Borden Ladner Gervais

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Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) is a Canadian law firm with a fintech practice advising financial institutions, payment networks and fintech companies. The firm has offices in Calgary, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, and states that it has more than 800 lawyers across Canada. Its fintech work includes regulatory and product-design advice on consumer lending, buy-now-pay-later, payment card acquiring and processing, prepaid card programmes, crypto trading platforms and anti-money laundering compliance. Matters listed on its site include advising PayBright on its acquisition by Affirm, representing Central 1 Credit Union on a mobile debit payment application and assisting Fiserv with its acquisition of SpendLabs. It also lists corporate finance work for fintech and digital-asset companies, including ZayZoon's Series B financing.