He is a veteran legal strategist, a tenacious negotiator, and a seasoned litigator. Going on forty years of law practice, he has pleaded before the trial and appellate Courts of Québec, Ontario, the trial and appellate Federal Courts, the Supreme Court of Canada, the United States District Court and diverse administrative bodies. Mr. Bergman has represented clients before official committees of the Parliament of Canada and the National Assembly of Québec. He has steered and coordinated international litigation between several countries.

Mr. Bergman has acted as legal negotiator in a variety of commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and financing arrangements. He has acted as legal advisor for global corporations in the engagement, discharge, and international movement of senior personnel.

Mr. Bergman graduated from Montreal’s McGill University Faculty of Law where he completed both the Civil Law program, Bachelor of Civil Law, in 1975, and the Common Law program in 1976, Bachelor of Laws. He is trained in both English common law and French civil law, which are not only the legal systems of Québec or English Canada, but are also the two principal legal systems in the rest of the world. He is a member of the Barreau du Québec (Bar of Québec), Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Lord Reading Law Society.

He has written many articles and opinion editorials, in English and French, which have appeared in such publications as the Montreal Gazette, La Presse, Le Devoir, Montreal Business Magazine, L’Économique, and various trade magazines.