Xavier Ménard
Avocat Associate
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Ménard is a bilingual banking and finance lawyer with 11 years’ experience advising on complex debt financings, acquisition finance and infrastructure and energy project deals, now practicing at Stikeman Elliott in Montréal. He represents borrowers, banks, institutional lenders, private equity funds and project sponsors on sophisticated transactions and has developed specialized expertise in debt finance involving digital assets and DeFi across jurisdictions. His background includes clerking at the Superior Court of Québec, international fund-formation work in Paris, and multi-year practice at leading global firms, giving him a practical cross-border perspective. Academically grounded with B.C.L./LL.B. degrees from McGill and an LL.M. in legal theory from the University of Toronto, he combines doctrinal scholarship—published work on cryptocurrency, legal theory and interpretation—with hands-on deal execution. Colleagues note his “eternal student” curiosity and knack for translating emerging crypto-finance concepts into workable transactional solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws - LLM, Legal Theory, Master of Laws - LLM, Legal Theory at University of TorontoBachelor of Civil Law (BCL) / Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law, Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) / Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law at McGill UniversityDEC Sciences Humaines, DEC Sciences Humaines at Cégep de l'Outaouais, Campus Gabrielle-RoyDiplôme de 5ième année au programme d’éducation internationale, DES / IB, Diplôme de 5ième année au programme d’éducation internationale, DES / IB at École secondaire de l'ÎleFormation professionnelle, Droit, Formation professionnelle, Droit at École du Barreau
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
pii10
datalad10
preprocess10
django10
large-data10
insert10
data-sharing10
django-rest-framework10
neuroimaging10
portal10
science10
flask10
database10
open-science9
data-quality9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xlecours/LAMID_PREVENT-AD
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
LORIS-API-MRI-Images-downloader for PREVENT-AD is a python script to download scans and their qc from a LORIS instance using its API
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
mri-imagesapidownloaderpythonloris
xlecours/conp-portal
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
:bar_chart: The CONP data portal
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 6 months
bar-chartchartdata-portalportal
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