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Martin Lord is a Partner in our Estates, Wills and Trusts group. His practice focuses on tax law. He advises clients in business matters, particularly in terms of tax planning for the protection and cross-generation transmission of assets through domestic trusts or wills. He also facilitates charitable donations.

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...

Jean-Philippe Therriault is a member of the firm’s Environmental, Energy and Climate Change group. His practice focuses on environmental, construction and public procurement law. In environmental law, Jean-Philippe advises clients on compliance issues and helps them navigate the permit and approval process. He has extensive experience in commercial and real estate transactions involving environmental issues, including the management of risks associated with release of contaminants, cont...

Cristel Chabot-Lapointe is a partner in the firm’s Corporate/Commercial group. Her practice focuses on business law, primarily on private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. Cristel represents several private equity firms and institutional funds as well as their portfolio companies in transactions related to mergers and acquisitions, sales, equity investments and reorganizations, as well as day-to-day advisory. Cristel is actively involved in the community. She...

Matthieu enjoys adding his deadpan humour to any situation. In the throes of a complex case, and with the inherent seriousness of the law profession, this personality trait lends well to achieving the best solutions through the most agreeable means (or the least disagreeable, depending on where you sit!). Matthieu’s clients and colleagues appreciate his availability and his reliability. He is driven by teamwork and his greatest joy is achieving goals through fruitful collaboration.Matth...

Michel Legendre is an associate in the Tax Group. He specializes in pensions and employee benefits, supplemental plans, executive compensation and stock option plans. Michel’s assignments in field pension related matters include: Drafting plan documentation, pension trusts, master trusts and amendments thereto. Drafting opinions on contribution holidays, surplus entitlements, construction of plan documentation, division of credits on material breakdown, entitlement to benefits, etc. Rev...

Catherine Daigle practises intellectual property law with a focus on trademarks and advertising issues. She has developed a practice that addresses strategic issues related to trademark portfolio management on an international level for a range of clients in a variety of disciplines. Ms. Daigle assists clients across all the stages of the trademark life cycle, including clearance and availability opinions, developing filing strategies, trademark prosecution and administrative proceedings befo...

Ouassim Tadlaoui is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. He focuses his practice on banking litigation, restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and construction surety bonds. He represents chartered banks and other financial institutions and alternative lenders as creditors, as well as certain debtors, in bankruptcy or restructuring mandates. He also represents and advises surety companies as well as national and international companies in matters of insolvency, bankruptcy ...

Anthony Franceschini is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Class Action Litigation, Construction Law and Product Liability Law. Anthony, who practices law in Montréal, Quebec, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Anthony is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Guillaume Synnott is a partner within the Corporate/Commercial Law Group. His practice focuses on the areas of venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings for high-growth technology companies. Guillaume is known for his ability to provide creative solutions adapted to his clients’ strategic and business objectives. His clients range from start-up and emerging companies to well-established public companies. He also represents angel investo...