Alexandre  Fallon

Alexandre Fallon

Partner, Litigation

Key Contact: French Language Laws

Contact Information

afallon@osler.com

tel: 514.904.5809

Office

Montréal

Alexandre has a broad litigation practice and also advises clients in a wide range of industries on regulatory and statutory compliance. As a litigator, Alexandre has acted in a wide range of corporate and commercial litigation, class actions, including securities class actions, employment and labour disputes, franchise litigation and in regulatory, environmental and indigenous law matters.

As a trusted advisor on regulatory and statutory compliance, Alexandre is regularly called upon to advise on issues specific to consumer protection, employment and labour and compliance with the Québec Charter of the French Language. Alexandre has developed expertise specific to financial services, travel and leisure, energy, marketing and distribution, and food products, particularly the regulated marketing of agricultural products.

Alexandre has appeared before the Québec agricultural and food products marketing board (the Régie des marches agricoles et alimentaires du Québec), the Québec energy board (the Régie de l’énergie), the Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission, the Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal, a Canadian Judicial Council Inquiry Committee, various arbitral tribunals, the Court of Québec, the Québec Superior Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Québec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also advised clients appearing before the Québec environmental assessment board (the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement) and a Joint Review Panel constituted by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Government of Canada. Alexandre regularly represents clients in their dealings with the board charged with overseeing compliance with the Charter of the French Language (the Office Québécois de la langue française) as well as the Québec consumer protection bureau (the Office de la protection du consommateur) and the Travel Industry Council of Ontario.

From 2013 to 2019, Alexandre taught various subjects in the North American Common Law Program at the Université de Montréal including torts, judicial remedies and trial advocacy.

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    • Veolia Health Operating Services Montréal L.P., in the context of  its role as Service Provider for the maintenance of the new hospital facility of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
    • Defending neighborhood disturbance and violation of zoning and environmental regulations claims before the Québec Superior Court in the context of residential development
    • Bausch Health Companies Inc., before the Québec Superior Court and the Québec Court of Appeal, in relation to its defence against a securities class action and individual investor actions
    • Association of Ontario Chicken Processors, in a variety of proceedings before the Québec Superior Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Régie des marches agricoles et alimentaires du Québec, the Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission and the Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal regarding the regulation of live chicken marketing in Québec and Ontario (see, for example, Éleveurs de volailles du Québec et Association of Ontario Chicken Processors, 2018 QCRMAAQ 24)
    • The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, before the Québec Superior Court and the Québec Court of Appeal, in relation to its defence against three class actions regarding mortgage creditor insurance and life insurance (see, for example, Ehouzou c Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, 2019 QCCS 2017, Louisméus c Compagnie d’assurance-vie Manufacturers (Financière Manuvie), 2017 QCCS 3614 and Leroux c Compagnie d’assurance-vie Manufacturers, 2015 QCCS 4347)
    • Lunettes Dépôt Inc., before the Québec Superior Court in the context of litigation with franchisees
    • Lightspeed POS Inc., before the Québec Superior Court, in relation to its defence against a copyright infringement claim
    • Defending, before the Québec Superior Court and the Court of Appeal, an application to enforce a foreign arbitral award
    • Senstar Corporation, before the Québec Superior Court, in relation to its defence against a claim for the alleged failure to satisfy public procurement bid specifications
    • Aimia Inc. and Aimia Canada Inc., before the Québec Superior Court and the Québec Court of Appeal, in relation to their defence against three class actions relating to taxes, fees and surcharges paid by members of the Aeroplan reward program when redeeming miles for flight rewards
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  • Benchmark Litigation Canada: Recognized in Dispute Resolution (40 & Under Hot List; Future Star)
  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Recognized in Class Action Litigation; Corporate and Commercial Litigation
  • The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: Recognized in Class Actions; Litigation - Corporate Commercial
  • Thomson Reuters: "Stand-out Lawyer"
  • Martin C. Domke Prize, Willem C. Vis 15th Moot Court on International Commercial Arbitration, Second-class Honours, 2008
  • Saint-François Judicial District Magistrature Award, University of Sherbrooke, 2007
  • Excellence Award from the Languedoc-Roussillon region for foreign students, 2007

  • Canadian Bar Association, Québec Branch, Citizenship and Charter Committee, President
  • Intégration Jeunesse du Québec, Member of the Board

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Advocates’ Society
  • Association Pipeline

Publications

  • « Significant changes to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language could impact estates and trusts », STEP Inside, Vol 21, No. 3, November 2022 (with Héléna Gagné).

Previous speaking engagements

  • Speaker, Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario 28th Annual Conference, Ottawa, May 3, 2018
  • Speaker, Association des cycles supérieurs en droit de l’Université de Montréal Seminar, Montréal, April 10, 2018
  • Speaker, Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario Education Awards, Keynote Speaker, Toronto, February 4, 2017
  • Speaker, Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal Clerkship Program Speaker Series, Ottawa, February 3, 2017