Laurent Massam

Laurent Massam is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office and was the leader of the firm’s Canadian Intellectual Property Litigation & Strategy Group from 2020 to 2023. Laurent has nearly 20 years of experience as a litigator and advisor in respect of all forms of IP disputes and complex commercial litigation. He has appeared as litigation counsel in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, advertising and marketing matters and commercial disputes, representing clients before the Federal Courts, the Copyright Board of Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the SCC. Laurent regularly provides strategic advice to his domestic and international clients and leads them through mediations and other forms of negotiation. He is the former head of the firm’s Pro Bono Program, which he ran for over a decade. In 2019, Laurent was named a Lexpert's Zenith Award winner in recognition of his leadership of that program and in 2016, was named one of Lexpert‘s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40. Laurent is recognized by Managing Intellectual Property as a copyright IP Star, in Chambers Canada, IAM Patent 1000, World Trademark Review 1000, as well as being named to the Legal 500 Canada 2023 and 2024 Hall of Fame and in the Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers 2023 list.