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www.canadianlawyermag.com 23 the number of lawyers who were appointed judges in the various courts of the province of Quebec, including the Court of Appeal, in the recent years." Core practice areas and notable mandates: corporate law and financing; commercial law; securities; civil and professional liabil- ity; insurance; labour and employment law; real estate; class actions in defence including professional liability, intellectual property and public health; disciplinary law; bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring; commercial liti- gation; transportation; immigration Construction of Nemaska Lithium's elec- trochemical plant and spodumene mine in Quebec; $1.1-billion financing package closed in May 2019 CDPQ Infra completes structuring and procurement of REM project; Apr 12, 2018 Key clients: AIG, Bridgestone Canada Inc., BDC Capital, Chartis, Desjardins Venture Capital, Fonds des architectes, Groupe Le Massif, Manac, National Bank of Canada, Prelco, Roynat Inc., Université Laval, WSP Canada Star alumni: Quebec Superior Court Jus- tices Marie-Paule Gagnon, Lise Bergeron, Jean-Francois Émond, Jacques Blanchard and Alicia Soldevila; Quebec Court Justice Jean Asselin; Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Geneviève Cotnam 8 ROBINSON SHEPPARD SHAPIRO LLP RSSLEX.COM With 87 lawyers in Montreal and three in Sa- guenay, this business law firm, whose clients are at all stages of development from startups to major international companies, notably represented the Uniprix drugstore network and its shareholders for the sale of the second ployment and health and safety-related matters for Air Transat and Air Algeria; also represents Air Algeria in class action matters and other commercial affairs and, admin- istrative questions regarding the Canadian Transportation Agency Provides Desjardins with counsel and rep- resentation in various matters Represents major international artists in the music and entertainment industry. Assisted Emgold Mining Corporation in carrying out strategic mining acquisitions Assisted the Redberry Group shareholders through the acquisition of Redberry Group, one of the largest quick-service restaurant franchisees in North America, by City Capital Ventures, LLC, a private investment partner- ship headquartered in Chicago Provides counsel and representation on real estate matters to Fairstone Counsel and represent a large group of employers in labour business, including Ville de Longueuil and Olymel Star alumni: Gérald Le Dain, puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada 7 STEIN MONAST LLP STEINMONAST.CA A successor of Stein Monast Pratte & Mar- seille, a Quebec City firm that was founded in 1957, it partnered with Montreal's Desjardins Ducharme from 1992 to 2007 and now oper- ates from its Quebec City offices with 67 law- yers and five notaries. Largely a corporate law firm, Stein Monast recently added transporta- tion and immigration as new practice areas. "It has a single place of business in Que- bec City and yet provides services to institu- tional clients and a large client base located almost everywhere in Canada," wrote one respondent about the firm. "Stein Monast is a law firm known for the excellence of its lawyers and other professionals, as shown by Daniel Bourgeois, Gilles Lareau, Christian Tremblay and the late Vincent Piazza 6 DUNTON RAINVILLE LLP DUNTONRAINVILLE.COM As an appropriate way of marking its 65 th anniversary last year, Dunton Rainville leapt onto this year's Top 10 list without having been ranked in the 2018-2019 survey. "A few years ago, we decided to [take] an- other path to our development," says chair- man Jean-Jacques Rainville. The firm focused first on recruitment, "be- cause the lawyers' business is a people busi- ness, and the people who work in the firm [are] our product," he says. Second, says Rainville, five years ago, the firm started to gear its practice more to the corporate and transactional sector, including financing and M&A. Today, "I think all our team is on a growing path," including in civil, commercial, public law and labour law. All the groups are in expansion. Rainville says that "2019 was a beauti- ful year, and 2020 is going in the same way. There's more expansion of businesses, more recruitment." With 135 lawyers across seven Quebec offic- es, the firm has experienced "notable growth in regional coverage in the last year," achieved in part through its merger with Sherbrooke's BGO-Legal in November. Another respon- dent described the firm as a "team of profes- sional and committed experts, [providing] service excellence and also has ensured sus- tainability of the organization." Core practice areas and notable mandates: commercial, banking and real estate matters, labour, employment and immigration law, public, municipal, education and health law, civil, insurance, construction and family law Provides counsel and guidance on em-

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