Profile: Madeleine Renaud

Competition

Biography: Competition

Madeleine Renaud is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault's competition group in Montreal. Ms Renaud advises a broad range of Canadian and international clients on all aspects of Canadian competition law. She has been involved in several landmark cases involving competition legislation before the courts and the Competition Tribunal, including Chrysler Canada, Imperial Oil Limited, Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires et al, Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society et al, ADM Agri-Industries, Astral Media, Cascades Fine Papers Group and others. She also represents clients in class actions against corporations allegedly involved in cartel activities, both nationally and internationally.

Ms Renaud was chair of the national section of competition law of the Canadian Bar Association in 2005 and 2006; she was previously chair of the international competition and trade law committee and of the criminal matters committee of the section. She was selected by the Canadian Competition Bureau to be to be part of an external task force of lawyers and expert economists appointed to advise on reforming the cartel legislation. She was appointed in 2006 by the government of Quebec to be part of a list of members to hear disputes pursuant to the Internal Trade Agreement. In 2007, she was awarded the title advocatus emeritus by the Quebec Bar in recognition of her professional excellence, outstanding contribution to the profession and exceptional outreach.

Ms Renaud authored a number of papers relating to competition law and other topics and is a frequent guest speaker at national conferences on competition law. Ms Renaud is rated by the Martindale-Hubbell directory and appears in all editions of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a complete guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as being a leader in competition law, as well as all editions of Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers. She is also featured in Euromoney Legal Media Group's 2004 Guide to the World's Leading Competition & Antitrust Lawyers and was selected in the "Top 100 Women in Antitrust" published by Global Competition Review.

Ms Renaud received her bachelor's degree in Translation as well as her civil law degree (LLL), summa cum laude, and her Common Law law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Ottawa. Ms Renaud clerked with the Honourable Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. She is called to the Bars of Quebec and Ontario and is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association (antitrust law section) and the International Commission of Jurists - Canadian section. Ms Renaud is fluent in both English and French.