Fabrice Benoît

• Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited, in its dealings with the Autorité des marchés financiers (Québec’s Securities Regulator)
• Element AI in its acquisition by ServiceNow pursuant to a plan of arrangement.
• The Stars Group Inc. (formerly Amaya Inc.) and certain of its directors in connection with a securities class action
• The Stars Group Inc. (formerly  Amaya Inc.) in connection with an investigation of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers into allegation relating to trading of Amaya shares prior to the announcement of the US$4.9 billion acquisition of Oldford Group Ltd.; including PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker
• Alithya Group Inc. in its going public transaction by way of a business combination with Edgewater Technology, Inc. and completion of a $52.8 million concurrent private placement
• National Bank Financial, in an OSC/AMF regulatory investigation and proceedings regarding Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) transactions
• Goldman, Sachs & Co. before the TMX Disciplinary Committee
• The Toronto Stock Exchange in connection with AbitibiBowater Inc.‘s hostile takeover bid for the acquisition of Fibrek Inc.
• CANMARC Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with COMINAR Real Estate Investment Trust’s hostile takeover bid
• Manager in charge for the Autorité des marchés financiers in connection with the joint investigation conducted with the Ontario Securities Commission and IIROC on the Asset Back Commercial Paper (ABCP)
• Certain bondholders, in the corporate takeover involving the $51.7 billion privatization of BCE

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION AND INSOLVENCY

• Veolia Health Operating Services in the design-build defect claims against the constructors of the new Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
• Laurentian Bank of Canada in proceedings for the appointment of a receiver regarding the assets of Média5 & al.
• Wykanta Canada Ltd. in its claim for lost profits following a refusal to complete an acquisition.
• Fortin et al. – acted for six defendants in successfully opposing certification of a proposed class action based on allegations that defendants orchestrated a fraudulent scheme in order to obtain sums from the proposed class
• Colacem Canada Inc. in connection with an environmental class action relating to neighbourhood disturbances
• National Tire Distributors in its road security rating re-evaluation before the Commission des transports du Québec
• Intesa Bank Canada in relation with a pursuit by Les Soeurs du Bon Pasteur de Québec for an approximate amount of $60 million