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Renée Tousignant Associate | Montréal

About Renée

Renée practises corporate and commercial law and advises clients on a variety of issues, including intellectual property, communications, consumer protection, product advertising and regulatory compliance across a wide range of industries. She also takes part in corporate transactions, especially as they involve technology and IP centered companies and highly regulated industries, notably assisting in due diligence, drafting transaction documents and transaction closing. Renée also assists in drafting and reviewing commercial agreements, licensing agreements and other technology-related agreements.

Drawing on her prior experience working in the film industry, Renée advises on all aspects of development, production, financing, copyright protection, web/online content, licensing, corporate organization and distribution for feature films and television programs. She also guides telecommunications and broadcasting companies in connection with their Canadian regulatory obligations and interacts with the relevant communications regulators regarding annual filings and licensing matters.

Renée is fluent in English and French.

Select Experience
  • Meeker Aviation on its sale to Signia Aerospace, a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management

  • Dover Corporation on various transactions, including its acquisitions of Bulloch Technologies Inc. and the Transchem Group

  • Getty Images in its acquisition of Unsplash Inc.

  • Eclipse Automation, a provider of customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions headquartered in Ontario, Canada, on its sale to Accenture

  • Multi-Health Systems Inc. in its acquisitions of Core Systems and of People Technologies

  • The Fertility Partners in its acquisitions of several fertility clinics across Canada

  • Rose LifeScience Inc. in connection with an equity investment by Tilray, Inc.

  • GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals S.A. on its collaboration agreement with Medicago Inc. to develop, manufacture and distribute a COVID-19 candidate vaccine

Awards & Recognition

Renee is recognized in the following publication:

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada (2025: Information Technology Law; 2024: Intellectual Property Law)

Education

Admitted to the Quebec Bar – 2019
BCL/LLB, McGill University – 2018
BA (Communication Studies and Film Studies), Concordia University – 2012

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