Grand River Hospital Corporation (GRH) and St. Mary's General Hospital (SMGH), a division of St. Joseph's Health System, completed their strategic merger to form Waterloo Regional Health Network. This merger builds upon over 90 years of collaboration between these hospitals and will provide the Waterloo Region with more efficient and effective care close to home.

BLG represented GRH and SMGH with a team led by Nick Pasquino and included Ryma Nasrallah (Partner, Charity and Income Tax), Laura Costen (Counsel, Corporate), Christine Ferguson (Counsel, Corporate and Infrastructure), Holly Ryan (Senior Associate, Corporate and Health Regulatory), Brennan Carroll (Partner, Real Estate), Courtney Po (Associate, Real Estate), Erin Peters (Senior Associate, Construction), Katharine Byrick (Partner, Health Law), Patrick J. Hawkins (Partner, Health Law), Beverly Gilbert (Partner, Tax), Olivia Ruvo (Associate, Tax), Peter Sullivan (Partner, Financial Services), Paul Murray (Senior Associate, Financial Services), Denes Rothschild (Partner, Competition Regulatory), Ronald Foerster (Senior Counsel, Litigation), Heather Pessione (Partner, Corporate, Governance, Health Law, and Litigation), Maddie Axelrod (Partner, Employment), James Fu (Partner, Employment and Pensions Matters), Kathleen Lemieux (Partner, Intellectual Property), Jason Howg (Partner, Information Technology), Natasha Gulati (Senior Associate, Intellectual Property), Frédéric Wilson (Partner, Privacy), Katherine Stanger (Senior Associate, Privacy), Gabrielle Kramer (Partner, Environmental), Franz Lopez (Counsel, Environmental).