Joseph Jacques Robert Picard

Robert Picard is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer with almost 40 years of experience helping entrepreneurs, private companies, investors, funds, and established businesses structure, negotiate and close important transactions. His practice spans mergers and acquisitions, shareholder agreements and disputes, complex commercial contracts, private equity and debt fund structures, debt and equity financings, corporate governance and strategic business succession.

Clients turn to Robert for practical, deal-minded advice where legal structure and business objectives need to work together. He is particularly effective on mandates where ownership, financing, tax, governance and operational issues intersect, and where the parties need a clear path from commercial concept to implementable transaction documents.

Certified by the Law Society as a specialist in Corporate and Commercial Law, Robert has acted as lead counsel on complex investment arrangements and large-scale structured projects in industries including real estate, energy, technology and nursing and retirement homes. He brings a business-first lens to corporate transactions, helping clients identify the core commercial issues early, manage risk and build structures that are durable, workable and aligned with the client’s objectives.

Robert’s practice also includes closely held and entrepreneurial businesses, where business law, personal planning and succession considerations often overlap. He advises founders, shareholders, investors and family-owned enterprises on shareholder arrangements, governance frameworks, ownership transitions, wills, trusts and related estate planning matters connected to business ownership and wealth transfer. Robert is bilingual in English and French and works with clients in both languages.