Guy Du Pont is a litigation partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. He was awarded the honour of “Avocat Émérite” by the Barreau du Québec at its Annual Meeting in May 2008. He has been a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 2001. He was elected to the American Law Institute in June 2005, one of fourteen Canadians to earn this honour since the Institute was founded in 1923 and currently contributes to three consultative groups, namely on sentencing, intellectual property and aggregate litigation. He is a Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and has been appointed to the Tax Court Bench and Bar Committee of the Canadian Bar Association where he acts as Chair since September 2007.

Guy specializes in complex and "high stakes" litigation in the fields of taxation (including federal and provincial income tax, customs, excise and consumer taxes), constitutional and administrative law, commercial disputes, criminal investigations, compliance matters, environmental and competition law and class actions. He has appeared as lead counsel in a number of groundbreaking cases, including cases decided by provincial Courts of all levels, by the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal and by the Supreme Court of Canada in Concordia University v. Bisaillon, Binet v. Pharmascience Inc. and Dunne v. Revenue Québec.

Guy is recognized as one of Canada's leading litigation counsel by a number of different directories, including The International Who's Who of Commercial Litigators, Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers in both the competition/antitrust and dispute resolution categories, Expert Guide's List of the World's Leading Competition & Antitrust Lawyers, The Best Lawyers In Canada, Empire Who's Who, The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers, Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists and Global Counsel 3000. He has been named by LEXPERT as one of Canada's top fifty (50) counsel in the areas of international corporate commercial, class action and securities litigation and one of Canada's top four (4) counsel in the area of tax litigation. Guy is featured in the LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He has been awarded the highest rating by Martindale-Hubbell® an organization which recognizes pre-eminent legal ability, expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence.

Guy is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Bars of Québec and Ontario, the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He has participated in and written papers for numerous conferences including the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Association de planification fiscale et financière, the Meredith Memorial Lectures, the Faculty of Law of McGill University, the Canadian Bar, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants as well as the Mouvement des Entreprises de France et la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris. He has also taught in the Department of Chartered Accountancy of McGill University.

Guy obtained an LL.B. degree from the University of Ottawa in 1975.

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