Amélie T. Gouin

Partner

Montréal
AGouin@blg.com
514.954.3108
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Amélie practices mainly in commercial litigation and specializes in the fields of competition law, advertisement and marketing, extraordinary recourses, shareholder disputes, fraud and intellectual property. She prepares documentation used in trials and pleads before various judicial bodies in Québec.

Amélie also acts in various class actions and has a special interest for litigation regarding false or misleading representations in the advertisement and marketing of consumer goods, particularly claims related to:

  • telecommunications
  • food law
  • health

Experience

  • Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society et al. (Blais c.) (a class action relating to sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by members of Jehovah’s Witnesses)
  • Loblaws et al. (Govan c.) (a class action relating to a cartel for fixing bread prices)  
  • Loblaws et al. (Gosselin c.) (a class action relating to the price of “Big Pack” meat)

Beyond our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member, Québec Bar Association
  • Member, Young Bar of Montreal
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Jeune chambre de commerce de Montréal
  • Member, The Advocates' Society

Community Involvement

  • Director, Jeune chambre de commerce de Montréal
  • Director, Fondation de la Jeune chambre de commerce de Montréal
  • Director, École de Cirque de Verdun
  • Director, Foundation of Stars
  • Director, Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recipient of the “Administrateur de la Relève” Award at the 2018 “Gala Les Grands Prix de la Relève d’Affaires” organized by the “Regroupement des jeunes chambres de commerce du Québec”
  • Recipient of the Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2016 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award
  • Finalist in competing for the title of "Avocat(e) pro bono/implication sociale" at the Young Bar Association of Montréal Gala in 2013

Bar Admission & Education

  • Québec, 2012
  • BCL/LLB (Civil Law and Common Law), McGill University, 2011
  • BA (Hons.) in Political Science, McGill University, 2008