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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices

1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Suite 900
Montréal, QC H3B 5H4
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Mathieu Piché-Messier

Work Department
Dispute Resolution: Québec
Position
Partner and National Business Leader, Commercial Litigation
Career
Mathieu Piché-Messier is the national business leader of the Commercial Litigation Group. He has significant experience in both civil and commercial litigation, particularly in the areas of:
- extraordinary remedies (injunction and freezing orders);
- commercial fraud;
- high technology;
- industrial espionage;
- identity theft;
- competition law;
- defamation law;
- entertainment law;
- intellectual property rights;
- aviation law; and
- international arbitration.
Mathieu was a member of the parliamentary committees of the National Assembly responsible for reform of the Québec Code of Civil Procedure. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) in 2018. He was also inducted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsels of America in 2021.
He has acted for plaintiffs in preparing and enforcing seizures before judgment, injunctions and Anton Piller, Mareva and Norwich injunctions and orders. He has also acted as an independent supervisor solicitor for several Canadian law firms.
Languages
English and French
Memberships
- Fellow, The Litigation Counsel of America (LCA)
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL)
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, International Bar Association
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Member, The Advocates’ Society
- Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Montréal Division
Education
- LLB, Université de Sherbrooke
Bar Admission
- Québec, 1998
Personal
- Member, Board of Directors, Cirque Éloize
- Member, Board of Directors, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
- Member, BLG Pro Bono Committee
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Dispute resolution: Quebec
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP‘s disputes capabilities in Quebec cover class actions, white collar crime, cybersecurity, IP and banking and financial services-related litigation and arbitration. The group is frequently sought out by companies in the telecoms, aerospace, automotive and consumer goods segments. The practice is jointly directed by Mathieu Piché-Messier and Gabriel Lefebvre, both of whom are based in Montreal. Piché-Messier specializes in commercial fraud, industrial espionage, competition and IP litigation; Lefebvre focuses on construction law, with particular focus on engineers’ liability and contractors’ claims. François Grondin (civil and commercial litigation); Alexander De Zordo (litigation, investigations, arbitration); and Karine Chênevert (class actions, securities litigation) are additional names to note. Anne Merminod left the firm in July 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property