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w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m M a r c h 2 0 1 4 41 8 7 total lawyers: 53 lawyers by office: Quebec City, 53 core practice areas: Corporate law and financing; com- mercial law; securities; civil and professional liabil- ity; insurance Key clients: Bridgestone Canada Inc.; Chartis; Desjar- dins Venture Capital; Groupe Le Massif; National Bank of Canada; Roynat Inc. Notable mandates: Acting for the CHU Sainte-Justine over unsecured debentures to finance the con- struction of the hospital centre's new parking facil- ity; acquisition by Congebec Logistics Inc. of the assets of Westco MultiTemp Distribution Centres Inc. (assets located in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta); filing on behalf of Nemaska Lithium Inc. of a base shelf prospectus for the offering and issue, over 25 months, of shares, securities, subscription receipts, and warrants with an aggre- gate offering price of up to $1 million; counsel in Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Lévesque v. R. Star alumni: Quebec Superior Court justices Bruno Bernard, Lise Bergeron, Jacques Blanchard, Jean- Francois Émond, and Alicia Soldevila; Quebec Court Justice Jean Asselin; former Canadian Bar Association president Paule Gauthier; former Que- bec premier Jean Lesage; former prime minister Louis St. Laurent. affiliations: Risk Management Counsel of Canada the firm: Stein Monast is the successor of Stein Monast Pratte & Marseille, a Quebec City firm that was founded in 1957. It partnered with Mon- treal's Desjardins Ducharme from 1992 to 2007, and is now operating from its Quebec City offices throughout the province of Quebec. STEIN MONAST LLP (8) STEINMONAST.CA total lawyers: 70 lawyers by office: Montreal, 70 core practice areas: Corporate and commercial; civil and commercial litigation; taxation and estate planning; insurance Key clients: Canadian and international entrepre- neurs and institutions in a wide range of indus- tries, including retail; manufacturing; insurance; financial; information technology; hydroelectric and wind energy; shipping and transportation Notable mandates: Representing a joint venture created by Campus Crest Communities Inc. and Beaumont Partners SA to acquire the Delta Centre-Ville Hotel in Montreal; representing Energizer Holdings Inc., in connection with the acquisition of feminine hygiene brands from McNeil PPC Inc. and Johnson & John- son Inc.; co-ordination of the defence of the Sino- Forest Corp. class actions in Ontario, Quebec, and the U.S., on behalf of Pöyry (Beijing) Management Consulting Ltd. and its related entities; represent- ing vendors in sale of their interest in the Magpie hydroelectric power project in northern Quebec. Star alumni: Yvon Jasmin, bâtonnier of Quebec Bar and Montreal Bar; Superior Court of Quebec Jus- tice Pierre Jasmin. affiliations: Terralex the firm: Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon is the result of the 2010 merger of two well-estab- lished firms, Lapointe Rosenstein and Marchand Melançon Forget. The firm has developed an international presence and practice in order to better serve its clients, and offers legal services in more than 12 languages. "They're fully bilingual, and very strong in com- mercial corporate and litigation," says a senior in- house lawyer at a large Quebec-based company. "All firms have bilingual services but to be fully bilingual — there aren't that many," the lawyer adds. LAPOINTE ROSENSTEIN MARCHAND MELANÇON LLP (7) WWW.LRMM.COM TOP QUEBEC REGIONAL FIRMS