AndréAnne Fortin

 Lawyer
Key practice areas
Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Securities Litigation, Internal and Regulatory Investigations, Compliance and White Collar Defence, Corporate Reorganization, Insolvency and Restructuring
Québec Bar 2013
Québec City
+1 438 844 7818
andreanne.fortin@langlois.ca
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AndréAnne Fortin practises civil and commercial litigation. She focuses her practice on complex litigation involving commercial law issues, as well as corporate and securities matters. She also practises in bankruptcy and insolvency.

With her keen business sense, AndréAnne represents companies and shareholders before the courts, including in oppression remedies, plans of arrangement, regulatory inquiries by the Autorité des marchés publics, extraordinary remedies, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance and pension plan issues.

In addition to her law degree, AndréAnne holds an MBA, making her ideally placed to understand the complex realities of the business world and to offer sound advice to companies that use her services. She clerked with the Honourable Guy Gagnon at the Québec Court of Appeal, which enabled her to quickly acquire a keen understanding of court operations and judicial reality.

AndréAnne graduated from law school on the Dean’s list for her excellent results. She has also received numerous scholarships for academic excellence in both law and business administration. In particular, she received a scholarship to study abroad, which enabled her to complete her MBA at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE) and develop a good knowledge of Spanish.

  • Oppression remedies
    Counsel for private corporations or shareholders in connection with oppression remedies.
  • Plans of arrangement
    Counsel for public companies in arrangements under the Canada Business Corporation Act or the Business Corporations Act (Québec).
  • Pensions
    Counsel for pension committees regarding governance and fiduciary responsibility.
  • Injunctions
    Counsel for corporations, either as petitioners or defendants, in injunction proceedings.
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency
    Counsel for creditors in bankruptcy or arrangement proceedings.
  • Autorité des marchés publics regulatory inquiries
    Counsel for public companies under regulatory inquiry by the Autorité des marchés publics.
  • Insider trading
    Defence of individuals facing charges of insider trading.
  • Jacques-de-Billy Scholarship, 2011
  • Fonds Raymond-Garneau Scholarship, 2011
  • Faculty of Law Dean’s List, Université Laval, 2011
  • MBA Association of Québec, Member, since 2020
  • Canadian Bar Association, Member, since 2013
  • Young Bar of Montréal, Member, since 2013
  • Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations (IGOPP):
    • Member of the Young Directors’ Executive Committee, 2014-2023
    • Participation in the Young Directors Governance Training Program, 2013-2014
  • Université Laval, Teaching Assistant in Legal research and writing, 2011
  • Université Laval, Teaching Assistant, 2011
  • Court of Appeal, Clerk to the Honourable Justice Guy Gagnon, 2010-2011
  • Author: “Chronique – La preuve en matière de délits d'initié devant les tribunaux administratifs spécialisés à la lumière des développements jurisprudentiels récents” [Column – The evidence of insider trading before specialized administrative tribunals in the light of recent jurisprudential developments], La Référence, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2016.
  • Contributor: Collaborative update to fascicule 14 of the book « Valeurs mobilières » [Securities], JurisClasseur Québec, coll. « Droit des affaires », Montréal, LexisNexis, 2013-2014.
  • Co-speaker: Rôle des administrateurs et du conseil : délimiter leurs devoirs et responsabilités [The role of directors and the board: defining duties and responsibilities], as part of a workshop series on corporate litigation, Langlois Knowledge, webinar, September 23, 2021.

MBA, Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa, 2012

LL.B., Université Laval, 2011

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