Marie-Pier Baril

Expertise

Business, Commercial and Corporate Law

• Business Start-Ups
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Reorganization
• Employee Incentive Plans
• Management Buyout
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Transfer of Family Businesses

Litigation

• Shareholder's Disputes

Notarial Practice- Wealth Protection

• Estate Planning
• Trusts

Strategic Teams

• Business Transfers
• Corporate Services
• Wealth Protection

Professional background

Marie-Pier Baril practices business law, with a particular focus on corporate governance rules and shareholder relations.

Ms. Baril has also been involved in several tax and estate planning matters involving the drafting of wills, trust deeds, mandates in the event of incapacity and corporate restructuring documents.

She has also developed a special interest in the issue of business succession and transfers.

A graduate of the Université de Sherbrooke, Ms. Baril received the Barreau du Québec prize and the Dean of the Law Faculty prize for academic excellence and involvement in university life.

Publications

• “La relève de l’entreprise et la planification successorale : gérer le risque… ou gérer la crise”, Marie-Pier Baril and Pierre Lamontagne, Droit des PME, Collection Centre d’études en droit économique (Charlaine Bouchard, Dir.), Cowansville, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2011, p. 491.

Involvement

Member of the golf Classique committee of the Université Laval Faculty of Administration Sciences

Professional affiliations

• Member of the Jeune chambre de commerce de Québec
• Member of the Association de planification fiscale et financière (APFF) succession committee
• Member of the Jeune Barreau de Québec

Conferences

• Presentations given to more than a dozen accounting firms in the Quebec City area on the new Quebec Business Corporations Act.
• Conference on the accountability of directors of cooperatives (November 28, 2010).

Publications

• Nouvelles > Pierre Lamontagne and Marie-Pier Baril join BCF’s Quebec City Office September 19th, 2011