Marie-Emmanuelle is a partner practising in the tax area. She focuses on income tax law, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and international tax and estate planning.
Marie-Emmanuelle has participated to the structuring of various transactions for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., Alexis Nihon and SITQ, as well as many financing and real estate acquisitions.
From 2004 to 2006, Marie-Emmanuelle worked in Geneva, Switzerland, with a leading international law firm, where she mostly concentrated on international tax and estate planning and immigration/emigration solutions.
Marie-Emmanuelle has also been a tax lecturer assistant at the McGill University Law School and a guest lecturer at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) where she presented international taxation to MBA students.
Marie-Emmanuelle is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation, the International Fiscal Association, l’Association de planification fiscale et financière (APFF) as well as a monthly tax study group. Marie-Emmanuelle has contributed to several articles and has completed a thesis on international taxation.
Marie-Emmanuelle received an LL.B. from Université Laval in 1996 and won the Carswell Award for highest standing in Tax. She completed a Masters Degree in taxation at Université de Sherbrooke in 1998. She has also completed levels I, II and III of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants In-Depth Tax Course. She became a partner in 2003.
Marie-Emmanuelle is fluent in French and English.