With extensive experience in government contracting, supply chain and procurement matters, Ross helps clients cut through the complexities of negotiations
M. Ross Langley is Counsel and Strategic Advisor with McCarthy Tétrault based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With decades of experience in federal and provincial government matters including procurement and contract negotiations, Ross helps clients quickly identify the critical facts and find effective, practical solutions.
As a senior executive and General Counsel of a large group of diversified companies in defense, manufacturing, transportation, natural resources, construction and retail, Ross has helped shape and execute corporate strategies across multiple areas while managing the law, insurance/risk, pensions and benefits and other corporate functions.
Ross has led teams of internal and external advisors through negotiations with senior government officials and through multifaceted, cross-border commercial transactions and litigation, including in the U.S., Europe and the UK. He has led a variety of complex corporate transactions.
He is a former partner at a large law firm based in Atlantic Canada, where he practiced labour and employment law with extensive experience in strategic labour advice, dispute resolution and collective language bargaining. His background as both a legal and business advisor, as well as serving as a senior executive, give him a unique understanding of clients’ internal realities.
Committed to staying ahead of legal and industry trends, Ross completed the Harvard Mediation Intensive certificate course, as well as the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Corporate Governance Program through the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He completed INSEAD’s International Corporate Governance certificate program in April 2024.
He earned a Master of Law (Corporate Law) from Osgoode Hall, and a combined four-year JD/MBA degree at Dalhousie University, and an undergraduate degree at Acadia University. He was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1990.