Valérie Belle-Isle, Jean-Sébastien Desroches, and Édith Jacques are recognized as leaders in Canada, highlighting the firm’s excellence and strategic role in the field of technology law.
Valérie Belle-Isle is a partner in Lavery’s Administrative Law group. Her practice focuses primarily on environmental law, urban planning, land use planning, and territorial development. She advises and represents public- and private-sector clients on matters involving, in particular, environmental obligations, the obtaining of authorizations and permits, the enforcement and challenge of urban planning by-laws, as well as expropriation files. She also assists municipalities with the legal validation of their decisions and the planning of their projects. Recognized for her strategic and practical approach, she also practises in the areas of municipal taxation and property assessment, in addition to contributing regularly to publications and training activities.
Jean-Sébastien Desroches practises business law and focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure, renewable energy and project development as well as strategic partnerships. He has had the opportunity to steer several major transactions—complex legal operations, cross-border transactions, reorganizations, and investments—in Canada and at an international level on behalf of Canadian, American, and European clients and international corporations and institutional clients in the manufacturing, transportation, pharmaceutical, financial, and renewable energy sectors.
Édith Jacques, partner, lawyer, and trademark agent in Lavery's intellectual property group. Edith Jacques is the Chair of the firm's board of directors and a partner in the Montreal business law group. She specializes in mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, and international law. She acts as a business and strategic advisor to medium and large private companies. She is highly involved with manufacturing companies and energy firms.
About Lavery
Lavery is the leading independent law firm in Quebec. Its more than 200 professionals, based in Montréal, Québec City, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières, work every day to offer a full range of legal services to organizations doing business in Quebec. Recognized by the most prestigious legal directories, Lavery professionals are at the heart of what is happening in the business world and are actively involved in their communities. The firm’s expertise is frequently sought after by numerous national and international partners to provide support in cases under Quebec jurisdiction.