Jessica Major

Associate Counsel

Jessica Major

Jessica Major

Associate Counsel

Expertise
Bar Admissions
  • Québec, 2016

Jessica provides clients with innovative solutions to complex litigation issues.

She acts for clients in resolving disputes across a variety of areas, including civil and professional liability, contractual and shareholder disputes, class actions, environmental actions, securities and governance matters.

Jessica is the board president of Groupe Communautaire L’Itinéraire. In 2019, she was named a rising star in corporate governance by the Executive Committee of the Young Directors of the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations (IGOPP).

Jessica Major

Associate Counsel

Jessica provides clients with innovative solutions to complex litigation issues.

She acts for clients in resolving disputes across a variety of areas, including civil and professional liability, contractual and shareholder disputes, class actions, environmental actions, securities and governance matters.

Jessica is the board president of Groupe Communautaire L’Itinéraire. In 2019, she was named a rising star in corporate governance by the Executive Committee of the Young Directors of the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations (IGOPP).

A significant real estate investment fund

Acted for a significant real estate investment fund in an arbitration relating to the termination of an offer to purchase a property to establish a crypto-mining facility and a dispute relating to the release of a purchase price of $3.5 million held in trust by a third party.

Epic Games Inc. and Epic Games Canada ULC

Acting for Epic Games Inc. of North Carolina and its Canadian subsidiary Epic Games ULC in relation to a class action by users of the popular video game Fortnite.

Daisye Marcil

Acted for the plaintiffs in a class action involving all Québec parents who were required to pay fees for the purchase of school books or other didactic material even though these fees should have been assumed by the school boards.

Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust

Acting for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust  in an injunctive matter involving Librairie Raffin and Librairie Renaud-Bray in connection with the leasing of commercial premises.

Triumph Aerostructures, LLC

Acted for Triumph Aerostructures, LLC, in connection with its dispute with Bombardier Inc. regarding the wing designed and manufactured by Triumph for Bombardier's Global 7000 business aircraft, including a $455-million claim filed by Triumph before the Québec Superior Court. The dispute was ultimately resolved to both parties' satisfaction.

Confidential Client

Acted successfully for a Québec-based gas retailer in connection with criminal charges laid by the Competition Bureau for alleged price-fixing and related class actions. Davies has succeeded in obtaining a stay of the criminal proceedings against its client based on a breach of its constitutional rights.

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Bar Admissions

Québec, 2016

Education

Université du Québec à Montréal, LLB, 2015
Université du Québec à Montréal, BA (International Relations & International Law), 2013

Board Memberships

Groupe communautaire L’Itinéraire, president