Overview

Michel Brunet practices corporate and commercial law from Dentons' Montreal office. His practice focuses on the sale and acquisition of business corporations and on their financing needs.

Michel advises many public, state-owned and private corporations in various sectors, including institutional fund management, energy, manufacturing, commercial, financial services and brokerage. He also advises foreign companies on their establishment or acquisition projects in Canada. He has developed special expertise in regulatory compliance, advising corporate executives and directors, take-over bids, underwritings, private placements, stock exchange listings, offering memoranda, broker registration, debt financings, syndications, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and shareholder agreements.

Over the years, Michel contributed to the senior management of Dentons Canada LLP. He has held the position of Managing Partner of the Montreal office of Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC) and is a former member of the National Board of the Firm. He also was the Chief Executive Officer of FMC, one of Dentons’ three founding firms from 2006 to 2010. Michel was the Chair of Dentons Canada LLP, a function he held from 2005 to 2017. Michel devotes much of his practice to providing strategic legal advice to a number of the firm’s major clients.

Michel is a director and member of the Governance Committee of Azimut Exploration Inc., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. He serves as Chair of the Board of the Arbour Foundation and as a director of Québec’s Fondation des artistes. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of Peak Financial Group.

He previously served for many years on the board of the Fondation Charlevoix-Saguenay and was a member of the Board of Directors of Aéroports de Montréal from 2019 to 2022, where he also sat on the Governance Committee.

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Corporate Law
• Commercial Law
• Securities
• Corporate & Commercial Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1975 (QC)