He is a Toronto partner, financial services group member, outgoing partnership board chair
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has announced the appointment of Gus Karantzoulis – a financial services group member and partner in the Toronto office – as the firm’s national group head, specialized business law.
Karantzoulis has been Toronto regional leader of the firm’s structured finance and securitization group. He joined the firm’s partnership board in 2019, became its chair in 2023, and is now its outgoing chair, according to BLG’s news release.
In his new role as a group head, he belongs to the firm’s national management committee. He will help develop the firm’s general direction and operations and assist its national specialized business law group with its business strategy, financial performance, and client service delivery.
“On behalf of all members of the firm, I want to thank Gus for his ongoing leadership and service to BLG, and congratulate him on this new appointment,” said David Di Paolo, BLG’s national managing partner and new chief executive officer, in the news release.
Karantzoulis takes over from Stephen Redican, who held the position for two terms, starting in 2019. Redican was previously a partnership board member and Toronto regional group manager for specialized business law.
“We thank Stephen for his leadership and significant contributions to the group and the firm over the past several years,” BLG’s news release said.
Karantzoulis’ biography on the firm’s website provides more information on his professional and educational background.
Also fluent in Greek, Karantzoulis works in lending, banking, bank mergers and acquisitions, structured finance and securitization, project and infrastructure finance, real estate lending and financing, private equity, and debt capital markets.
“His extensive experience and strategic insight will continue to strengthen our focus on client service across the country,” Di Paolo said in BLG’s news release.
Karantzoulis has been a member of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the American Bar Association’s business law section, and the Hellenic Canadian Lawyers Association.
He joined the Ontario bar in 2002. He earned his LLB from the University of Toronto and his MBA from its Rotman School of Management in 2000. In 1996, he received his BComm with high distinction, also from the University of Toronto.
