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Mélissa Pelletier
Bar Admission 2004
Law degree, Université de Sherbrooke (LLB)
Contact information
Legal Assistants
Partner at Montreal office, Mélissa is also Director of TCJ's business law team. She was involved with the TCJ Board of Directors from January 1, 2014 until January 1, 2022.
Mélissa practices in mergers and acquisitions, including business transfers, whether intergenerational or to key employees, third parties and/or venture capital funds. She also advises entrepreneurs integrating investors into their shareholding, whether private or institutional investors.
Her practice includes drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements and various other business contracts, executing and implementing corporate structures and carrying out major corporate reorganizations.
Always meticulous, honest and committed to whatever she undertakes. Mélissa is a key advisor for your files as she finds and implements practical solutions. Clients appreciate her easy-going nature and her approach in handling their transactions.
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Services
- Business Contracts
- Business Law
- Business Start-Ups
- Commercial Contracts
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Reorganization
- Due Diligence
- Intellectual Property
- License
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Purchase and Sale of Business
- Shareholder Agreements
- Transactional Law
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Professional activities
I have been involved in several large-scale transactions over the years, particularly:
- in numerous transactions in the agricultural and agri-food industry, including asset or share purchases or sales, family succession planning, purchases or sales to competitors, and even asset acquisitions by vesting order;
- in a major sale of shares in the health sector to a company in the same sector;
- Managing buy-outs, particularly in the manufacturing and construction sectors;
- in numerous files that included venture capitalists or investment funds as buyers, sellers and/or investors;
- in sales of businesses to publicly traded companies, particularly in the computer industry and in the printing and publishing industry;
- large-scale corporate reorganizations, business start-ups, negotiations of complex shareholder agreements and exit strategies.
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Conferences
- "Your business in the run-up to 2024 - Challenges, compliance, growth and diversification", conference given in french with Guillaume Lapierre and Clémence Therrien at the Rendez-vous TCJ en droit des affaires, 2023.
- "The impact of Bill 25 on business law", conference given in french with Guillaume Lapierre at the Quebec Bar, 2022.
- "The impact of Bill 25 on business law", conference given in french at the Colloque annuel sur les développements récents en droit des affaires, 2022.
- "Amendments to the Act respecting the legal publicity of enterprises - corporate transparency at the heart of priorities", conference given in french, 2020.
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Social Involvement
I find it important to be involved in the community and, as such I am involved in different causes that are close to my heart. In particular, I sit on the Board of Directors of the Montérégie Youth Center Foundation and in the past, I sat on various boards of non-profit organizations.
Events
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Conformité à la Loi 25 : Accompagnement mutualisé pour le Réseau des massothérapeutes professionnels du Québec (RMPQ) – Cohorte 1
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11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Les rendez-vous TCJ
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Droit du travail et de l’emploiLe Capitole
12:30 PM to 5:00 PM
News
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Business, Commercial and Corporate
New requirements for certain Canadian companies
Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act coming into effect
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Business, Commercial and Corporate
A New Era of Transparency: Is your Federal Company in Good Standing?
Since January 22nd, 2024, federal corporations are required to file with Corporations Canada the information contained in the register of Individuals with Significant Control of the corporation, and some of this information is now available to the (…)
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Business, Commercial and Corporate
Amendments to the Act Respecting the Legal Publicity of Enterprises - Corporate Transparency at the Heart of Priorities
Amendments to the Act Respecting the Legal Publicity of Enterprises aimed at promoting corporate transparency and the reliability of the information presented which came into force on March 17th, 2020.
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