Lorne W. Segal

About Lorne W. Segal

Lorne W. Segal is a senior partner in Gowling WLG's Ottawa office whose work covers mergers and acquisitions, corporate commercial matters, lending and corporate finance, and insolvency and restructuring. Clients run from owner-operated businesses to multinationals, public and private. On the M&A side, Segal concentrates on mid-market deals and acts for buyers and sellers alike, and a good share of it is Canadian deal work for multinational companies.

Segal's career began in 1986, the year of the Ontario call, as an associate at Goodman and Carr. Partnership there followed in 1994, and by 1998 Segal was heading that firm's corporate commercial department. The move to Gowlings came in 2000 as a partner. Since then Segal has sat on the firm's Board of Trustees and spent four years as Firm Managing Partner, Internal, with a seat on the Executive Committee. It was also Segal who structured, negotiated and closed the deal joining Gowlings with UK-based Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co., which created Gowling WLG.

Outside the office, Segal is Chair and President of the Ottawa Jewish Community School's board of directors, and earlier served on the boards of Ronald McDonald House and the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. Segal holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, has taught corporate commercial topics in the Law Society of Upper Canada's Bar Admission Course, and works in both English and French.