Asif Lasani

About Asif Lasani

Universities, school boards, hospitals and hydro utilities are among the public and quasi-public institutions that call on Asif Lasani when a commercial, administrative or regulatory dispute comes up. Asif is a partner at Gowling WLG in Hamilton, with a practice built around disputes and remedies for clients in education, health and the commercial world. A big part of that work is helping those institutions understand their rights and duties under Ontario's information and privacy statutes, the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act and the Expropriations Act, whether a dispute is already underway or only looming.

After a B.Comm. (Hons.) at McMaster University in 2002, Asif earned an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in 2005 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2007. Today the courtroom side of the practice runs from the Superior Court of Ontario, appeals included, to Provincial Offences Court and a range of provincial tribunals, and Asif also sits on the other side of the table as counsel to tribunals themselves.

Construction is a recurring thread. When Ontario set out to amend its Construction Act, Asif co-wrote a November 2024 piece on the proposed changes and then joined colleagues for two webinars, in December 2024 and January 2026, taking on the technical and housekeeping amendments both times. Earlier talks include one on interim adjudication of construction payment disputes for the Hamilton Law Association and another on joint ventures for the Waterloo Law Association.

Away from files, Asif serves as a director of Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton and belongs to the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Best Lawyers named Asif its 2027 Lawyer of the Year for Corporate and Commercial Litigation in Hamilton.