Best Quebec Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Lawyers

Antonella Penta is a partner within the Corporate/Commercial law group. Antonella is effective in leading negotiations and realizing private company mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions. Antonella regularly manages cross-border and international transactions, corporate reorganizations and private placement financings. She has assisted companies in various industries from initial stages of incorporation to divestiture, including structuring, drafting of sha...

Jean‑Sébastien Dugas is a business lawyer. His practice covers all aspects of mergers, acquisitions and sales of private businesses, private financings (including equity, bank debt and subordinated loans), and commercial contracts. He advises entrepreneurs, executives, companies and private equity funds on complex strategic transactions across Canada, primarily in Québec and Ontario. Jean‑Sébastien provides guidance at all stages of commercial and corporate transactions, ...

Constantinos Ragas is a senior partner at Fasken and a national co-lead of the firm’s Emerging Technology Group, a premier legal practice serving Canada’s innovation economy. Based in Montréal, he is widely recognized as one of the top venture capital and technology M&A lawyers in the country, with a practice that blends legal precision, strategic thinking, and deep market insight. For nearly two decades, Constantinos has played a leading role in shaping Québec&r...

A leader in the business community of Quebec, Carl Tremblay served as the managing partner of Fasken's Quebec City office for seven years. He is recognized for his practice in corporate and commercial law, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and financing. Carl’s experience and professional skill ensure that clients receive the best possible services. Carl regularly takes part in mergers and acquisitions transactions, private placements and strategic agreements. He also ...

Cristel Chabot-Lapointe is a partner in the firm’s Corporate/Commercial group. Her practice focuses on business law, primarily on private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. Cristel represents several private equity firms and institutional funds as well as their portfolio companies in transactions related to mergers and acquisitions, sales, equity investments and reorganizations, as well as day-to-day advisory. Cristel is actively involved in the community. She...

Rafal Wrzesien is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Rafal practices law in Montréal, Quebec Best Lawyers has recognized Rafal Wrzesien 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 Rafal Wrzesien is held by other lawyers.

Arnold Cohen’s practice includes financing and insolvency and restructuring. His financing practice focuses on asset-based lending (both Canadian and cross-border transactions), in which he represents leading US and Canadian asset-based lenders and factors. Mr. Cohen also regularly represents lenders and corporate borrowers in the financing of real estate, receivables and equipment, as well as acquisition, project, structured and traditional bank financings, all on both a syndicated and...

Jean Michel Lapierre is a business lawyer recognized for his leading practice in mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and securities law. Jean Michel has been involved in several major acquisition, sale, merger or going-private transactions of publicly-traded companies, including friendly and hostile take-over bids and complex statutory arrangements. He has also been involved in a large number of private M&A transactions. He has acted on behalf of issuers, securities dealers and in...

My practice is centered on transactional and corporate matters, with an emphasis on the technology sector. I developed my expertise with two preeminent national law firms as well as in-house roles with innovative startups and, more recently, with two rapidly expanding Montreal law firms. Before embarking on my legal career, I worked in the banking industry across Canada, the United States and France, acquiring substantial business experience which continues to help my business-minded, practic...

Peter Villani leads complex transactions with major players in the retail, ecommerce, fibre optics testing, and telecommunications sectors. With dealings in the US, South Africa, South America, Europe and Asia, Peter possesses exceptional international insight and perspective. Peter is active in the community, having been president of the Jewish Vocational Service and JVS Jewish Workshop Inc., and acting as current legal counsel to the Canadian Italian Business & Professionals Association...

Caitlin is a partner and co-leads Fasken’s national Private Equity Group. Her practice focuses on private equity investments (LBOs and minority positions), large cross-border M&A, IPOs and privatizations. Caitlin works closely with a variety of private equity funds and their portfolio companies in M&A, governance matters and day to day servicing. She also regularly acts on behalf of public companies and underwriters in going public transactions, equity offerings and general secu...

Svetlana Samochkine is a partner in Fasken’s Banking and Finance group. She represents both financial institutions and borrowers in setting up syndicated loans, project financings and other domestic and international financing operations. Her practice is also focused on the financings of private equity investments. Svetlana is a member of the Quebec Bar and the Law Society of Ontario. She sits on the board of directors of the Association des Femmes en Finances du Québec (AFFQ) an...

Geneviève Burdon is a lawyer in Fasken’s Knowledge and Practice Innovation team and works with the Emerging Technology group across the Firm. As a Knowledge and Practice Innovation lawyer for the Emerging Technology group, Geneviève focuses her practice on tracking new and emerging legal developments as well as developing knowledge management initiatives and legal technology innovations to ensure the efficient and consistent delivery of high-quality legal services. Genevi&...

Neil Kravitz is Fasken’s Firm Managing Partner-Elect, with his mandate set to begin on January 1, 2027. In this role, he will lead a team of more than 900 lawyers and over 2,000 personnel across the Firm. Neil currently serves as Co-Leader of our Montréal office Corporate Group and the Firm’s Cross-Border and International Practice. He is widely regarded as a highly skilled, deal‑oriented M&A and securities lawyer and as a strategic thinker with board-level judgment and...

Michel Boislard has extensive experience in commercial law, primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, investment funds and securities. He also advises clients from the high technology and biotechnology sectors. Numerous public and private corporations trust Michel to represent them during complex domestic and international cross-border transactions. Michel familiarized himself with the challenges involved in cross-border transactions while working as resident pa...

Marc Tremblay is a professional engineer and a lawyer. He practices business law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and financing of private corporations, particularly in the technology and the telecommunication sectors. While handling transactions within the information technology and manufacturing sectors, he negotiates various agreements for the development, licensing, integration,and transfer of technology, the outsourcing of computer services and business processes and the setting ...