Claude Paquet co-leads the Banking Law and Financial Services group. He focuses his practice in commercial litigation, liquidation, banking litigation, restructuring, and bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Claude is a gifted strategist with keen business acumen who is trusted by receivers, multinationals and SMBs undergoing restructuring, and by several major financial institutions, including one of Canada's largest banks.

Claude listens closely to clients and offers practical solutions while taking into account costs and benefits. Over the past few decades, he has helped restructure a vast number of distressed businesses, particularly in the agricultural, energy, mining, manufacturing, and retail sectors. A business partner to our clients, his 30 years of experience have called upon him to manage all short and long-term loans, financing and seizure situations in response to businesses in liquidity crisis or restructuring, in various high-tech financial sectors. He also has specific proficiency in matters involving fraud.

The volume of cases he has managed have required him to plead before all levels of Quebec courts. He also gives numerous lectures on banking and insolvency law.