Mira Gauvin is a counsel in our Business Law Group in Montréal and has particular expertise in Environmental and Aboriginal Law.
Her practice extends from counselling her clients on the impacts of jurisprudence and legislation on their activities, on compliance with environmental laws, on environmental permitting requirements, on preparing land rehabilitation projects as well as on the implementation or closing of industrial sites projects.
Mira Gauvin negotiates and drafts the environmental clauses of commercial transactions, land rehabilitation agreements and related indemnity clauses. She also conducts environmental due diligence including aboriginal issues in the context of various types of business transactions.
Mira Gauvin represents clients from all industrial sectors and has particular expertise in mining and other natural resources, land rehabilitation and waste management. She advises her clients from the mining industry on the preparation of remediation plans in compliance with the Environment Quality Act and the Mining Act. She also counsels her clients on various aboriginal issues.
From 2006 to 2012, Mira Gauvin was successively, the secretary, vice-president and chair of the Québec Branch for the Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources Section of the Canadian Bar Association.
Prior to her law career, Mira worked as an environmental consultant in an engineering firm and later became the environmental and quality advisor for the Technical Services Division of the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM).
Mira received her B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University in 1989 as well as her M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the Université du Québec in Montréal in 1992. She received her BCL and LLB from McGill University in 1999.
She was called to the Québec bar in 2001.