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Myriam Brixi practises in civil and commercial litigation, primarily in the areas of class actions, product liability and insurance law. She has participated in complex class actions raising important legal issues, including a wide range of multi-jurisdictional class actions. The experience she has gained in these major cases has enabled her to develop a comprehensive knowledge of the procedural and strategic aspects of class actions in Canada. Me Brixi is ranked as a Future Star by Benchmark...

Pierre-Olivier Charlebois is a leading lawyer in the areas of environmental, mining, energy, climate change and corporate social responsibility law. Recognized by his peers across Canada and internationally due to his multidisciplinary expertise, Pierre-Olivier is the go-to legal reference. Pierre-Olivier is the leader of the Corporate Social Responsibility group. He also heads the Environmental, Energy and Climate Change group for the Quebec region. Pierre-Olivier advises clients on complian...

Nathalie-Anne Béliveau is a seasoned and experienced litigator who focuses on civil and commercial litigation as well as competition law. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, injunctions, seizures and other urgent extraordinary remedies, including Anton Piller (civil search warrant), Norwich and Mareva injunctions and intellectual property disputes. Nathalie-Anne has leading-edge litigation expertise in breach of non-compete and non-solicitation clauses, unfair or ill...

François Côté practises management-side employment and labour law. In particular, he advises employers on grievance arbitration, labour standards, administrative law, occupational health and safety law, and labour relations in the construction industry. He regularly acts as spokesperson at the negotiation table. Mr. Côté regularly represents employers before the Commission des relations du travail (Quebec’s labour relations board) and grievance arbitrato...

Gourmet, wine, music and art lover, Jean-Guy is a true epicurean. Very sympathetic, endowed with great sensitivity and demonstrating an infectious dynamism, he forges close ties with his clients. He thus creates a bond that allows him to work as a team with them in order to find the solutions that best suit their situation. Before joining our law firm, Mr. Payette practiced law at a firm in Montérégie. He joined Monette Barakett in 2014 and he is a partner. He helped set up the ...

Stephen L. Drymer is head of Woods LLP’s International Arbitration group. Stephen practices exclusively in the area of domestic and international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. He acts as counsel, and serves as arbitrator and mediator, in domestic and in international commercial and investment treaty disputes. Educated and trained in both the common law and the civil law, Stephen has represented parties and served as mediator, party-appointed arbitrator or president of ...

A member of the Quebec Bar since 2017, Me Mélissa Potvin specializes in immigration and citizenship law. A member of the Quebec Immigration Lawyers Association and the Canadian Bar Association, Me Potvin works on all types of cases covering the entire immigration process in Canada: from temporary residency to permanent residency to citizenship, in addition to compliance audits of employers hiring temporary foreign workers. Prior to joining Cain Lamarre, Me Potvin acquired extensive exp...

Me Frédéric Bérard holds a Doctorate in Law (LL.D., Université de Montréal, Unanimous Mention of Excellence and Dean’s Honour List), a Master’s Degree in Political Science (M.A., McGill University), and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B., Université de Montréal, Dean’s Excellence List). He also pursued postdoctoral studies in Philosophy at Université Laval. After working at Stikeman Elliott and Woods, he founded, in 2025, Fr&eac...

Mathieu Renaud is part of Fasken’s Real Estate law practice group. He joined the firm in 2016, after working in the legal affairs department of one of the largest real estate companies in the world. Mr. Renaud participated in several major real estate transactions involving foreign private and public institutional investors. Mr. Renaud practices primarily transactional real estate law. As part of the Real Estate law practice group, he acts for owners, managers, lenders, private and publ...

Claudia Déry is the Canadian co-head of our construction and engineering team. She has advised and represented before the courts a number of clients in construction-related matters, including major public-private partnership projects. She has experience in drafting tender documents and construction law topics and conducts the annual review of construction case law for the Canadian Bar Association. She has been ranked in the Best Lawyers in Canada since 2006 in the area of construction ...