On July 17, 2024, Drillform Technical Services Ltd. ("Drillform") was acquired by Roughneck Holding Inc., a subsidiary of HMH, a global drilling equipment product and services group of companies.

Drillform specializes in the design and manufacturing of automated drilling equipment for the drilling industry and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

Gowling WLG advised Drillform with a team which included Steve Will (corporate/M&A) and Tom Cumming (restructuring), and included Zafar Jaffer (corporate/M&A), Melanie Condic (corporate/M&A), Paul Carenza (tax) and Stephen Kroeger (restructuring), with the support of Alison Gray, Simanpreet Panaych, Arielle Fewer, Bailey Russell, Jada Perkins and Mack Dumba.