Auto Industry Focus Group
The Auto Industry Focus Group is a national cross-disciplinary team of more than 50 lawyers and other professionals with expertise in legal and regulatory areas of interest to clients in the auto industry. At BLG we have decades of experience in serving manufacturers, distributors, dealers, financial institutions and other services that support the auto and motorized recreational products industries. We offer our clients “one stop shopping” across all areas of the law through top practitioners who know the auto industry and its needs and have a history of finding effective solutions to the industry’s problems.
At BLG our mission is client service. The Group provides seamless legal and other support services across Canada to its clients. The right lawyers and other professionals from all of our offices are assigned to cases, in consultation with the client, taking into account the location of the problem, the nature of the case and the experience and expertise required to provide timely, superior advice and service at a reasonable price.
Members of the Group have experience in the following areas:
Litigation and Dispute Resolution:
- Commercial disputes
- Dealer litigation including NADAP arbitrations
- Product liability defence
- Coroner’s inquests
- Tax litigation
- Customs disputes
- Shipping disputes
- Insurance coverage
- Directors and officers liability
- Patent and trademark infringement
- Administrative and regulatory disputes
- Employment and labour disputes and injunctions
- Securities litigation
- White collar crime
- Environmental offences
- Construction and building disputes
Corporate Commercial:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Securities
- Financial services
- Securitizations
- Pensions
- Bankruptcy and insolvency
- Corporate structure and compliance
- Advertising and Contests
- Product recalls
- IT agreements
- Outsourcing
- Employment
- Immigration
- Privacy
- Government relations
- Government procurement
- Commercial real estate
- Commercial leasing
- Construction and building agreements
- Tax
- Transfer pricing
- Trade and anti dumping
- Competition
Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Design
- Copyright
- Trade secrets
- Intellectual Property (cont’d)
- Grey market
- Brand protection






