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.

Representing a group of over 90 snow crab license holders in the context of a major claim for damages against the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans concerning resource allocation.

Defending Loto-Québec in the context of a class action instituted on behalf of individuals claiming to have become compulsive gamblers as a result of using video lottery terminals (VLTs).

Acted for an important Canadian company in relation to questions regarding the determi­nation of the law applicable to its excess insurance coverage in the context of multiple claims by shareholders.

Representing a major pulp and paper com­pany in the context of a claim for damages resulting from a natural gas outage which caused several days of lost production.

Defending a national law firm in the context of a motion for disqualification presented in the course of an action for damages totalling several hundred million dollars.

Representing a group of shareholders in the context of a dispute over the testamentary devolution of shares in the corporation.

International law, arbitration and recognition of foreign judgments