Alex O'Reilly Partner


Speaks:  English, French

Year of Call: 2012 - Québec

Primary phone: +1 514-392-9577

Fax: +1 514-878-1450

Email: alex.oreilly@gowlingwlg.com

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Primary office:  Montréal



Alex O'Reilly

Alex O'Reilly is a partner in Gowling WLG's Montreal office. He practises primarily in Indigenous law, notably for regional and local Indigenous governments as well as Indigenous development corporations.

Alex is called upon to advise his clients on a vast array of legal and strategic matters related to Indigenous nation-building and economic development, including issues pertaining to corporate and commercial law, mining, forestry, governance, constitutional law, treaty implementation, construction law and employment and labour law.

Alex has also developed a niche experience in advising clients with regard to compliance with the regulatory environment in Quebec construction law, notably with regard to the regulations of the Régie du bâtiment du Québec (RBQ) and the Autorité des marchés publics (AMP).

He practises in both English and French.

Career & Recognition

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  • 2024

  • 2023

  • 2015

    • Community
       2015
      Coach for the McGill University Faculty of Law moot team at the Charles-Rousseau international law moot competition
  • 2012

    • Qualifications (Year of Call/Admission, etc.)
       2012
      Year of Call, Québec
  • 2010

    • Education
       2010
      McGill University, BCL/LLB
  • 2007

    • Education
       2007
      University of Oxford, M.Phil., Modern European History
  • 2005

    • Education
       2005
      McGill University, BA

Memberships

  • Young Bar of Montreal
  • Alex O'Reilly and Marianne St-Pierre Plamondon, « L'obligation de loyauté s'effrite : quelles protections reste-t-il à l'employeur? » in Développements récents en droit du travail, Service de la formation continue du Barreau du Québec, Éditions Yvon Blais, Volume 383, April 2014.

Representative Work

  • Represented the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and the Cree Nation Government as interveners in the Reference relating to section 98 of the Constitutional Act of 1867 before the Court of Appeal of Quebec and the Supreme Court of Canada.
  • Advised Indigenous development corporations on matters pertaining to governance, corporate law and labour law in the context of substantial internal reorganizations.
  • Advised an Indigenous development corporation in the context of a shareholder dispute that led to the acquisition of a company.
  • Represented Air Inuit and First Air in injunctive proceedings against a former officer and director who engaged in unfair competition practices.