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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 39 6 total lawyers: 70 lawyers by office: Montreal, 70 core practice areas: Real estate; litigation; business; construction; taxation Key clients: AGF Group; BlueBridge Wealth Management; BTB Real Estate Investment Trust; Groupe Canam; Loblaws/ Provigo Distribution Inc.; RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Notable mandates: Represented RioCan, SmartCentres, BTB Investment Trust, Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust (CREIT), OP Trust, Capital BLF, and several corporations of the retail industry in real estate transactions; participated in the transfer of Quebec assets owned by Loblaws and Provigo to REIT Choice Properties; conversion of a publicly traded company into a real estate investment trust; multi-million share purchase and investment by Investment Québec and Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec in a major Québec steel company; multi-million acquisition of a Brit- ish Colombia road construction company by the Canadian subsidiary of a European construction company; co-counsel for plaintiffs in a class action trial in the Province of Québec against the principal Canadian tobacco companies. Star alumni: Quebec Court justices Normand Amyot, Daniel Bourgeois, and Gilles Lareau; Quebec Superior Court jus- tices Christian Tremblay, Yves Poirier, Carol Cohen, Chris- tiane Alary, and Martin Castonguay. affiliations: Interlaw, Lexwork the firm: De Grandpré Chait arose from the 1999 merger of two law firms, De Grandpré Godin and Chait Amyot. In 1928, Samuel Chait started practising in real estate law. Following the consolidation of five Montreal-based firms, De Grandpré Godin was founded in 1966 by Pierre De Grandpré to create the largest French-speaking law firm in Canada. Today, the firm carries out high-profile litigation and sees itself as the only true one-stop real estate outfit in the province. DE GRANDPRÉ CHAIT LLP (6) DEGRANDPRECHAIT.COM TOP QUEBEC REGIONAL FIRMS 170 17 1 GREATER MONTREAL GREATER QUEBEC CITY SAGUENAY/LAC-SAINT-JEAN EASTERN TOWNSHIPS CENTRAL QUEBEC LOWER ST. LAWRENCE ABITIBI-TÉMISCAMINGUE NORTH SHORE CHAUDIÈRE-APPALACHES ntitled-2 1 14-02-07 12:53 PM