WHAT WE DO

Around the world, cleantech companies are harnessing new technology to change the way we use energy and resources. Their discoveries are reducing our environmental footprint by making energy use cleaner and more efficient, reducing emissions and waste, purifying contaminated water sources and cleaning up the earth’s soil.

Gowlings is a leading provider of legal and business services to cleantech companies. We deliver unique solutions by creating multi-disciplinary teams with the right combination of expertise to help you raise capital, protect your inventions, access government technology support programs, develop commercialization strategies, and navigate federal and provincial legislation and regulations.

The Gowlings' Cleantech group includes professionals from its Technology, Energy, Infrastructure, Government Affairs, and Life Sciences industry groups as well as our Environmental Practice Group to deliver a variety of sector expertise including:

• Soil remediation
• Water and wastewater management
• Waste management
• Biofuels
• Alternate energy
• Renewable energy
• Smart Grid
• Power generation
• Climate change
• Carbon market
• Fuel cells

As part of one of Canada’s leading national business law firms, we assist cleantech companies by leveraging our strength in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, environmental, tax, employment, privacy, intellectual property, government relations and regulatory affairs, and other legal issues facing today's cleantech companies.

Gowlings is also a founding sponsor of CleanTech North (CTN), an organization that works with promising clean technology companies to help accelerate trajectory to global markets. CleanTech North brings together world-class expertise in various areas of business, law, accountancy, engineering, manufacturing and other professional services to give community members market guidance and access to best practices.

With experience, insight and proven client results, you can trust Gowlings to meet the challenges and opportunities of your cleantech initiatives.