Jean-François Gagnon
Lawyer, Partner - Montréal
Jean-François Gagnon
Lawyer, Partner - Montréal
Jean-François Gagnon is the Chief Executive Officer of Langlois Lawyers. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, corporate governance, strategy, crisis management, ethics and deontology. He has wide-ranging experience in matters involving directors’ and officers’ liability, the management of not-for-profit organizations, construction law and insurance law.
Jean-François also has extensive experience in matters involving professional liability, and has acted in matters involving the liability of directors and officers of financial institutions, lawyers, architects, engineers, and professionals in the medical and hospital fields. He is also well-versed in disciplinary and professional law.
Education
Civil Law, LL.B., Laval University, 1986
Diploma in French Literature, Laval University, 1983
Rankings & Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in Canada 2024
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2023
- Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2023
- Chambers Canada 2023
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2023
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2022
- Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2022
- Chambers Canada 2022
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2022
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2021
- Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2021
- Chambers Canada 2021
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2021
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2020
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2020
- Chambers Canada 2020
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2020
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2019
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2019
- Lexpert/ROB Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Litigation Lawyers 2018
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2019
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2018
- Benchmark Canada 2018
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2018
- Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers 2017
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2017
- Benchmark Canada 2017
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2017
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2016
- Benchmark Canada 2016
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2016
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2015
- Benchmark Canada 2015
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2015
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2014
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2013
The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013
Lexpert Zenith Award 2010 – Corporate Law in Non-Profit Sector
Martindale-Hubbell® LexisNexis®, BV rating
Areas of Practice
- Construction Risk
- Corporate Governance / Directors & Officers
- Directors & Officers Liability
- Drafting and Interpretation of Insurance Policies
- Financial Institutions and Financial Services Law
- Insurance
- Insurance Compliance
- Insurance Litigation
- Product Risk
- Professional Liability
- Reinsurance
- Transportation Liability
Industries
Publications
Articles
News
- 2020 – Solina, TGOD and goPeer choose Langlois to assist with their business transactions
- 2019 – Retrospective 2018 | 10 Successes for Langlois’ Transactional Group
- 2018 – Léonie Derome and Jean-François Gagnon Publish an Article on the Confidentiality of an Insurer’s Internal Documents in InHouse Canadian Lawyer
- 2018 – Jean-François Gagnon to Be Honoured at the Gala des Talentueuses of the Association of Quebec Women in Finance
- 2017 – Jean-François Gagnon, Portrait of a Visionary and a Builder in La Presse+
- 2017 – Victory in Court of Appeal for Langlois’ Insurance Team
Other Publications
2018 – “Confidentiality of internal documents – Recent decision departs from Solmax ruling”, co-authored with Léonie Derome, published in Canadian Lawyer InHouse magazine, March 2018
2017 – “Indemnisation du gouvernement face à celle de l’industrie : une cohabitation devra se développer” (Government indemnification versus indemnification by the industry: the two must learn to cohabit), Journal de l’Assurance
2017 – “Les assureurs responsables des communications émises par leurs distributeurs en leur nom, préviennent les avocats” (Insurers are liable for communications issued by their distributors on their behalf, lawyers warn), Journal de l’Assurance
2017 – “La technologie à l’assaut du droit” (Technology’s assault on the law), Les Affaires
2015 – “Contrat de réassurance : notions et principes” (Reinsurance policies: concepts and principles) and “Les ententes de réassurance” (Reinsurance agreements), in collaboration with Valérie Lemaire, in Sébastien Lanctôt et al., Le contrat d’assurance de dommages et le contrat de réassurance : sujets choisis (Property and casualty insurance policies and reinsurance contracts: selected topics), Montréal, LexisNexis
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