Overview

Under the agreement of this take-private transaction worth C$9 billion, Boralex will continue to operate as an independent private company following closing.

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Pierre Renaud is a counsel at McCarthy Tétrault. Drawing on his environmental and sustainable development expertise, he plays a key role in the firm’s Business Law Group, and more specifically, with the Environmental Law Group for the Québec region.

Mr. Renaud provides the firm’s clients with strategic advice. He also provides guidance on sustainable development and social acceptability matters from the earliest project stages, as well as on public authorization, participation and consultation processes, including that of Québec’s environmental public hearings office (Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement/BAPE).

As a strategic leader, Mr. Renaud is recognized for taking a results-oriented approach and for developing innovative ideas. He has also had a unique professional career. As BAPE chair from 2007 to 2012, he was in charge of appointing and monitoring over 40 commissions of inquiry (public hearings/mediation), in addition to managing and tabling reports with Québec’s environment minister on a variety of specific initiatives, including La Romaine hydroelectric complex, the Canadian Malartic gold mine, the Arvida Aluminium Smelter, AP60 as well as more diversified mandates (commuter train, shale gas, wind power, small hydroelectric plants and landfill sites). He has overseen the successful completion of 85 public information/consultation mandates.

Practice Areas

• Environmental Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1987 (QC)