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Anaïs Kadian is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate and Commercial Litigation. Anaïs, 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 Anaïs is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jocelyn Auger is a partner in the Business Law Group in our Montreal office. His field of experience extends to marketing, intellectual property protection, financing, privacy, data protection and cybersecurity. A member of the Barreau du Québec since 1997, Jocelyn has successfully combined his legal background with the business experience he acquired during his years as a senior manager. He has worked in the information technology and telecommunications industries, as well as in green...

Charles Daviault is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate and Commercial Litigation. Charles, who practices law in Montréal, Quebec, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Charles is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Fredric L. Carsley, a passionate Quebec real estate law practitioner. With over 45 years of experience in commercial real estate acquisition, development, financing and leasing, Fred Carsley has won the admiration and loyalty of many renowned players in the retail, office, industrial and multi-residential sectors. Identified by various national and international directories as a leading law practitioner in the fields of real estate development and property leasing, Fred Carsley is often refer...

Marc Ouellet is a partner in the Labour and Employment Law Group. His practice focuses mainly on individual employment contracts (from hiring to termination of contract), labour standards, unfair competition and human rights. He has advised and represented his clients in many disputes in matters of termination of employment, violation of non-competition and non-solicitation clauses or to obtain an injunction to end illegal picketing. Mr. Ouellet also helps his clients with collective or indiv...

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.

Vincent Filiatrault practises business law, with a focus on private mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial arrangements as well as infrastructure. Mr. Filiatrault also routinely advises clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial law matters.Vincent has developed a business law practice ranging from advising small and medium enterprises in the context of mergers and acquisitions, as well as in the context of shareholders' agreements and other complex commercial agreements, to ad...

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...

Alex Dobrota is a partner at Woods LLP whose practice focuses on complex commercial cases, cross-border disputes, insolvency matters (domestic and international) and international arbitration. He has extensive experience pleading before all levels of Quebec courts and participating in commercial arbitrations with strategic and/or reputational risks for Canadian and foreign companies in the province of Quebec. He has successfully represented clients in the context of litigations arising from s...

Due to chance and circumstances, Christine was one of the few fortunate attorneys to be immersed in Environmental law at the very beginning of her career in 1990. She has stayed on course ever since. After 20 years in prominent Montreal law firms, namely as a partner, she decided in 2009 to found her own firm, dedicated to her areas of practice, in order to offer her clients more proximity and flexibility while maintaining the same high standards of quality she was accustomed to offering in l...