Leduc, Antoine
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Dr. Antoine Leduc is a partner in the Banking and Financial services, Real Estate and Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring Law strategic teams of BCF. He is leader of the Banking and Financial Services strategic team and co-leader of the Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring strategic team.
Dr. Leduc’s practice is focused on banking and financial services law, as well as on bankruptcy and reorganization matters. He represents banks, financial institutions, trustees in bankruptcy and debtors in a variety of contexts that include domestic and cross-border financing, infrastructure finance, syndicated loans, factoring transactions, real estate lending, asset-based lending and equipment financing to corporate reorganizations and restructurings, refinancing and enforcement proceedings. Dr. Leduc is also heavily involved in two other important areas, namely, international commercial transactions and legal reform projects in developing countries.
Approached by various legal bodies for his expertise, Dr. Leduc has been a member of the board of directors of the Quebec Branch of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) since 2008. He is President of the CBA Quebec Branch for 2014-2015. Dr. Leduc has been founding Co-Chair of its Legislation and Law Reform Committee from 2008-2013, and President of its Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuration Section for 2007-2008. In 2006, he was appointed to the Consulting Panel created by the Autorité des marchés financiers du Québec with respect to the study of the Act respecting the transfer of securities and the establishment of security entitlements (Quebec).
His writings are regularly quoted by the courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada referred to one of his texts in Caisse populaire Desjardins de l’Est de Drummond v. Canada, 2009 SCC 29.
In November 2009, Dr. Leduc was recognized by Lexpert Magazine as one of Canada’s “Rising Stars - Leading Lawyers under 40.” Moreover, he was also named among the “Canadian Corporate Lawyers to Watch” in the 2010 Lexpert Guide to the leading US/Canada cross-border corporate lawyers in Canada. In September, 2010, he was appointed “Fellow” of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, an award received by few Canadians.
Since 2001, Dr. Leduc has been teaching several business law courses at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal, where he is adjunct professor. He teaches in both the bachelor’s and the master’s programs, including the Advanced Secured Transactions Law course in the Master of Laws Program (Business Law). He is also Research Fellow at the faculty’s Chair in Governance and Business Law.
In February 2000, Dr. Leduc was invited by both the Quebec and Canadian governments to represent them, in Washington, D.C., as a Quebec civil law expert with respect to secured transactions, at the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Second Meeting of Experts for the Sixth Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-VI). This led to the adoption of the 2002 Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions, which aimed at standardizing this area of law across the Americas.
As a lawyer involved in law and development projects, Dr. Leduc has advised the Arab Republic of Egypt in connection with the reform of its real estate finance laws and institutions. In 2009, he led a team who completed a field study for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, regarding its urban planning, housing and real estate law reforms.
Having earned a Doctorate of Laws from the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal (with great distinction) in 2011, his LL.D. thesis is published in French by Les Éditions Thémis under the title Mondialisation et harmonisation du droit des sûretés (Globalization and Harmonisation of Secured Transactions). Dr. Leduc’s book won the 2013 Quebec Bar Foundation’s legal competition award in the category “Monograph and Treatise”. Dr. Leduc also holds a Master’s degree in business law from Université de Montréal, which he earned in 2002. His LL. M. thesis was awarded the 2001-2002 Quebec Association of Law Teachers’ Prize for the best thesis submitted to Quebec faculties of law (including the University of Ottawa’s Civil Law Section).
Dr. Leduc obtained his civil and common law degrees from McGill University, where he was research assistant to the late Professor Emeritus Paul-André Crépeau at the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law (now the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law). He was called to the Quebec Bar in January 1998.
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Antoine Leduc
BCF
1100 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, 25th Floor
Montréal
(QC)
H3B 5C9
Telephone 1 : 514 397-6702
Fax : 514 397-8515
Email : Antoine.Leduc@bcf.ca
Web : www.bcf.ca/en
Categories : Justice
Last Update : 2015-02-16
