Practice Expertise

  • Aviation Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Aviation
  • Aviation and Aerospace

Areas of Practice

  • Aviation
  • Aviation and Aerospace
  • Aviation Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Restructuring, Insolvency and Banking Law
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Profile

Partner

Jean Legault is a partner in the Litigation group in the commercial litigation, banking, and insolvency sector. With more than 23 years? experience in commercial litigation, he specializes in banking law and insolvency. He primarily advises financial institutions, institutional investors as well as trustees in bankruptcy in restructuring and insolvency cases. 

In these cases, Mr. Legault develops strategies, participates in the restructuring of firms facing financial difficulties, and represents clients before the courts to protect their interests and inform them of their rights and remedies. He has extensive experience in both major cases and those requiring more targeted action.

Mr. Legault also delivers training and development workshops for clients and gives lectures on bankruptcy and insolvency law and securities law.

As a board member from 2012 to 2014 then from 2017 to 2022, Mr. Legault was also involved in the internal organization of the firm. From 2010 to 2012, he co-coordinated the commercial litigation, banking, and insolvency sector, which counts more than 25 lawyers.

Publications and talks
  • LEGAULT, Jean, and WARIN, Jonathan, La proposition concordataire ? chapter 12: Faillite, Insolvabilité et Restructuration ? Édition à feuilles mobiles, JurisClasseur Québec ? Business law collection, Lexis Nexis - 2010 ? annual updates
  • Syndicats, salariés, retraités, fonds de pension? comment gérer les dossiers d?insolvabilité et de restructuration les impliquant, The Canadian Institute, Advanced conference on restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy, October 2013
  • Responsabilité des administrateurs, presentation to the Restructuring and insolvency group at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, November 2011
  • La gestion de risques et les contrats commerciaux - Impact des nouvelles dispositions de la Loi sur la faillite et l?insolvabilité et de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies sur les contrats commerciaux et identification des précautions à prendre, Lavery symposium for corporate legal advisors, September 2010
  • La gestion de risques ? Survivre à l?insolvabilité de vos partenaires d?affaires, qu?ils soient clients ou fournisseurs. Comment éviter que la détresse financière de votre partenaire d?affaires devienne la vôtre, Lavery symposium for corporate legal advisors, September 2009
  • Résister à l?insolvabilité de vos partenaires d?affaires - Comment éviter que la détresse financière de votre partenaire d?affaires devienne la vôtre, presentation to the Ordre des C.M.A., Montréal branch, June 2009
  • Risques liés à l'implication directe ou indirecte d'un banquier dans la gestion d'une entreprise en difficulté financière et de ceux liés à la participation active d?un banquier à ce qu?il est communément appelé ?flip?, presentation to the Laurentian Bank of Canada, April 2009
  • Les droits de la CSST dans un contexte de faillite et d?insolvabilité, Insight Information Co., 5th annual conference on insolvency and commercial restructuring,  April 2007
  • Bulletin jurisprudential, Association québécoise des professionnels de la réorganisation et de l?insolvabilité, November 2006
  • Les pouvoirs inhérents des tribunaux supérieurs de créer  en vertu de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies: incidence sur les créanciers garantis et les tiers, Canadian Institute, 3rd annual conference on securities, January 2006
  • La validité des sûretés créées par le tribunal sous le régime de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies, Insight Information Co., 5th annual conference on securities, September 2005
  • Les sûretés sur les créances dues par l?État, Insight Information Co., September 2002

Education

  • LL.L., University of Ottawa, 1991 

Areas of Practice

  • Aviation
  • Aviation and Aerospace
  • Aviation Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Restructuring, Insolvency and Banking Law

Professional Career

Professional Associations
Member of the firm’s Board of Directors since 2012
Canadian Bar Association – Quebec Division – Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring Section
Member of the Bar of Montreal’s Liaison Committee with the Superior Court’s Commercial Division

Seminars/ Presentation
Les sûretés sur les créances dues par l’État (Security interests on sums due by the State) – September 2002 – Insight Information Co.
La validité des sûretés créées par le tribunal sous le régime de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies (The value of the security interests created by courts under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act) – September 2005 – Insight Information Co. – 5th Annual Conference on Security Interests.
Les pouvoirs inhérents des tribunaux supérieurs de créer en vertu de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies : incidence sur les créanciers garantis et les tiers » (The inherent powers of higher courts to create under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act: The impact on secured creditors and third parties) - January 2006 – The Canadian Institute – 3rd Annual Conference on Security Interests.
Bulletin jurisprudentiel (Caselaw Summary Bulletin) – November 2006 – Québec Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals.
Les droits de la CSST dans un contexte de faillite et d’insolvabilité (The role of the CSST with respect to bankruptcy and insolvency issues) – April 2007 – Insight Information Co. – 5th Conference on Insolvency and Restructuring Law.
Risques liés à l'implication directe ou indirecte d'un banquier dans la gestion d'une entreprise en difficulté financière et de ceux liés à la participation active d’un banquier à ce qu’il est communément appelé « Flip » (Risks associated with the direct or indirect involvement of a banker with regards to the management of a failing business and the risks associated with the active participation of a banker in a Flip) - April 2009 – presentation to the Laurentian Bank of Canada.
Résister à l’insolvabilité de vos partenaires d’affaires - Comment éviter que la détresse financière de votre partenaire d’affaires devienne la vôtre (How to avoid being entangled in the same insolvency situation as your business partners) – June 2009 – presentation to the members of CMA Canada – Québec Section.
Lavery Seminar: Risk Management – Survivre à l’insolvabilité de vos partenaires d’affaires, qu’ils soient clients ou fournisseurs. Comment éviter que la détresse financière de votre partenaire d’affaires devienne la vôtre (How to avoid being entangled in the same insolvency situation as your business partners, whether they are clients or suppliers) - September 2009 – presentation to in-house counsel.
Lavery Seminar: Risk Management and Commercial Contracts - Impact des nouvelles dispositions de la Loi sur la faillite et l’insolvabilité et de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies sur les contrats commerciaux et identification des précautions à prendre (The impact of the new provisions of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act on commercial contracts and the precautions to take in that regard) – September 2010 - presentation to in-house counsel.
Responsabilité des administrateurs (Directors’ Liability) - November 2011 - presentation to the Recovery & Reorganization Group of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton.

Professional Activities and Experience
Accolades
  • Best Lawyer 2016
  • Best Lawyer 2017
  • Best Lawyer 2018
  • Best Lawyers 2019
  • Best Lawyers 2020
  • Best Lawyers 2021
  • Best Lawyers 2022
  • Lexpert 2022
  • Lexpert
  • Best Lawyers 2024


Articles

Additional Articles
  • TPS et TVQ en cas de faillite : importante victoire des créanciers garantis
  • The Partnership and the Independent Patrimony of its Partners: the Bankruptcy of Ferme C.G.R. Enr. S.E.N.C.
  • Limits of the deemed trust created under provincial tax legislation
  • Quarterly legal newsletter intended for accounting, management, and finance professionals, Number 21
  • Reimbursement clause for extrajudicial fees by a surety: valid or invalid?

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