Caroline Biron

• Represented the executive director of a prominent museum in a reputational claim in the wake of a highly publicized dismissal.

• Defended an accounting firm against a claim of C$55-million by a trust for losses allegedly incurred as a result of the faults of the accounting firm.

• Represented a renowned French publisher in a series of proceedings brought in the wake of an asset purchase transaction it had concluded with a competitor, pursuant to which the competitor filed for bankruptcy.

• Represented a forensic accounting firm in two motions for a stay, filed by a pharmacy retailer and its pharmacists, of an administrative investigation by the Province of Quebec against them on the grounds that the firm had violated their professional secrecy over the course of said investigation.

• Represented a global office property company in the context of an application for an injunction by a group of minority shareholders who were seeking to postpone the company’s annual general meeting.

• Defended an auditor against a claim by the buyer of a company who was claiming that it relied on faulty financial statements that he had audited to make the decision to purchase the company.

• Defended a trustee in bankruptcy against a claim of over C$4-million by the purchasers of a bankrupt cheese factory on the basis that they relied on false representations made to them by the trustee and other defendants to make the decision to purchase the cheese factory and that, in that context, the defendants also committed several faults which had caused them damages.

Caroline is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society whose membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than 0.5% of American and Canadian lawyers.

Caroline has been recognized as a leading lawyer in several publications, including:

• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory – 201­5–2023 (Arbitration, Corporate Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Directors’ & Officers' Liability and Professional Liability)

• Lexpert Special Edition – Canada's Leading Litigation Lawyers – 2019–2023

• Benchmark Litigation – 2017–2023 (Litigation Star)

• Benchmark Litigation 2022 (Top 100 Women in Litigation in Canada)

• Benchmark Litigation – 2020–2021 (Top 50 Women in Litigation)

• Benchmark Litigation 2019 (Top 25 Women in Litigation)

• The Best Lawyers in Canada – 2019–2023 (Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Class Actions, Product Liability Law and Director and Officer Liability Practice)

Caroline chairs the board of directors of the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and is board member of the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation and The Advocates’ Society. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Quebec Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).

Caroline has taught evidence at the Quebec Bar School for several years and has acted as a mentor in the pilot project of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. She is a current member of the following associations:

• Canadian Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• International Association of Lawyers
• Association des diplômés en droit de l’Université de Montréal (ADDUM)

• Author: Ces nouveaux vices qui nous guettent
  Premières en affaires, April–May 2015.
• Co-author: Recent Developments in Brokers' Liability in Canada
  Annual Review of Civil Litigation, Carswell, 2011.
• Co-author: The Certification of Class Actions in Canada
  Annual Review of Civil Litigation, Carswell, 2006.

• Co-chair: Symposium pour les femmes en litige 2019
  The Advocates’ Society, Montréal, November 23, 2021.
• Panellist: Nouvelles perspectives des conseils d’administration sur les incertitudes, risques et crises : L’évolution des attentes envers les PDG en temps de pandémie
  Institute of Corporate Directors, Montréal, November 19, 2021.
• Moderator: Covid-19 et la rémunération des exécutifs: qu’est-ce qui va changer (ou pas)?
  Institute of Corporate Directors, Montréal, December 1, 2020.

Global Certificate and Designation in Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), Competent Boards – 2022
Certificate in Corporate Governance (ASC), Université Laval – 2017
Admitted to the Quebec Bar – 1992
LLB, Université de Montréal – 1990
Administrative and Commercial Studies, University of Western Ontario – 1987