diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/pom.xml
index a4eee5074e..921a606adf 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/pom.xml
@@ -95,6 +95,28 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
       <artifactId>gax-grpc</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+          <artifactId>grpc-xds</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+          <artifactId>grpc-services</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.google.re2j</groupId>
+          <artifactId>re2j</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
+          <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
+          <artifactId>opencensus-proto</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.threeten</groupId>