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CORPORATE COMMERCIAL Christine A. Carron, QC, AdE Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Tel: (514) 847-4404 Fax: (514) 286-5474 Montréal christine.carron@nortonrosefulbright.com Suzanne Côté, AdE Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (514) 904-8180 Fax: (514) 904-8101 Montréal scote@osler.com Marc-André Coulombe Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3395 Fax: (514) 397-3495 Montréal macoulombe@stikeman.com Jean Fontaine Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (514) 397-3337 Fax: (514) 397-3487 Montréal jfontaine@stikeman.com Christine A. Carron is a senior partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Canada. She practices primarily in corporate and commercial litigation and in the areas of banking, privacy, product liability, consumer protection and e-commerce. She is Chair of Norton Rose Fulbright's privacy and access to information team in Canada. Carron also acts as defense counsel in major class actions. She has represented clients in parliamentary commissions on the adoption and amendment of Québec's privacy legislation for the private sector and participated in the consultation process for Quebec's legislation on new technologies. She was named Advocatus Emeritus by the Bar of Québec in 2007, is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and was one of 25 women lawyers to be awarded Lexpert®'s Zenith Award in 2009. Suzanne Côté is a partner and the head of the Montréal Litigation Group. She practices commercial litigation (breach of commercial contracts, representation of banks, bankruptcy and insolvency, shareholder disputes, Competition Act, various real estate matters, including commercial leasing, manufacturers' liability, class actions), as well as litigation in civil and administrative matters, such as judicial review before the federal courts and the investigation conducted by the Québec Court of Appeal regarding the removal from office of a judge of an inferior tribunal (Côté was then assisting the Court of Appeal). She pleads before all jurisdictions: Superior Court of Québec, Québec Court of Appeal and the federal courts. Named a BTI Client Service All-Star. Included in The 2013 Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014. Named "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by Le Monde juridique in 2008. Became fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2005. Called to the Québec Bar (1981). Partner and member of the litigation group. His practice covers all facets of litigation, from providing strategic advice to clients on litigious or potentially litigious issues to representing clients at trial and in appeal before the Quebec courts and the Federal Court of Canada. He has broad experience in commercial law, including contract law, corporate litigation and shareholder disputes, as well as substantial expertise in provisional or extraordinary proceedings such as injunctions and safeguard orders. Among other publications, he is included in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014 in the corporate and commercial litigation sector; Benchmark Litigation's Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys, 2013 edition; The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory (2013), as a leading practitioner in the area of corporate commercial litigation; named one of Lexpert®'s "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" in 2009; and the 2009 Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada as one of the 36 "Canadian Litigation Lawyers to Watch" in Canada. Partner and head of the Montréal Litigation and Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Groups. Member of the Montréal office's Management Committee, he is actively involved in the management and the strategic orientations of the Montréal office. Included in the following publications: The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014; IFLR1000's The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2013; The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory (2013) as a leading practitioner in insolvency & financial restructuring and litigation corporate commercial; Who's Who Legal 100 2012 and Who's Who Legal: Canada 2012; The 2012 PLC Which Lawyer? and PLC's Restructuring and Insolvency Multi-Jurisdictional Guide 2012/2013. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in Lexpert®''s Special Edition on Insolvency and Restructuring, November 2012 and as a "most highly regarded individual" by The Who's Who Legal Most Highly Regarded Firms: Insolvency & Restructuring 2011. Member of the Québec Bar, the Canadian Bar Association, the Insolvency Institute of Canada and the American Bar Association (litigation and insolvency). LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 89