Isabelle Desharnais

Isabelle Desharnais is the national co-chair of our Insolvency and Restructuring Group. Her areas of practice include insolvency and financial restructuring, banking law, banking litigation and corporate finance. She advises both legal and special accounts groups of leading Canadian financial institutions, as well as trustees and accounting firms on complex commercial insolvencies. Desharnais also practises in commercial litigation, specializing in matters of fraud, bills of exchange and other payment instruments. Desharnais previously worked as a research analyst at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, with lawyers and policy advisors of the Office of Values and Ethics. She was involved in drafting internal policies for federal public service employees, particularly the Values and Ethics Code and the Policy on Internal Disclosure of Information Concerning Wrongdoing in the Workplace. Desharnais is a member of the Executive Committee, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section of the Canadian Bar Association (Québec Division) since 2016; she is also its former president.