Antoine Brylowski

• Financial Institutions and Financial Services Law
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Internal and Regulatory Investigations, Compliance and White Collar Defence
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• Class Actions
• Civil and Commercial Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• Extraordinary Remedies
• Appellate Advocacy
• Professional Liability

• Financial Institutions and Services
• Insurance
• Security

• Represented the controller of a reporting issuer in connection with an internal investigation by the board of directors into the overseas operations of the issuer.
• Represented a Canadian financial institution in connection with a multijurisdictional class action alleging collusion and anti-competitive practices in the credit card industry.
• Represented a technology officer of a reporting issuer in the mining industry in connection with an investigation by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) into suspected tipping and insider trading.
• Represented officers and corporations operating in the area of crypto-assets in connection with investigations by the AMF (Autorité des marchés financiers) and subsequent proceedings.
• Represented various financial institutions in connection with extraordinary remedies aimed at obtaining Mareva injunctions, Norwich orders or seizures before judgment and damages.
• Represented corporations in order to obtain Anton Piller orders and damages following a theft of confidential information by a former employee.
• Represented various financial institutions in connection with extraordinary remedies aimed at obtaining Mareva injunctions, Norwich orders or seizures before judgment and damages.
• Represented a large Canadian financial institution in a regulatory investigation into the distribution of structured products in the retail market.
• Represented a large Canadian financial institution in a major lawsuit over the fraudulent use of bank accounts.
• Represented a large Canadian financial institution in a major lawsuit over illegal transfers of funds.
• Represented a large Canadian financial institution in a lawsuit over the management of commercial accounts.
• Represented a large Canadian financial institution in a case involving fraudulent transfers.
• Represented a large Canadian financial institution in a case involving bank lending liability.
• Represented a private corporation in connection with a shareholder dispute.
• Represented two public corporations in a lawsuit over the purchase of shares of a private corporation.
• Represented brokers before the Disciplinary Committee of the Chambre de la sécurité financière (CSF).

• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory – Litigation – Corporate Commercial, 2024-2025
• Benchmark Litigation Canada – Future Star, 2024
• Best Lawyers in Canada – Corporate and Commercial Litigation, 2025

• CPE Petits Lapins, Member of the Board of Directors, since 2021

• Co-author: “Supreme Court broadens cyber-privacy to include IP addresses: 5 business takeaways from Bykovets”, March 20, 2024.
• Co-author: “Delays in administrative proceedings: the Supreme Court holds the line”, July 20, 2022.
• Co-author: “The analytical framework specific to seizure before judgment: distinction with the debate on the merits of the case”, July 13, 2022.
• Co-author: “Disclosure of a witness’s contact information to the opposing party: a reminder of the applicable principles”, February 14, 2022.
• Co-author: “Lessons in evidence, procedure and natural justice from the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal”, August 19, 2021.
• Co-author: “Investigations under the Business Corporations Act and their findings: No backtracking, according to the Superior Court”, September 21, 2020.
• Co-author: “COVID-19 and CBCA companies: Supreme Court of British Columbia first Canadian court to rule on a petition seeking an extension of the delay to hold the annual general meeting”, April 23, 2020.
• Co-author: “To launch, or not to launch, an internal investigation during the COVID-19 crisis: that might be a question”, April 9, 2020.
• Co-author: “IIROC issues Notice 20-0063 regarding COVID-19 related exemptions from IIROC Rules”, April 8, 2020.
• Co-author: “The Quebec Court of Appeal recognizes the right to publish a Mareva injunction”, April 2, 2020.
• Co-author: “Crisis management and the heightened risk of insider trading and tipping”, March 31, 2020.
• Co-author: “The Court of Appeal Limits the Disclosure of Documents Prior to the Authorization of a Class Action Instituted Under the Securities Act”, February 8, 2018.
• Co-author: “Disclosure of Documents in Class Actions at the Pre-Authorization Stage Under the QSA”, February 9, 2017.
• Co-author: “The Consumer Protection Act Fuels Automobile Misrepresentation Class Action in Quebec: Misfire or Upcoming Trend?”, Class Action Journal, Vol. X, No. 4, Toronto, Federated Press, 2016, p. 667.

• Co-speaker: L’utilisation de moyens extraordinaires dans le cadre de fraude [Using extraordinary remedies in fraud cases], workshop for a client, Montréal, March 5, 2025.
• Co-speaker: La position des tribunaux québécois à l’égard des cryptoactifs [The Québec courts’ position on cryptoassets], as part of the symposium La transformation de la finance par les cryptoactifs : analyse juridique comparée, organized by the Chaire de recherche sur les contrats intelligents et la chaîne de blocs – Chambre des notaires du Québec and the Laboratoire international associé : contrats, sûretés et insolvabilité des consommateurs et des entreprises, Université Laval, Québec, November 29, 2024.
• Co-speaker: Innovations financières : analyse et perspectives émergentes [Financial innovations: Analysis and emerging trends], Les frontières du droit des valeurs mobilières, organized by the Observatoire du droit québécois des valeurs mobilières, Montréal, May 30, 2024.
• Co-speaker: L’application de la Loi sur les valeurs mobilières aux phénomènes de cryptoactifs : regard sur la jurisprudence du Tribunal administratif des marchés financiers [The enforcement of the Securities Act with respect to cryptoassets: A look at the case law of the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal], Colloque sur les développements récents en litiges de valeurs mobilières, Barreau du Québec, Montréal, October 19, 2023.
• Co-speaker: Enquête interne et fraude : la protection des privilèges dans le cadre de recours extraordinaires [Internal investigation and fraud: the protection of privileges in the context of extraordinary remedies], Les développements récents en enquêtes internes et réglementaires, Barreau du Québec, November 18, 2021.
• Co-speaker: Le privilège : outil essentiel à maîtriser dans le cadre d’une enquête interne [The Privilege : an essential tool in the context of an internal investigation], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, March 24, 2021.
• Speaker: Regard sur le top 10 en droit des affaires [A look at the Top 10 in business law], as part of the annual convention of the Québec Bar on the top decisions in business law in 2014 and the first half of 2015, with an emphasis on those involving procedure and evidence, contract disputes, trademarks and fundamental rights, La Malbaie, June 10-12, 2015.
• Speaker: Regulators, Investigations and Recent Case Law, presented to the team of investment advisors of a wealth-management firm as part of their professional development program, Montréal, 2014.

LL.B., Université de Montréal, 2009