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Eric Simard is Co-leader of the national Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. He practices as a litigator in civil and commercial litigation. He acts primarily in complex litigation and defends clients during class actions. He also represents clients during injunction and safeguarding proceedings. Eric regularly appears in arbitration matters and before the Superior courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. In a world of globalization, a large number of foreign manufacturers and supp...

David Massé is a partner and Head of the Montréal office’s Securities and Public Mergers & Acquisitions Group. David has extensive experience focused primarily on corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring and corporate governance. He has been counsel to strategic purchasers, financial sponsors, private equity funds, pension funds and boards of directors in several complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including going ...

Warren Silversmith is a partner in the Corporate Group, and Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Montréal. Warren primarily focuses his practice on private equity and venture capital, project development and finance and mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions. In addition to Canadian corporate entities, Warren has acted for a number of U.S. private equity and U.S. venture capital firms on a wide range of acquisitions and investments for...

Paul Marcotte is a seasoned lawyer with over 40 years of experience in business law and has an impressive and diverse track record. Throughout his career, he has taken part in a variety of national and international transactions, in major contracts negotiation and review, and large bid management. Paul’s client base ranges from engineering, construction, transportation, industrial manufacturing to biotech. Paul worked mainly in private practice before joining Delegatus in 2011 and was a...

Jean-François Vadeboncoeur is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Asset-Based Lending Practice and Banking and Finance Law. Jean-François, who practices law in Montréal, Quebec, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jean-François is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jane Bogaty practices corporate and commercial law in the Banking and Finance group of Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon. Jane advises individual lenders, syndicates of lenders as well as corporate borrowers on a variety of financings. Jane also represents manufacturers and distributors of equipment and machinery providing floor and other types of financing for their clients in Quebec for whom she frequently drafts and negotiates loan, security and other ancillary agreements and do...

Jean-Daniel Lamy is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Administrative and Public Law, Expropriation Law and Municipal Law. Jean-Daniel, who practices law in Montréal, Quebec, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jean-Daniel is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

With over 30 years of experience, Francis is a seasoned commercial litigation lawyer, practicing in a wide range of areas: corporate litigation, particularly shareholder disputes, product liability, contract law, and disputes related to insurance, construction, and securities. He also has extensive knowledge in class actions concerning competition law, consumer contracts, and product liability. Francis has represented clients before all judicial levels, including the Federal Court and the Sup...

Marc-André Laroche is a partner-owner in the firm. Since the beginning of his career, Mr. Laroche’s practice has focused exclusively on labour and employment law issues. As such, he counsels and represents companies of all sizes in various economic sectors, both before administrative tribunals and courts of law. He is also an author, lecturer and legal instructor on several hot topics in labour and employment law.

Luc Lissoir is a partner in the firm's Montréal office, practising in securities and corporate and commercial law with particular emphasis on public and private securities offerings, project financing, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counselling. After having served as managing partner for Lafleur Brown from 1995 to 2000 and for Gowlings from 2000 to 2007 and following a change in governance, Luc was an active member of the six person Board of Trustees of...