I am a partner and lawyer practicing business law with a focus on international trade at Dentons Canada. I am also Fellow of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM).My practice focuses on advising clients in international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances (including international franchise, distribution and technology transfer agreements). I have extensive experience with multi-jurisdictional transactions and am particularly well versed in the energy, natural resources, pharmaceutical, new technologies, e-commerce and services sectors. I also represent domestic and foreign companies before international courts of law (particularly in Europe) and arbitration panels on international trade issues related to investment and the import-export of products and services.I teach at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law and am regularly invited by various international associations and corporations as a speaker on free trade agreements, most particularly on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between EU and Canada.