KARIM RENNO

514 934-7739 - krenno@imk.ca

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Assistant

Ghita (Rita) Ikhouane
514 935-4460
gikhouane@imk.ca

EDUCATION

  • LL.B., Queen's University, 2000
  • B.C.L., University of Sherbrooke, 1999

YEAR OF CALL

  • Quebec Bar: 2002

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Corporate and commercial litigation, class actions, access to information and product liability

PROFILE

Karim Renno joined IMK as a partner in September 2011. Karim's practice focuses on class actions, franchise and distribution litigation, shareholder disputes, bankruptcy and insolvency, competition law, constitutional law, privacy law, employment law and securities law litigation. He has amassed a vast experience and enjoys an excellent reputation with regard to private international law matters and injunctions, having argued before the Supreme Court of Canada on multiple occasions in cases involving such issues. Moreover, Karim has represented some of the most important companies before all levels of Québec courts. He is the founder and editor in chief of the "À bon droit" blog and contributes hundreds of case comments every year. In fact, his blog was named best practioner legal blog in Canada for 2012 by the Canadian Law Blog Awards. In 2013 he ranked as a Litigation Star in Benchmark Litigation. Finally, Karim regularly appears before parliamentary commissions entrusted with the tasks of studying various bills.  

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

  • Member of the Quebec Bar 
  • Member of the Canadian Bar Association
  • INSOL
  • Jeune Chambre de Commerce de Montréal

PUBLICATIONS

  • "L'oppression: une affaire de famille" (co-author with George Hendy) in L'entreprise familiale : évolution et transmission-Journée Maximilien-Caron 2004, Montréal, Éd. Thémis, 2004, p. 105-121.
  • "Les injonctions dans le cadre de litiges internationaux : pouvoir des tribunaux québécois", Conference for the Canadian Bar Association, March 2007.
  • "Quebec Courts demand impartiality from experts", The Lawyers Weekly, January 24, 2003, p. 17.
  • "Quebec Court of Appeal sets new measure of damages for non-competition breach", The Lawyers Weekly, December 6, 2002, p. 9 and 17.
  • "Actions, parties et procureurs", JurisClasseur Québec, coll. "Droit civil", Procédure civile I, fascicule 4, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada.
  • "Exécution provisoire", JurisClasseur Québec, coll. "Droit civil", Procédure civile II, fascicule 2, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada.
  • "Saisie-exécution des biens meubles, des valeurs mobilières et des titres intermédiés sur des actifs financiers", JurisClasseur Québec, coll. "Droit civil", Procédure civile II, fascicule 7, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada.
  • "Promesses de vente et d'achat", JurisClasseur Québec, coll. "Droit civil", Contrats nommés I, fascicule 2, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada.
  • "Vente de certains biens incorporels : droits successoraux et droits litigieux", JurisClasseur Québec, coll. "Droit civil", Contrats nommés I, fascicule 14, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada.
  • "L'impact des articles 54.1 C.p.c. et suivants : la continuité d'une révolution judiciaire", Conference for the Young Bar Association of Montreal, September 17, 2009.
  • "La clause de non-sollicitation est morte, longue vie à la clause de non-communication?", Les développements récents sur la non-concurrence, June 10, 2011.
  • Conférencier pour le guide pratique en ligne de l’Association du Barreau Canadien pour la séance intitulée « Interrogatoire principal de témoins de fait ».
  • Host for the online practical guide of the Canadian Bar Association for the program "Examinations in Chief of Fact Witnesses" (in French).