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| Ronald Audette Lawyer Telephone : 514 397-6909 Fax: 514 397-8515 Email: ronald.audette@bcf.ca Assistant(s): Sylvie Chartier Telephone: 514 397-6699 # 3421 Fax: 514 397-8515 Email: sylvie.chartier@bcf.ca |
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DIPLOMAS
Called to the Barreau du Québec (1989)
LL.B., Université de Montréal (1988)
FIELDS OF PRACTICE
ECONOMIC SECTORS
BIOGRAPHY
Ronald Audette has twenty years of experience in banking, commercial and insolvency litigation.
Ronald regularly represents financial institutions in cases involving banking transactions and banking matters, such as litigation involving fraud, international money seizures and transfers, letters of credit and bills of exchange, civil liability actions against banks and the enforcement of their securities.
Ronald also regularly represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters, including shareholder disputes and extraordinary measures aimed to protect the rights of companies such as injunctions and seizures before judgment, in a broad range of industries in the business world. He also represents creditors and trustees in insolvency and bankruptcy matters.
REPRESENTATIVE MANDATES
Successfully defended the Royal Bank of Canada against one of the largest damages claims ever brought in Quebec: $95 million in principal and interest (the claim was filed by an ecclesiastical corporation in connexion with the financing of Marché Central);
Represents a financial institution in a dispute contesting a penalty clause imposed in the case of an accelerated repayment of loan;
Represents the Royal Bank of Canada in connection with a lawsuit concerning a seizure of funds under the US-Cuban Assets Control Regulations;
Successfully represented the Royal Bank of Canada in contesting an international seizure of one of its client's account in the Bahamas;
Represents financial institutions and private companies in cases of Nigerian fraud;
Successfully represented two creditors in connexion with a multimillion lawsuit against the Caisse d'économie des Portugais de Montréal concerning COFO's banking operations;
Regularly represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters, including shareholders' disputes, and successfully defended the Auger Group in a shareholders dispute involving 27 different lawsuits and millions of dollars;
Regularly acts for clients in franchisor-franchisee disputes;
Represented a mining company in injunction proceedings brought by an aboriginal group aimed at stopping the development of a mining project worth over $450M.
PUBLICATIONS
"Penalty with a Price for Financial Institutions Regarding Mortgage Repayments", article published in the International Law Office newsletter, March 17, 2009
"Bank Condemned for Prematurely Releasing Funds from Foreign Bank Draft", article published in the International Law Office newsletter, March 24, 2009
"Impatient Bank Penalized for Exercising Hypothecary Recourses", article published in the International Law Office newsletter, March 31, 2009
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal
Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce
Member of the Bar of Montreal's liaison Committee with the Superior Court in commercial matters, 2006-2009
Member of the Bar of Montreal's liaison Committee with the Superior Court in civil matters, 1998-2009