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82 www.lexpert.ca Plante, Patrick Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (514) 954-2571 pplante@blg.com Partner in BLG's Commercial Litigation Group. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, and he acts in many lawsuits dealing with civil and contractual liability. With sound judgment and exceptional analytical sharpness, he handles complex class actions in the fields of environment, banking, product liability, consumer law, and privacy. He also deals with special procedures (injunction), transports law, banking litigation, constitutional law, administrative law, and disciplinary law. He participates in the preparation of cases and pleads before all judicial bodies in Quebec. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada, in Benchmark Canada – The Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys as a Future Star, and as Benchmark Litigation's 40 and Under Hotlist. Member of The Advocates' Society Quebec Advisory Committee. Education: BA (York University); MA (Université Laval); LLB (University of Ottawa). Admitted to Quebec bar in 2009. Polley, Mark Polley Faith LLP > (416) 365-1603 mpolley@polleyfaith.com Mark is a founding partner of Polley Faith. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He acts for corporations, other organizations, and individuals engaged in complex and high-stakes litigation, arbitrations, and appeals. He has experience dealing with a wide range of litigation including commercial, proxy battles, investigations, special committee investigations and corporate governance, professional liability, white collar crime, libel, insolvency, competition, administration and regulatory, class actions, securities, and public inquiries. Mark has received numerous recognitions over his career including being named Litigation Star by Benchmark Canada and being listed in Best Lawyers in Canada and Chambers Global Canada. Mark teaches as a guest instructor at the Osgoode Hall Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, and is a member of the Ontario Bar Association, the Criminal Lawyers' Association, the Advocates' Society, and the Toronto Lawyers' Association. He is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, the Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, and a member of the Trial Law Institute and Diversity Law Institute. He is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel. Pinsonnault, Guy McMillan LLP > (613) 691-6125 guy.pinsonnault@mcmillan.ca Guy Pinsonnault is a partner in the firm's competition group where he practises in Montreal and Ottawa. His practice includes the full range of competition, anti-corruption, white collar crime, and Canadian business regulation, litigation, and advisory work, with a particular focus on Canadian and international cartel and commercial crime matters. Prior to joining McMillan, he was general counsel, competition law section, Public Prosecution Service of Canada, 2004– 2012. His work as the senior prosecutor at the Competition Bureau focused mainly on the prosecution of criminal cartel matters, as well as bid-rigging and fraudulent misrepresentation, in many of the major contested competition prosecutions in that period. He also provided extensive advice in the development of the Competition Bureau policies and programs in the criminal field (e.g., the Immunity and Leniency Programs) and advised on Bureau policies and practices for search and seizure, immunity, and plea agreements. He prosecuted cases from the RCMP commercial crime division, the integrated proceeds of crime unit, and the Province of Quebec anti-corruption unit (UPAC). Plamondon, Frédéric Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 286-2011 frederic.plamondon@nortonrosefulbright.com Frédéric Plamondon has broad litigation experience with a strong focus on white-collar defence, securities litigation and class actions. He advises corporations, public issuers and market participants in a wide range of investigations, frauds and other financial crime matters, including foreign corruption. Plamondon is regularly called upon to take part in proceedings involving various regulators and public bodies, as well as in competition and securities class actions. An important component of his practice consists of acting as a trusted advisor in matters touching on anti-corruption, sanctions, corporate governance, compliance and prelitigation. He also represents clients in highly complex commercial litigations raising constitutional, public and administrative issues. Plamondon has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, Quebec Court of Appeal, Quebec Superior Court, Court of Quebec, courts in Ontario, as well as various regulatory and administrative tribunals. In addition to this very active practice, Plamondon plays a key role in the legal community, notably as founder of the Quebec division of the Young Advocates' Standing Committee, a division of The Advocates' Society. Pitre, Stéphane Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (514) 954-3147 spitre@blg.com Stéphane Pitre is Montréal's regional leader in BLG's Construction Group as well as the Insurance Tort Law Group. He is also a member of the Commercial Litigation Group and Class Actions Group. Pitre's practice is focused on construction, engineering, sureties, and product liability, particularly in the areas of insurance, civil liability, commercial litigation, and class actions. Pitre's expertise in the field of construction includes legal hypothecs, surety and bonds, calls for tenders and bids, and other aspects of claims by contractors. He is also experienced in issues relating to private international law. In that capacity, Pitre has pleaded cases related to the jurisdiction of Québec judicial authorities and before all courts, including the Supreme Court. He is recognized in Benchmark Canada as a Local Litigation Star: Quebec and a Litigation Star: Class Action, Commercial, Construction, Product Liability, and Recall. He was also selected by peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition (and since 2013) of The Best Lawyers in Canada. Called to the Quebec Bar in 1999. Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers