Overview

Jean-Pierre Colpron (1960-April 3, 2022) was a senior partner in Norton Rose Fulbright's Montréal office and a leading business-law adviser. He joined Ogilvy Renault in 1998 after practising at Pouliot Mercure, Miller Thomson, Lavery and Desjardins Ducharme; the Ogilvy Renault combination with Norton Rose Fulbright followed in 2011, and he had been appointed Ogilvy Renault senior partner in 2008. His practice covered business and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private-company transactions, private equity, joint ventures, commercial agreements and tax-driven corporate reorganizations. He advised or represented Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Cirque du Soleil and Rona, including the Caisse's commercial-paper restructuring and major windfarm and Cirque transactions. He served on Norton Rose's Montréal executive committee from 2006 to 2011, spoke for the Canadian Tax Foundation and Québec's Association de planification fiscale et financière, delivered the Meredith Memorial Lectures and taught corporate law in the Québec Bar Admission Course. He held an LL.L. from Université de Montréal and a Master of Taxation from Université de Sherbrooke and was called to the Québec Bar in 1982.

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Corporate & Commercial Law

Bar Information

Barreau du Québec, 1982

Professional Details