Best Quebec Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Lawyers
Luc Béliveau practises in the areas of restructuring and banking law. Luc was a member of the firm's Partnership Board from 2013 to 2020 and Chairman of the Board from 2015 to 2020. Luc regularly represents debtors, borrowers, lenders, investors, creditors, receivers, monitors and trustees. He defends the interests of clients in restructurings, liquidations, recapitalizations, realizations of security interests, and asset recoveries. Luc sits on the boards of several private corporatio...
Maxime Cantin practises primarily construction law. He has over 20 years of experience in litigating construction disputes, including delay claims, additional costs claims, construction insurance claims, tender issues and engineers errors and omissions. He also has extensive experience in contract review and drafting. He also handles on a regular and continuous basis complex commercial litigation. Mr. Cantin thus regularly represents contractors, owners, commercial tenants, manufacturers, ser...
With more than two decades of dedicated legal experience in restructuring proceedings, Marc-André is a highly respected figure in the Canadian legal community. Throughout his career, he has consistently delivered exceptional results for clients facing complex financial challenges. Marc-André has a deep understanding of Canadian insolvency and bankruptcy law, coupled with extensive experience representing a wide range of clients, including corporations, financial institutions, cr...
Geneviève Cloutier is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law. Geneviève practices law in Montréal, Quebec Best Lawyers has recognized Geneviève Cloutier since 2021. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Geneviève Cloutier is held by other lawyers.
Jonathan Warin is a member of the firm's Commercial Litigation Group and specializes in bankruptcy and insolvency, extraordinary remedies and realizing on security. He regularly intervenes in various insolvency cases, whether to represent institutional lenders, trustees or debtors in a restructuring and liquidation context. Mr. Warin also handles commercial litigation cases of all kinds, particularly shareholder remedies and injunctions. Mr. Warin is Head of Practice Litigation and Conflict R...
Jean Legault is a partner in the Litigation group in the commercial litigation, banking, and insolvency sector and a member of the board of directors of the firm. With more than 23 years’ experience in commercial litigation, he specializes in banking law and insolvency. Listed in the 2017 edition of The Best lawyers in Canada, he primarily advises financial institutions, institutional investors, and trustees in bankruptcy in restructuring and insolvency cases. In these cases, Mr. Legaul...
Jean-Yves Simard is a partner and a member of the board of directors of the firm, who specializes in commercial litigation , bankruptcy and insolvency , extraordinary remedies, and realizing on security. Mr. Simard acts in commercial litigation of all kinds, major insolvency cases, shareholder disputes, securities litigation, liquidation proceedings, injunctions, and cases involving the realization of movable and immovable security. At conferences organized by the Canadian Bar Association, In...
With more than 35 years of experience, Sylvain Rigaud is a leading lawyer in bankruptcy, insolvency, financial restructuring, and related litigation. Sylvain has represented clients across a broad range of industries, including financial services, real estate, natural resources, pulp and paper, mining, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology, retail, aeronautics, construction, aircraft financing, shipping, and admiralty. Sylvain has acted for all types of parties inv...
Alexandre Forest is a member of Gowling WLG Montreal's Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency Group and Commercial Litigation Group, notably construction and real estate law and commercial leasing. He was Bâtonnier (president) of the Montreal Bar in 2019-2020, the youngest to serve as such. His practice involves representing companies in the process of restructuring as well as their creditors and also focuses on various aspects of commercial and civil litigation and real estate. Ale...
Christian Roy's practice focuses primarily on financial restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and realization of bank guarantees. His services are sought by local and international companies with restructuring needs and by court-appointed officers, financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors and purchasers of assets from distressed companies. He has acted for several financial institutions and companies regarding informal workouts and debtor-in-possession financings. Mr. Roy has p...
Nicolas Mancini is a partner in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Insolvency and Restructuring groups, and has been a lawyer at the firm since 2015. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, litigation involving the enforcement of security interests and asset recovery, as well as litigation in the context of bankruptcy and insolvency and the associated restructuring and reorganization proceedings. Nicolas represents clients in a wide range of insolvency-related proceedings, incl...
Mathieu Lévesque is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Group in Gowling WLG's Montréal office. He is also a member of the firm's Financial Institutions & Services and Restructuring & Insolvency groups. Mathieu is a seasoned professional and trusted advisor to the leading financial institutions in Canada. His practice focuses on banking litigation, which includes the defense of class actions, as well as bankruptcy, insolvency and financial restructuring.
The Honourable Clément Gascon joined Woods as Senior Counsel in the Spring of 2020. After a career of more than seventeen years in the Canadian judiciary, he returned to the private practice of law, which he had left in 2002. He uses his in-depth expertise and experience to guide and assist parties and their counsel in resolving disputes through arbitration at the national and international levels and acts as a strategic advisor in the insolvency, restructuring and litigation matters o...
Charles Lapointe is a partner in Langlois Lawyers’ Quebec City office. He practices primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, insolvency, banking law, intellectual property law and information technology law. In his insolvency practice Charles regularly represents financial institutions, bankruptcy trustees and receivers, while his intellectual-property clientele consists primarily of SMEs, providers of technological solutions and their customers, and telecommunications enterpris...
François Valin is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law. François practices law in Québec, Quebec Best Lawyers has recognized François Valin since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which François Valin is held by other lawyers.
Alex Dobrota is a partner at Woods LLP whose practice focuses on complex commercial cases, cross-border disputes, insolvency matters (domestic and international) and international arbitration. He has extensive experience pleading before all levels of Quebec courts and participating in commercial arbitrations with strategic and/or reputational risks for Canadian and foreign companies in the province of Quebec. He has successfully represented clients in the context of litigations arising from s...
