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Patrick Ferland
Partner
BAR OF QUÉBEC – 2000
BAR OF NEW-YORK – 2000
BAR OF MASSACHUSETTS – 2001
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Mr. Ferland has a wide experience in civil and commercial litigation, as well as administrative and public law litigation. He is recognized by his peers as a lawyer with great legal and advocacy skills, capable of analyzing the most complex situations, identifying the crucial legal issues, and developing novel arguments. Given his experience before appeal tribunals, as well as in the preparation of applications for leave to appeal before the Supreme Court of Canada, his services are at times retained directly at the appeal stage to assist the attorneys in charge of the file before the court of first instance or take over and reorient the file.
Mr. Ferland has particular expertise in class actions, international law (jurisdiction of Quebec courts, recognition of foreign judgments, homologation and annulment of arbitral awards, etc.), public and administrative law (e.g.judicial review of governmental decisions, proceedings against the Crown, constitutional law), as well as appeals.
He has been actively involved in many large files, where he has acted for major private corporations and Crown corporations, in addition to acting on behalf of a foreign State and of foreign public entities.
Mr. Ferland has represented clients before the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal of Quebec, as well as before the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Mr. Ferland is a member of the Canadian delegation at the Special Commission on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the World Organisation for Cross-border Co-operation in Civil and Commercial Matters, which comprises 81 States and the European Union as members (The Hague, February and November, 2017). Since 2011, he teaches evidence in civil matters at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where his class covers the law of evidence in Quebec and in Canadian common law provinces. He also co-authors the private international law section of the “Collection de droit”, a series of law books edited by the École du Barreau du Québec, and is the co-editor and a contributor of the Guide de l’arbitrage (LexisNexis), a treatise covering all aspects of the law of commercial arbitration in Quebec.
In addition to his professional commitments, Mr. Ferland has always been involved in the community. He is currently President of the International law section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), Quebec Branch, and an executive committee member of the CBA’s National Section of International Law.
Education
M.Sc. Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2003
B.C.L./LL.B., McGill University (1998)
Awards and Recognition
Benchmark Canada – Litigation Star (2017, 2018, 2019)
Professional Associations
Barreau du Québec
Canadian Bar Association
International Commission of Jurists
American Bar Association
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