Patrick Plante

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Participates in defending important class actions,
  in particular: Belongs to the BLG team representing JTI-Macdonald Corp. in the class actions against tobacco manufacturers (Conseil quebecois sur le tabac et la sante c. JTI-Macdonald Corp. et al.
  Letourneau c. JTI-Macdonald Corp. et al.)
  Defends the interests of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in the class action relating to the Lac Megantic accident (Ouellet c. Canadian Pacific Railway Company et al.)
  Defends the interests of Google in two class actions before the Quebec Superior Court dealing respectively with privacy (Elkoby c. Google Canada Corporation et al.)
  consumer rights (Benabu c. Videotron et al.)
  Defends the interests of HSBC in the Defrance Non-Sufficient Funds (NSF) fee class action (Defrance et Vaillancourt-Thivierge c. Banque de Montreal et al)
  Defends the interests of British Airways in the passenger fuel-surcharge class action (Option consommateurs c. British Airways p.l.c.).
  Defends the interests of Aeroports de Montreal in the class action relating to the agreements concluded with Uber
  Teo Taxi (Zaim et D'Amico c. Procureure Generale du Quebec et al.)
  Defends the interests of AIC Global Holdings Inc. in the class action relating to the so-called market timing financial operations (Ravary c. Fonds mutuels CI Inc.
  AIC Global Holdings (500-06-000256-046)
  Participated in the debate concerning the constitutional validity of the Tobacco-related Damages
  Health Care Costs Recovery Act.
  Has represented individuals who have been the victims of defamatory campaigns on the Internet
  has taken measures to protect their public images.
  Has participated in obtaining an injunction order to prevent protesters from obstructing the access to
  free circulation in
  around an airport.
  Has obtained injunction orders in the case of trademarks violation
  forced a company to change its corporate name.
  Has represented a Canadian financial institution before the courts in a dispute dealing with unjustified enrichment of adverse parties resulting from an error made in a bank transfer
  Has participated in the debate on prohibiting the disclosure in court proceedings of supervisory information sent to the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.