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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices

1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Suite 900
Montréal, QC H3B 5H4
Canada
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Gabriel Lefebvre

Work Department
Commercial Litigation and Construction
Position
Partner and Regional practice leader for both Construction and Commercial Litigation Groups.
Career
Partner in Construction Group of BLG’s Montréal office. Regional practice leader for both Construction and Commercial Litigation Groups. Practice focuses on matters of contractors’ claims, infrastructure and engineers’ liability. Represents and advises contractors, property owners, engineers, bonding companies, and insurers in matters involving all aspects of construction industry. Involved in many high-profile cases and advises clients for major infrastructure projects. Admitted to Québec Bar in 2005.
Languages
French, English
Memberships
Chair, Construction Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2018-2020), Québec Branch; Member, Canadian Bar Association; Member, Legal Affairs Committee, Association of Consulting Engineering Companies.
Education
LLB, Université de Montréal, 2003; Accelerated Leadership Program, Harvard Law School, 2020.
Personal
Husband and father of three kids.
Leisure
Mortorcyclist and crossfit enthusiast.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Construction
(Next Generation Partners)Canada > Dispute resolution: Alberta
In Calgary, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP thrives on a number of litigious fronts including pipeline, construction, electricity, insolvency and securities-related litigation. Local practice head Patricia Morrison KC was appointed to KC in April 2022, a recognition of her routine involvement in colossal infrastructure, industrial and commercial project disputes, and the team is also bolstered by the presence of Randall Block KC, widely considered a market leader for all-manner of energy and oil and gas litigation. As for the Ontario practice, David Di Paolo, Nadia Effendi and Kathleen McDormand take lead with their team garnering particular recognition for its performance in class action defence, investigations, commercial fraud and white-collar crime proceedings in addition to financial institution, securities and banking-related matters. Guy Pratte is a particular standout at the Toronto office, largely due to his first-rate track record in commercial litigation, class action, constitutional law and administrative law proceedings. Mathieu Piché-Messier and Gabriel Lefebvre jointly spearhead the Quebec practice which provides the firm with cybersecurity, privacy, IP, arbitration and ADR proficiency, meanwhile in Vancouver, Robert Deane and Sarah McEachern co-lead a team with significant fraud, insurance, cybersecurity, banking and aboriginal right capabilities.
Canada > Dispute resolution: British Columbia
In Calgary, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP thrives on a number of litigious fronts including pipeline, construction, electricity, insolvency and securities-related litigation. Local practice head Patricia Morrison KC was appointed to KC in April 2022, a recognition of her routine involvement in colossal infrastructure, industrial and commercial project disputes, and the team is also bolstered by the presence of Randall Block KC, widely considered a market leader for all-manner of energy and oil and gas litigation. As for the Ontario practice, David Di Paolo, Nadia Effendi and Kathleen McDormand take lead with their team garnering particular recognition for its performance in class action defence, investigations, commercial fraud and white-collar crime proceedings in addition to financial institution, securities and banking-related matters. Guy Pratte is a particular standout at the Toronto office, largely due to his first-rate track record in commercial litigation, class action, constitutional law and administrative law proceedings. Mathieu Piché-Messier and Gabriel Lefebvre jointly spearhead the Quebec practice which provides the firm with cybersecurity, privacy, IP, arbitration and ADR proficiency, meanwhile in Vancouver, Robert Deane and Sarah McEachern co-lead a team with significant fraud, insurance, cybersecurity, banking and aboriginal right capabilities.
Canada > Dispute resolution: Quebec
In Calgary, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP thrives on a number of litigious fronts including pipeline, construction, electricity, insolvency and securities-related litigation. Local practice head Patricia Morrison KC was appointed to KC in April 2022, a recognition of her routine involvement in colossal infrastructure, industrial and commercial project disputes, and the team is also bolstered by the presence of Randall Block KC, widely considered a market leader for all-manner of energy and oil and gas litigation. As for the Ontario practice, David Di Paolo, Nadia Effendi and Kathleen McDormand take lead with their team garnering particular recognition for its performance in class action defence, investigations, commercial fraud and white-collar crime proceedings in addition to financial institution, securities and banking-related matters. Guy Pratte is a particular standout at the Toronto office, largely due to his first-rate track record in commercial litigation, class action, constitutional law and administrative law proceedings. Mathieu Piché-Messier and Gabriel Lefebvre jointly spearhead the Quebec practice which provides the firm with cybersecurity, privacy, IP, arbitration and ADR proficiency, meanwhile in Vancouver, Robert Deane and Sarah McEachern co-lead a team with significant fraud, insurance, cybersecurity, banking and aboriginal right capabilities.
Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
In Calgary, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP thrives on a number of litigious fronts including pipeline, construction, electricity, insolvency and securities-related litigation. Local practice head Patricia Morrison KC was appointed to KC in April 2022, a recognition of her routine involvement in colossal infrastructure, industrial and commercial project disputes, and the team is also bolstered by the presence of Randall Block KC, widely considered a market leader for all-manner of energy and oil and gas litigation. As for the Ontario practice, David Di Paolo, Nadia Effendi and Kathleen McDormand take lead with their team garnering particular recognition for its performance in class action defence, investigations, commercial fraud and white-collar crime proceedings in addition to financial institution, securities and banking-related matters. Guy Pratte is a particular standout at the Toronto office, largely due to his first-rate track record in commercial litigation, class action, constitutional law and administrative law proceedings. Mathieu Piché-Messier and Gabriel Lefebvre jointly spearhead the Quebec practice which provides the firm with cybersecurity, privacy, IP, arbitration and ADR proficiency, meanwhile in Vancouver, Robert Deane and Sarah McEachern co-lead a team with significant fraud, insurance, cybersecurity, banking and aboriginal right capabilities.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners - Canada > Construction
- Dispute resolution: Alberta - Canada
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia - Canada
- Dispute resolution: Quebec - Canada
- Dispute resolution: Ontario - Canada
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- International trade
- Technology
- International trade
- Banking and finance
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Business immigration
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute Resolution