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McCarthy Tétrault Offices
Suite MZ400
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Montréal QC
H3B 0A2
Canada
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Michel Gagné
Work Department
Litigation: Products Liability
Position
Partner based in Montréal, Michel’s practice focuses on commercial and civil litigation, and more specifically on complex technical litigation.
Michel specializes in defending class actions as well as in environmental litigation. More specifically, he defends manufacturers’ liability class actions related to pharmaceutical and consumer products, as well as medical devices. He has extensive lead counsel experience in personal injury cases and in cases involving toxicology and scientific issues. He regularly pleads before the civil courts. His experience includes numerous proceedings for damages, injunctive relief and judicial review. Michel also acts as lead appellate attorney. He has experience in statutory penal law and has pleaded before numerous administrative tribunals and arbitration boards.
Career
Quebec Bar, 1989. Canadian Product Liability Attorney of the Year in 2020 by LMG Life Sciences.
Memberships
Past chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association’s Québec Branch and a member of the Defense Research Institute.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Environment
- Infrastructure projects
- International trade
- Transport > Other transport
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Real estate
- Tax
- Technology
- Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Business immigration
- Cannabis
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Indigenous law
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Pensions
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Construction
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Public procurement