Carine Farran
Partner- Deputy Managing Partner
Head of the Transactional Practice Group
Carine joined the firm in 2012, and became a Partner and Deputy Managing Partner in April 2020.
She is the Deputy Anti-money Laundering Officer for the firm in Qatar.
She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2008.
Carine is the head of the transactional practice group. She advises numerous clients in banking and finance, financing instruments and funds, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, oil and gas, private businesses on commercial and financial matters such as purchase and sale transactions, private financing, shareholders relationships, cross-border transactions, management contracts and any other type of commercial transaction and contracts and other types of commercial transactions and contracts.
Before joining the firm, Carine has worked in leading law firms in Montreal, Canada and has specialized in various civil litigation and professional liability matters.
She graduated from the University of Montreal with a Bachelor of Law. She also holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut, and a D.E.S.S in e-commerce from HEC Montreal.
Carine is also a co- lecturer at the Lebanese American University, at the LLM program, in Project Finance and PPP, Corporate Governance and Mergers and Acquisitions; as well as a co-lecturer at the American University of Beirut, at the Energy Studies program, in Energy Law. Carine is one of the lecturers at Tamayyaz in the independent corporate director certification program.
Carine is certified as an independent corporate director by the International Financial Corporation (IFC).
Carine is fluent in English, French and Arabic.