Background
Marc Jolicoeur is the Ottawa Regional Managing Partner. Marc graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Laws. He was called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in 1980. Marc is fluently bilingual and practices in both official languages. He is the National Leader of the Corporate Commercial Group and a member of the firm's National Council.
Areas of Practice
- Business Law - focused in the corporate/commercial field servicing business corporations, financial institutions, crown corporations, public institutions and not-for-profit organizations.
- Regularly consulted in relation to corporate/commercial matters including contracts, governance, joint ventures, commercial transactions, reorganizations, financing, secured lending, insolvency matters and business restructuring.
Professional and Community Activities
- Former Managing Partner of Scott & Aylen (prior to BLG merger).
- Past and present teaching involvement includes senior instructor and seminar instructor at Ottawa Program of the Bar Admission Course of the Law Society of Upper Canada for over ten years; speaker at numerous conferences and continuing education programs on corporate and commercial law topics including University of Ottawa's Advanced Business Law Course.
- Past and present business involvements include the boards of several private corporations and business and trade associations and the Steering Committee of The Ottawa Partnership.
- Past and present community involvements include the boards of the University of Ottawa (Chair), University of Ottawa Foundation (Chair), Civic Hospital Foundation (Chair),Ottawa Community Foundation, United Way of Canada (Chair), United Way of Ottawa-Carleton (Chair), La Cité collégiale and the former Ottawa Civic Hospital.
- In recognition of his business and community involvement, he was awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal (2003), the Gordon F. Henderson Award (2001) by the County of Carleton Law Association, Trudeau Medal (1999) by the Faculty of Administration of the University of Ottawa, the "Médaille d'excellence" (1994) by the RGA, the President's Award (1994) and Community Builder Award (2000) by the United Way of Ottawa-Carleton and André Mailhot Award (2002) and the Chair's Award of Distinction (1999) by the United Way/Centraide Canada.
