Pierre-Paul Daunais
Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Pierre-Paul is a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. He has acquired a broad experience in contentious issues and all aspects related to the management of complex litigation, having conducted over 25 hearings on the merits and over 10 in appeal in the last 17 years, making him a highly skilled and experienced trial lawyer recognized as such by his peers. His practice focuses on business law with unique Quebec expertise in aeronautics and insurance matters, construction law, municipal law and shareholders’ disputes. He is frequently called upon to act in the context of restructuring and insolvency proceedings to handle in an expedited manner, litigious aspects of various contingent claims. Examples of his diversified practice include: representing CSeries Aircraft Limited Partnership in the context of construction claims pertaining to the A220 plant and various aircraft seizures involving foreign governmental entities; and Éoliennes de l'Érable on a 6-week class action trial for disturbances caused by the wind turbine project, a first litigation of its kind in Québec.