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Laurence Ste-Marie, a partner at the firm, brings over ten years of experience resolution dispute in civil and commercial matters. Building on a diversified background, Laurence has consistently shown a facility to adapt her legal services to complex situations and provide tailored strategies and solution. She appears before the Quebec and federal courts, including in class actions, as well as in international arbitration. https://woods.qc.ca/en/team/laurence-ste-marie

Richard is a natural storyteller and his many stories have elicited much laughter from both clients and colleagues. He is a mighty and strategic litigator who leaves nothing to chance. Richard joined Monette Barakett in 1980. He is a long-standing partner and was a member of the executive committee for over 25 years. He served as managing partner from 2012 to 2017.Richard specializes in labour and employment law in the public, parapublic and private sectors. For more than thirty years, he has...

Vincent Grenier-Fontaine focuses his practice on insurance law and professional liability, particularly in conflict cases involving architects, lawyers, contractors working in the construction industry, engineers, professional technologists and pharmacists. He has experience working as a personal property and casualty insurance agent for an insurer and is a Certified Human Resources Advisor (CHRA). He has acted as a prosecutor for a public inquiry commission and regularly pleads before civil ...

Serving a wide range of business clients, Matthew Bilmes is an authority on tax and estate planning matters. Matthew Bilmes proudly assists business owners plan for tax efficiency throughout their company’s life cycle. He works with commercial clients and owner-operators across generations to effectively minimize tax while helping to propel growth for a future sale or family succession. He is also involved in numerous cross-border tax planning files, assisting clients with interests in ...

Katia Sebastiani is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Tax Law. Katia, who practices law in Montréal, Quebec, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Katia is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Yanick Vlasak is a partner and a member of Lavery’s Business law group and its specialized Restructuring, insolvency, and banking law group. He is also one of the two partners responsible for business development in the firm’s litigation sector. Mr. Vlasak’s practice is focused on commercial litigation, financing, banking law, insolvency, and financial restructuring. He also has expertise in construction law, shareholder disputes and arrangements, and asset protection measur...

Hélène has over 25 years of market-leading experience in advising many of Canada’s major institutions on managing complex legal and business risks, in respect of cybersecurity, information technology, privacy, and artificial intelligence. Her practice includes breach and incident response, regulatory compliance, and global data and privacy frameworks, as well as the negotiation of complex cross-border technology arrangements and transactions. Hélène excels at...

A fine strategist, Bertrand Giroux is known for his technical efficiency and his tremendous talent as a jurist. With a career spanning more than thirty years, he specialises in insolvency and commercial litigation, and is recognized by his peers for his intelligence, diplomacy and dexterity when tackling complicated matters or in high pressure situations. He advises companies on major operational restructurings. Bertrand recently successfully completed the restructuring of Groupe Hexagone. He...

Joëlle Simard is a member of the Corporate/Commercial group at the Montréal office. Focusing on corporate financing as well as mergers and acquisitions, she advises both public and private corporations in various sectors. Joëlle Simard joined the Fasken team as a student in the summer of 2012. Since that time, Joëlle has acted for Canadian public issuers during securities distributions and asset and share purchase-sale transactions, both in Canada and internationally. Sh...

Alain Y. Dussault is a partner, lawyer and trade-mark agent in Lavery’s intellectual property group. He practices mainly in intellectual property litigation and has an extensive experience in patents, trade-marks, copyrights and industrial designs litigations. He acted in several high-profile intellectual property litigations including multijurisdictional litigation for clients in various industries, such as: pharmaceutical, food, electronics, forest and entertainment. He has represente...