About Christiane McGovern

Christiane McGovern is a partner in the Business Law Department at Gowling WLG in Ottawa, with a broad corporate commercial practice where technology, telecommunications and corporate governance carry the most weight. Christiane's focus areas at the firm also take in data centres, nuclear work and tax-exempt entities.

An Ottawa native, Christiane earned a B.Sc. at McGill University in 2011, where the field of study was environmental sciences. A JD from Queen's University followed in 2015, and the call to the Ontario bar came in 2016. Christiane has spent time inside in-house legal teams, too: as a summer student in Hydro Ottawa's legal department, and on secondment to the legal department of a large telecommunications company. In January 2023, Christiane joined Gowling WLG's partnership as part of the Corporate group in Ottawa.

Boards and the organizations they run are the other big part of the practice. Christiane works closely with several not-for-profit and Crown corporations, and not-for-profit clients in particular turn to Christiane for help with corporate structure and the duties directors owe. Clients can work with Christiane in English or French.

Gardens run in the family. Christiane was raised among garden lovers, later started a gardening committee at the condominium Christiane calls home, and now sits on the board of the Canadensis Botanical Garden Society as its Secretary.

Practice areas

Business & Corporate Law

Technology and telecom agreements

Christiane prepares, negotiates and advises on deals for cloud computing, software services and data centres, along with data security terms and telecom arrangements for fibre optic and collocation services.

General commercial contracts

Outside technology, Christiane's contract work covers agreements for goods and services, intellectual property rights and other everyday commercial arrangements.

Governance for not-for-profit and Crown corporations

Christiane advises not-for-profit corporations and Crown corporations on governance, commercial and strategic board matters, and guides not-for-profits on corporate structure and directors' duties.

Education & credentials

  • JD, Queen's University, Faculty of Law (2015)
  • B.Sc., McGill University (2011)
  • Called to the bar of Ontario (2016)

Memberships & affiliations

In the community

  • Christiane sits on the organizing committee for Skifest, the annual fundraising event for Ronald McDonald House.
  • From 2015 to 2018, Christiane was a member of the City of Ottawa's Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee.
  • At Gowling WLG, Christiane helps with mentoring and with professional development programs that run nationally across the firm.

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