s expertise and experience – while grounded in environmental law – allows them to work seamlessly in areas such as energy and mining and as well as matters with Indigenous rights’ elements.
Environmental Compliance
Public law may be esoteric, but
we never get lost in the weeds. Our advice is rooted in a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ businesses, mandates, and goals, including avoiding costly penalties and litigation. As Canada’s Law Firm, we have a strong national presence in every regulated sector, from banking to rail, giving our clients a winning combination of industry knowledge and public law expertise.
Practical to the core
BLG’s public law team members are Best Lawyers winners, Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Chambers Band 1-ranked litigators and Benchmark Litigation Stars with deep government-specific knowledge and highly respected expertise in the complexities of administrative and constitutional law, including Indigenous title and the Charter of Rights.
The dream team
You name it, we’ve done it. We’ve represented household names like Amazon before tribunals and commissions and at every level of government and type of regulator and provided counsel to public institutions such as the Chief Electoral Officer and interveners at the Supreme Court like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Expertise across the board
Public law may seem esoteric,
but we never get lost in the
weeds. Our advice is rooted in a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ businesses, mandates, and goals, including avoiding costly penalties and litigation.
As Canada’s Law Firm, we have a strong national presence in every regulated sector, from banking to rail, giving our clients a winning combination of industry knowledge and public law expertise.
Practical to the core
You name it, we’ve done it. We’ve appeared before regulators and at every level of court, including the Federal courts and Supreme Court of Canada. We are trusted by household names like Amazon and CN. We lead public inquiries, advise public institutions like the Chief Electoral Officer, and represent public interest groups like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Expertise across the board
BLG’s public law team members are Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Chambers-ranked and Lexpert recognized litigators, and Benchmark Litigation Stars
with highly-respected expertise
in the complexities of administrative and constitutional law, including Indigenous title
and the Charter.
The team you need
BLG’s public law team members are Best Lawyers winners, Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Chambers Band 1-ranked litigators and Benchmark Litigation Stars with deep government-specific knowledge and highly respected expertise in the complexities of administrative and constitutional law, including Indigenous title and the Charter of Rights.
The dream team
You name it, we’ve done it. We’ve represented household names like Amazon before tribunals and commissions and at every level of government and type of regulator and provided counsel to public institutions such as the Chief Electoral Officer and interveners at the Supreme Court like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Expertise across the board