Legal moves in 2015 are heating up.Jesper Elgaard/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Mining and corporate finance lawyer Avril Cole has left Norton Rose Fulbright LLP to join Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.
Ms. Cole joins Gowlings' corporate finance and mergers-and-acquisitions group in the firm's Toronto office as a partner. Gowlings said in a statement that she has a particular focus on Africa and on dealing with governments and regulators.
"Her unique skill set and extensive relationships internationally, particularly in Africa, make her an invaluable adviser to any client considering developing or financing a mining project," said Scott Jolliffe, chairman and chief executive officer of Gowlings, in a statement.
Meanwhile, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP announced Monday that prominent Montreal privacy and information-technology lawyer Éloïse Gratton has left McMillan LLP, where she was national co-chair of the firm's privacy group, to join BLG.
The area of privacy law has become a popular topic for law firms, amid seemingly daily headlines about data breaches at major companies.
Ms. Gratton, whose privacy and IT law blog, eloisegratton.com, was recently named best new blog at the Canadian Law Blog Awards, also teaches privacy law at the University of Montreal.