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Banking and Finance; Corporate; Securities and Corporate Finance; Energy

Senior Business Advisor

Jean-Claude Bachand has over 30 years of executive and business experience with the financial services industry. He was active in the mutual fund industry in Europe (1970-1972) and, from 1972 to 1984, he worked in banking and executive positions with the Banque Nationale de Paris group, both in Canada and abroad. He then became Executive Vice-President and General Counsel at Montreal Trust.

Jean-Claude is a member of various boards, including I. G. Investment Management Ltd. (Winnipeg), and is the Chairman of the Executive Advisory Council of Investors Group-Québec. From 1994 to 2005, he was a member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. He is also the Honorary Consul General for the Principality of Monaco in Montréal.

Jean-Claude joined Dentons Canada LLP as counsel in 1995.

Read Jean-Claude's full biography here.

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Member, Board and various committees, I.G. Investment Management Ltd. (Winnipeg) Member, Board, Investors Group Trust Company (Winnipeg) Chairman, Québec Executive Advisory Council, Investors Group Financial Services Inc. Member, Board, London Life Trust Company, 1996-2008 Member, Board, Investors Syndicate Limited Member, Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, 1994-2005 Executive Vice-President and Chief legal officer, Montreal Trust, 1984-1994 Founding member and Board Secretary, Montrusco & Associates (a Montreal Trust affiliate), 1984-1995 Executive Vice-President and Chief legal officer, Banque Nationale de Paris (Canada), 1973-1984

University of Western Ontario, 1969, M.B.A Universite de Montreal, 1966, LL.L