June 16, 2010
BCF Receives Award from Corporate INTL Magazine
BCF has received the Information Technology Legal Excellence in Canada Award by the Corporate INTL’s 2010 Global Awards. The Corporate INTL Global Awards honour excellence in law firms worldwide. For more information please consult the press release.

January 14, 2010
BCF Sponsors the 10th Edition of CEO Vision
Daniel Paul and Guy Rouleau will represent BCF during this exclusive seminar aimed at Quebec's technology CEOs, which will be held February 18 to 20, 2010 at the Fairmont Tremblant. Guy Rouleau will deliver a presentation on February 18. To learn more on the seminar, visit CEO Vision's website.

September 28, 2009
CEFRIO Launches a Governance and IT Guide with BCF
This guide, freely available on the website of the Francophone Centre for the Computerization of Organizations (CEFRIO), aims to give provide board members with the information and practical tools that they need to properly address IT-related matters. It was prepared in collaboration with BCF (Daniel Paul and Serge LeBel), the Corporate Directors’ College (Collège des administrateurs de sociétés), the Montreal Computer Research Centre (Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal), the Information Security Institute (Institut de la sécurité de l’information), consulting firm DMR (a Fujitsu corporation) and the Flight Plan corporation (Plan de vol). CEFRIO’s mission is to help organizations boost their productivity and contribute to the well-being of citizens through the use of information technology as a level for change and innovation. Click here to open the guide, which is available in French only.

August 12, 2009
International Law Office: an Article by Daniel Paul
This article titled "Innovation and Outsourcing: Are the Two Compatible?" was published on July 28 in International Law Office, an online magazine. Visit the International website to learn more. [PDF

August 11, 2009
Exclusive Course on Internet Law Offered by Federated Press
This course will be held on September 22 and 23 in Montreal. BCF's partner Daniel Paul will be one of the invited experts. Several topics will be discussed, such as the protection of trademarks on the web, copyrights and e-commerce. Check out the program to subscribe. This course will be given in French only and is recognized by the Barreau du Québec. [PDF]

June 23, 2009
Course on Service Level Agreements
The fourth edition of this course will take place on October 8 and 9 and will be recognized by the Barreau for continuing legal education credits. Daniel Paul, the co-leader of BCF’s Business and Technology team, will be among the lecturers and will also lead the discussion panel, titled “Understanding Service Level Agreements and Outsourcing.” For more information, click here.

January 26, 2009
BCF is pleased to announce that P. Mario Charpentier, co-managing partner at BCF, is featured in the 2009 edition of Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.

September 30, 2008
Technology Commercialization and Business
Start-up: New partnerships.
P. Mario Charpentier, partner and co-leader of the Business and Technology team. [PDF]

September 26, 2008
Neuralitic Systems raises $7 million with Vertex Venture Capital, BDC Venture Capital and Go Capital Fund
Neuralitic Systems, the Montreal-based firm that provides ground-breaking data services analytics to network operators and communication service providers, announced today it has secured its expansion plans, an initiative bolstered by major investments of $7 million led by Vertex Venture Capital with the participation of the existing investors, BDC Venture Capital and GO Capital L.P. During this transaction, Neuralitic was represented by a BCF team comprised of Patrice Picard and Mario Charpentier. [PDF]

June 27, 2008
Edmonton to be site of world’s first industrial scale municipal waste-to-ethanol facility
Edmonton will be home to the world’s first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste. The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada’s largest ethanol producer and Enerkem, a leading biofuels technology company and BCF’s client. The $70 million biofuels facility will initially produce 36 million litres of biofuels per year and reduce Alberta’s carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint by more than 6 million tonnes over the next 25 years. During this transaction, Enerkem was represented by Jocelyn Auger. [PDF]

June 6, 2008
Isacsoft inc. to be Acquired by a Company Controlled by Ronald Brisebois for Approximately $4.2 Million
Isacsoft Inc. and BriseboisCo, a company controlled by Ronald Brisebois, the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Isacsoft announced today that they have entered into a preamalgamation agreement pursuant to which BriseboisCo has agreed to enter into an amalgamation with Isacsoft. During this transaction, Mario Charpentier, Gilles Seguin, Pascal de Guise and Adam Allouba represented BriseboisCo. [PDF]

April 3, 2008
Prevtec Microbia Launches its Vaccine in Canada
Prevtec Microbia, one of BCF’s clients, launched a vaccine last December aimed at protecting piglets from diseases that may develop after their weaning. The company hopes to break into the Canadian market in the next few months. For further details, please refer to the article that appeared in La Presse on April 3. [PDF]