François Grondin

Marie-Claude Marcil is a partner in the Tax group of the Montréal office. With over 15 years of experience in tax litigation and dispute resolution, clients turn to her extensive experience in cases involving specific and general anti-avoidance rules, transfer pricing, acquisitions of control, deductibility of business expenses, employer payroll taxes, taxation of financial institutions, imposition of penalties, and scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED). She also...

François Ouimet is a senior counsel in the Corporate Group. He has been practising law for more than 40 years and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the fields of corporate law, financing law and real estate.

David Turgeon is the leader of the Global Intellectual Property group, a lawyer and a patent agent. He represents clients before different courts, protects their inventions through patents and provides strategic advice. David represents clients operating in a variety of industries, more particularly the life sciences (namely biologics), biomedical devices and manufacturing sectors. David specializes in high-stakes patent litigation involving clients’ flagship products. As lead counsel o...

Maxime Jacquin is a partner in the Corporate Group. His practice is mainly focused on corporate financings, mergers and acquisitions and infrastructure and energy projects. He regularly acts for institutional lenders, private equity funds, project sponsors and public and private companies in a variety of transactions, including acquisition financings, project financings, public-private partnerships, public debt offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He has also acquired extensive experience ...

Upon graduating from the National Program of the University of Ottawa (LL.L./LL.B.) in 2000 – as the recipient of the John Aylen Q.C. Prize for highest academic standing - Michael began his legal career working in the litigation department of a large national firm, Fasken Martineau. In fact, Michael initially worked for the firm as a student in the Montreal office and subsequently, as a lawyer in the Toronto office. In 2002, Michael returned to academia by undertaking his LL.M. studies ...

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...

Marc Rochefort practises in the field of business law with a special emphasis on securities, corporate finance, other corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, as well as corporate reorganizations.

Aniko Pelland is a partner in the Corporate Group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. Aniko's experience includes advising Canadian and foreign clients in acquisitions, business combinations, reorganizations, general commercial negotiations, public and private offerings of equity and debt as well as governance matters. He has worked across a wide range of industries, acting for public and private com...

Patricia Fourcand, Ad.E., practices family law at the Montreal office of Fourcand, Tremblay, Kissel, Plante . She has a recognized expertise in family litigation with an international law component. She received the designation of Emeritus Lawyer from the Quebec Bar in 2021. Patricia has worked on complex cases, such as child abductions, the validity of foreign or religious marriages, as well as the multijurisdictional division of assets. Her representations as regards the rights of fathers w...

Mtre Lyne Robichaud has an unique experience in entertainment law, including music, shows, movies and television, advertising and new media. She advises numerous national and foreign companies, both in transactional law and in intellectual property litigation. Mtre Lyne Robichaud also specializes in labour law as it pertains to provincial and federal laws on the status of the artist. She represents several producers’ organizations, which has led her to plead before specialized courts, a...