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Back to the list P. Mario Charpentier Managing Partner Telephone : 514 397-6950  Fax: 514 397-8515 Email: pmc@bcf.ca Assistant(s): Céline Frenette Telephone: 514 397-6699 # 3483 Fax: 514 397-8515 Email: cf@bcf.ca Marie Rivard Telephone: 514 397-6699 # 3467 Fax: 514 397-8515 Email: mr@bcf.ca Printable version Download Vcard DIPLOMAS Called to the Barreau du Québec (1986) LL.B., Université de Sherbrooke (1985) FIELDS OF PRACTICE Business Law Business Start-Ups Canadian Taxation Corporate Finance Corporate Reorganizations Cross-Border Transactions Domestic and International Taxation Equity Financing Estate Planning Management Buyout Mergers and Acquisitions Profit-Sharing Plans Public-Private Partnerships Sale and Acquisition of Businesses Securities Law Technology Transfers Transfer of Family Businesses Venture Capital Financing Wealth Management ECONOMIC SECTORS Biotechnology Brokers/Dealers E-Commerce/Internet Forestry Information Technologies Institutional Investors Mines Natural Resources Pharmaceuticals Printing Private Investors Small and Medium Size Enterprises Universities BIOGRAPHY In 1995, Mario Charpentier founded with six of his colleagues BCF, a law firm and patent and trade mark agents office, today numbering more than 130 professionals in Québec. He represents emerging companies in the high-tech and biotechnology sectors, in addition to various research centres and Quebec universities and their commercial branches, as well as certain venture capital funds. Mario has over 20 years experience in corporate taxation, primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, financing, and shareholder tax and estate planning. He also assists corporations looking to launch an IPO, as well as those seeking to acquire a business or develop partnerships. While since the beginning of his practice he devoted his expertise to young businesses in the new economy, Mario has also represented medium to large family enterprises. His expertise in this area is considerable, particularly when it comes to transfers of family businesses between generations, as well as employee incentive plans and management buy-outs. Since 1999, Mario has participated in more than 200 private, venture capital or public financings, primarily for his corporate clients. He has also participated in various trans-border transactions involving American and European companies. Mario is recognized as one of the most frequently recommended practitioners in the area of Technology Law in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2008. Mario has also been nominated in the 2008 edition of the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (compiled by LEXPERT/American Lawyer). OTHER FUNCTIONS Mario serves on numerous boards of directors of various emerging corporations as director, member or observer. For a number of years, he was on the Board of Directors of the Fiscal and Financial Planning Association of Quebec, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Export Development Canada (EDC). He also has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal (CHUM). He is a member of the BCF Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and is one of the people responsible for recruitment and professional services at BCF. PUBLICATIONS Réforme du Code civil en matière de droit des sociétés et des personnes morales, Congrès annuel du Barreau du Québec (1995), Service de la formation permanente du Barreau du Québec, Montréal, juin 1995. Étude de cas B : Impact des modifications apportées au paragraphe 112(3) L.I.R. sur les conventions entre actionnaires, Congrès 1996, Association de planification fiscale et financière, Montréal, 1996. "Restrictions des pertes en capital lors d'un rachat d'actions", Colloque 1996, Association de planification fiscale et financière, Montréal, décembre 1996. Opérations préalables au premier appel public à l'épargne, Congrès 1997, Association de planification fiscale et financière, Montréal, 1997. Étude de cas A : Premier appel public à l'épargne, Congrès 1998, Association de planification fiscale et financière, Montréal, 1998. Les Risques d'obtenir … du capital de risque, Congrès 1999, Association de planification fiscale et financière, Montréal, 1999. CONFERENCES Comment acheter une PME, Symposium organized by HEC Montreal, Mouvement des caisses Desjardins and Acquizitions.biz in collaboration with several business partners, speaker and member of the conference guide drafting team, September 27, 2007. Management Buy-Out, Symposium on financial and fiscal aspects of human resources / human resources at the time of the information technology revolution, November 27, 2002.