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Pierre-Paul Persico is a partner in the tax group at our Montreal office. With extensive experience in tax law, he provides advice and representation in several key areas, including corporate reorganizations and estates, trust creation and estate planning, including post-mortem strategies. Pierre-Paul's prominent ability to give strategic tax advice has attracted his diverse client base, which includes businesses, professionals and high-net-worth individuals. With his in-depth understanding o...

Peter Riddell's practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and other complex commercial arrangements, carve-out transactions, and corporate and commercial law. He represents clients in various industries, including aerospace, agriculture, technology, pharma, renewable energy and entertainment.Peter has developed a relatively broad corporate practice ranging from advising large multinational corporations in the context of cross-border M&A, to smaller emerging scale-ups ...

Richard J. Clare provides high-level advice and has an unparalleled reputation as a strategic advisor in the real estate community. With a practice in real estate and commercial law, he assists clients in real estate development, joint venture structures, portfolio dispositions and acquisitions and financing. Richard acts for institutional lenders in structuring construction or permanent financing. He also advises purchasers, vendors, developers and real estate agents on the sale, purchase, d...

Practice focuses on strategic alliances, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions of private corporations and investment funds. In the fields of technology and computer law, expertise includes drafting computer software development agreements, licensing agreements, distribution agreements, computer and telecommunication system outsourcing agreements and electronic commerce agreements. Major files have included outsourcing computer and telecommunication systems, joint ventures, high density...

Mr. Barry H. Shapiro is a partner in our Business Law and Estates, Wills and Trusts groups. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, business and corporate law, real estate, and wills and estates. He is frequently asked to advise clients on various matters relating to their businesses or personal estate planning.

Stephan H. Trihey’s practice is focused on commercial and civil litigation, insurance and construction law, commercial real estate, shareholder remedies and estate litigation. He brings over 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer, as counsel for domestic and international corporations, as well as insurers, and as an public sector advocate, having represented universities and Crown corporations. He routinely advises clients on complex and contentious issues, with the goal of either fin...

Awatif Lakhdar has been a member of the Family Law, personal law, and estate law group since May 2014. Called to the Barreau du Québec in 2002, she has been in private practice for more than a decade. Her primary area of practice is private international law, and she frequently pleads before all levels of the Quebec courts, including the Superior Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court. She is also a certified mediator. Ms. Lakhdar has participated in seminars and conferences...

Dominique Noël is a litigation lawyer based in Montreal, practising in all areas of civil and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on civil and professional liability, construction law and insurance law. He also takes interest in administrative law. Dominique has acted and continues to act for major corporations, insurance companies and Quebec municipalities in complex litigation before the Quebec courts. Before joining our Montréal office, Dominique clerked at the Court...

Simon Bisson is a member of the Corporate/Commercial law group. He advises clients on transactions relating to the acquisition and sale of businesses and the operation and financing of corporations and investment funds. A member of the Barreau du Québec since 2014, Simon focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital and private equity. Simon holds a licence en droit (LLL) and a Juris Doctor from the University of Ottawa. Prior to his legal studies, he obtained a...

Yves Robillard is a litigator with more than 30 years of experience in sophisticated commercial litigation. He represents clients in a wide range of industry sectors, from banks and insurers to major manufacturers in commercial and contractual disputes as well as ‘high stakes’ securities litigation matters. His approach is to focus on devising and implementing strategies to mitigate risk, reduce nuisance litigation, and ensure that his clients’ interests are protected in the...