BENOÎT
Groleau
Expertise: transportation law | business law | mediation and arbitration
Montréal
630 boul. René-Lévesque Ouest, Suite 2780
Montréal, Québec H3B 1S6
T 514-393-4580 | 1-833-795-4580 | F 514-393-9590
Having practiced law for 46 years, Benoît Groleau has extensive experience in commercial and corporate affairs as well as transportation industry law. He is also a certified commercial arbitrator. During his career, he has been involved in numerous large-scale merger and acquisitions cases and has headed up many large financing assignments involving lending institutions, venture capital companies, and public-private partnerships (Regional Economic Intervention Fund/FIER).
Benoît has taught administrative law at Université du Québec à Montréal and special contracts at École du Barreau de Montréal. A sought-after speaker, he also publishes corporate law articles in industry magazines.
His field of specialization:
- Transportation
Assistant: Johanne Harnois
Other titles
- Certified arbitrator in commercial disputes
- Civil and Commercial Mediator
Expertise
- Transportation law (contracts of carriage, license applications, business law pertaining to transport, road transport law, criminal offences in and outside Québec, obligations of owners, operators, and drivers of heavy vehicles, , representation before criminal and civil courts, interprovincial and international transport)
- Business law (public contracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions)
- Mediation and arbitration (civil mediation, commercial mediation)
Education
- LL.B., University of Ottawa (1970)
- B.A., University of Ottawa (1967)
Professional experience
- Cain Lamarre (2004 to present)
- Gowling Lafleur Henderson (Montreal)
- Corbeil Groleau Dufresne (Montreal)
- Paquet Perreault Toupin (Montreal)
Lecturing, conferences, publications
- Coauthor of "L’encadrement légal du transport routier par véhicules lourds au Québec", published by CCH
- Instructor in administrative law, transportation sector, UQAM
- Instructor in special contracts, Montreal Bar School
- Various lectures and training sessions on transportation and arbitration
- Articles in La Presse on consumer and moving company rights
- Articles on corporate law in Transport Magazine and L’Alternative Financière
Associations, committees, boards
- President, Corporation du Collège Saint-Hilaire
- President, Commercial Arbitration Tribunal
- Former president, Centre d’aide aux entreprises de la Rive-Sud
- Former chairman, Board of Directors, Goyette Transport
- Former vice president, Institut d’arbitrage et de médiation du Québec
- Former director, ADR Institute of Canada, Inc.
- Former member, Bar committee on the new Quebec Civil Code
- Former member, Quebec Bar Association advisory committee on amendments to the Civil Code