Michel Pelletier is a partner who specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate law and environmental law. Michel has a broad expertise ranging from major international acquisitions, to redevelopment of brownfields, creation of REITs and recently a public tender for 338 new subway cars for the STM, worth over a billion dollars. Michel considers himself first and foremost a business lawyer who incorporates these various specialties into his legal practice.
Michel has been responsible for several major commercial files, such as the initial public offerings of Alimentation Couche-Tard and Cott Corporation, the acquisition of the Provi-Soir, BigFoot and Circle K chains by Alimentation Couche-Tard, the acquisition of a significant minority interest by an affiliate of Gaz de France in Noverco and Novergaz, the acquisition of La Ronde amusement park by Six Flags, Inc. and, in the area of financing, the creation of the first real estate investment trust in Québec (the “Cominar REIT”), through which a large number of properties were grouped together into a trust and the shares sold to the public, and the public offering of units of the Alexis Nihon REIT and the SFK Pulp Fund, a fund created to acquire an interest and operate a large pulp plant previously wholly owned by Abitibi-Consolidated.
In 1995 and 1996, Michel was co-chair of the Canadian ICSC Law Conference. He has given several public presentations on commercial law in Québec and Ontario. In February 2003, he and other lawyers from the Montréal and Toronto offices of the firm hosted a seminar in both cities, regarding the impact of the Kyoto Accord on Canadian business and policies. Michel was recognized as expert lawyer in the area of real estate by Euromoney’s
Guide to the Worlds’ Leading Real Estate Lawyers.
Michel received his law degree from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1979, graduating not only at the top of his class but as the best student in the faculty's 25-year history. Michel finished first at Bar School as well and received the Montréal Bar Award. He became a partner in 1988.
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