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Julie Gauvreau is a partner, lawyer, patent agent and trade-mark agent in Lavery’s intellectual property group. She holds a degree in microbiology from Université de Montréal and began her practice in 1998. She is a lawyer, a registered patent agent in Canada and in the United States, and a trade-mark agent. Julie Gauvreau has developed a successful patent practice with a full range of clients in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields. Her specialty resides in helping...

Pascale Gouin works in civil and commercial litigation, particularly in areas involving civil liability, relations between shareholders and between franchisors and franchisees, real estate law, labour relations and dispute arbitration. She pleads before the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court, the Court of Appeal and the administrative courts. She also applies her expertise in preventive ways, by drafting her clients’ employment contracts and commercial leases. Pascale also specializes ...

Benoit Brouillette is a partner at the firm and is Leader of our Labour and Employment Law group. He represents a clientele made up of private, public and parapublic organizations and advises them on their strategic management of labour relations. Benoit regularly serves as a management spokesperson during collective agreement negotiations in various economic sectors of all regions of Quebec. He also represents employers in administrative and judicial proceedings. He has extensive experience ...

Mtre Christian Joly is a founding partner of LJT Avocats, office manager and head of the business law department. He has acquired diversified expertise in a range of fields: company acquisitions and mergers, commercial contracts, agreements between shareholders, conflicts between shareholders, profit-sharing and equity investments in shares by management employees, financing and franchising. Mtre Christian Joly also has extensive expertise in real estate development, real estate financing and...

Jean-François Gagnon is the Chief Executive Officer of Langlois Lawyers. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, corporate governance, strategy, crisis management, ethics and deontology. He has wide-ranging experience in matters involving directors’ and officers’ liability, the management of not-for-profit organizations, construction law and insurance law. Jean-François...

Étienne Dubreuil’s expertise applies to structuring and negotiating complex transactions, whether in international partnerships or partnerships between public sector and private sector. He specializes in matters dealing with the marketing of intellectual assets and the outsourcing of services.

Ms. Lynne Kassie is a Partner and Head of our Family Law Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of matrimonial and family law, as well as in related fields of civil law, including succession and protective supervision. Ms. Kassie focuses her practice on complex litigation, and on cases involving high-net-worth issues, division of property and other financial issues related to business interests and trusts. Ms. Kassie also advises parties prior to their marriage or cohabitation and has ext...

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...

Luc Lissoir is a partner based in the Montréal office of Gowling WLG. He practises in corporate and commercial law, with a particular emphasis on Infrastructure Projects (P3s and alternative mode) procurements, project financing and development, private equity, M&A transactions and general corporate counselling. Over the years, Luc has acted for corporate and governmental issuers and investment dealer firms with respect to public and private offerings of equity, debt and synthetic ...

Sébastien Richemont is a seasoned litigator within the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in Montreal. His main areas of practice are class actions, shareholders disputes, arbitration, manufacturers and professional liability, contractual litigations and securities matters. With 25 years of trial and dispute resolution experience, Sébastien has leading-edge knowledge that allows him to understand the legal issues that clients may face while having practical know-how to supp...