Transportation and Transportation Infrastructure

Overview

Services

Carrier liability

• Civil liability of air, road, and rail carriers
• Marine, air, and land transport insurance
• Civil liability of owners and operators of aircraft, ships, and vehicles
• Transportation and charter contracts and charter-parties
• Purchase, sale, and financing of ships and aircraft
• Provincial and federal regulations and shared jurisdiction
• Agents, forwarders, and other intermediaries

Transportation infrastructures 

• Partnership agreements
• Design, construction and operating agreements
• Concession agreements
• Financing agreements
• Surveillance, maintenance and tolling agreements
• Negotiations pertaining to rights-of-way and other real rights required to exploit rights-of-way
• Agreements for services incidental to transportation

Representative mandates

Carrier liability

• Represent businesses and insurers in connection with liability claims for property damage and personal injury suffered in transit (various modes of transportation)
• Represent businesses and insurers in connection with claims for losses and damage to cargo (various modes of transportation)
• Represent insurers and owners with regard to damage to aircraft or airport facilities and personal injury and damage resulting from air accidents
• Strategic advice to clients regarding excess liability insurance in cases of catastrophic events with damage in excess of $100 million
• Strategic advice to clients on the interpretation of operating, cooperation, and indemnity agreements applicable in cases of catastrophic events involving multiple carriers and several categories of victims, including multi-jurisdictional class actions

Transportation infrastructure

• Advise a bidder for the construction, operation, maintenance, and financing, on a  public-private partnership (PPP) basis, of road infrastructure for highways A-25 and A-30
• Trade negotiations with suppliers in the rail transportation sector and representation in connection with warranty claims
• Interpretation of service agreements in the public transit sector
• Draft and implement an agreement for public transit ticket sales and revenue collection
• Represent a resource development and transportation company before the Canadian Transportation Agency
• Acquire dedicated rights-of-way and negotiate with government authorities and regulators for the creation of a bus lane
• Analyse the scope of acquired rights for carriers and representation before municipal authorities
• Sale of affiliates of a rail transportation company and a railcar ferry operation
• Legal opinion, advice, and representation in anticipation of the operation of a rail link between downtown Montréal and the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau airport
• Legal advice on the obligation to decontaminate certain rail infrastructure
• Legal advice and representation in several matters regarding the application of provincial and municipal legislation at the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau and Mirabel airports
• Negotiation and conclusion of a cost-sharing agreement for the construction of road infrastructure for a mining company in connection with the Plan Nord
• Represent the seller in connection with the transfer of a rail line to an Aboriginal cooperative
• Negotiate an agreement for the operation of a rail link by car blocks in connection with a mining project, including the analysis of the tax efficiency of the operation