The Quebec disputes group at Torys specializes in representing clients involved in commercial contractual disputes, shareholder disputes and insurance claim disputes. Sylvie Rodrigue leads the practice from Montreal and focuses on class action, product liability mandates and commercial disputes, drawing on litigation experience in Quebec and other provinces. Additional names to note include Christopher Richter, who manages corporate and commercial litigation; Julie Himo, who handles matters involving commercial fraud, contractual and shareholder disputes and bankruptcy and insolvency and securities litigation); and Matthew Angelus, who majors on civil, commercial and class action litigation, with a particular focus on insurance, consumer, real estate, insolvency and transportation matters. Class action defence specialist Anne Merminod joined the firm in July 2024 from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

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  • ‘The team has depth of experience in class action matters.’

Key clients

  • OHL Construction Canada
  • Hydro-Québec

Work highlights

  • Represented OHL Construction Canada in a dispute between parties concerning a construction project in Montréal and the release of securities.
  • Represented Hydro-Quebec in a damages claim against a pilot who made an aerial attack on Hydro-Quebec’s transportation lines, causing close to $30m in damages, plunging 180,000 people into darkness and almost putting the province in a total blackout situation in December 2014.

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Practice head

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Sylvie Rodrigue

Other key lawyers

Christopher Richter, Julie Himo, Matthew Angelus