Julien Saulgrain is a senior associate in the Technology Law section of McCarthy Tétrault's Business Law Group.
Admitted to practice in Québec and in France, Mr. Saulgrain concentrates in the areas of IT, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and data protection, and advises clients with respect to their commercial transactions, corporate mergers, acquisitions and financing, as well as on regulatory matters. He has extensive experience in negotiating technology-oriented cross-border transactions. Mr. Saulgrain also regularly advises clients on distribution-related matters.
Recent transactions include the following:
· legal counsel to ACE Management, manager of French private equity funds Aérofund, Aérofund II and Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (F.T.Q.) in their dip financing of Mecachrome International Inc. in the context of its CCAA process;
· legal counsel to ACE Management in the context of its investment in Maetta Sciences Inc.
· legal counsel to Progress Software Corporation, a US company, in its acquisition of the assets of Aruna Software Inc. and Aruna Solutions Inc. engaged in the business of developing query processing and data management systems;
· legal counsel to Cellpoint Connect AB, a Swedish public company, in its acquisition of Gennum Corporation's Canadian business relating to consumer wireless headsets;
· legal counsel to Constellation Software Inc. and several of its subsidiaries in their acquisitions of Gestion PG Govern and its subsidiaries (provider of end-to-end software solutions and professional services to State and Local Government agencies) and of Apak Systems Inc.;
· legal counsel to Avensys Inc. in its acquisition of ITF Optical Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of all-fiber passive photonic components and modules;
· legal counsel to governments and the telecommunications regulatory authorities of Morocco and Burkina Faso for the implementation of universal service;
· legal counsel to a 3-D ultrasound image-guided adaptive radiotherapy Québec-based company in a Series B financing;
· legal counsel to an important hotel chain for the drafting and negotiation of various worldwide software licences;
· legal counsel to the world's largest online auction services provider with its entry into the Québec market;
· drafting and negotiating a technology transfer agreement for a Québec-based company for the licensing of a distribution transformer to a Korean counterpart;
· legal counsel to a Canadian chartered bank in the implementation of its privacy, document-retention and employee-monitoring policies;
· drafting and negotiating various agreements for pharma and biotech companies (R&D, partnership, manufacturing, distribution); and
· drafting and negotiating various IT and e-commerce agreements (development, licence, maintenance, ASP, outsourcing).
Mr. Saulgrain is co-author of E-mail Law (LexisNexis Canada; 2008), the first-ever comprehensive Canadian guide on the subject, which includes systematic analyses of current and upcoming trends, cutting-edge information on e-contracts, spam, e-mail monitoring, document retention, and e-mail as evidence.
Professional Activities:
· member, Québec Technology Association (AQT) / observer, board of directors
· member, French Chamber of Commerce in Canada / member, selection committee of the Venture Capital Forum (2009 and 2010)
· member, Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can)
· member, Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
Mr. Saulgrain is a law graduate of the Université de Paris V (with honours), has received an LLM from McGill University (Institute of Comparative Law), and a DESS in new technologies law from the Université de Paris-Sud XI. He started practising law in France in 1998 and was called to the Québec bar in 2005.
Mr. Saulgrain practices in both English and French.