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Christine Plante

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Christine Plante provides full-service legal advice and representation for all employment, labour and human resource needs. Her experience as corporate counsel to a large federally-regulated employer offers a unique perspective to providing client services. Christine knows the importance of providing responsive, sound, and practical legal advice.

Christine effectively represents clients at all level of court and in administrative hearings, arbitrations and mediations. She has a number of reported decisions defending wrongful and constructive dismissals and enforcing restrictive covenants.

What Clients Say

"Christine Plante is widely regarded as one of the best management-side employment lawyers in Calgary. She is a straight shooter and provides very practical legal advice. She is strategic in the way she makes use of her time and our money."

Christine provides management support for all human resource needs including preparing employment contracts, policies and compensation plans; investigating workplace harassment, discrimination and fraud complaints; advising on drug and alcohol testing, successorship planning, dismissals and general workplace practices; guiding clients through M&A transactions, restructuring and downsizing; and, enforcing confidentiality agreements and non-competition/non-solicitation covenants.

Christine has significant experience with various extraordinary remedies for effective fraud recovery, which overlaps with her employment practice when assisting clients in recovering assets and protecting confidential and proprietary information.

Christine believes in mentorship and philanthropy. She is the Vice-Chair for the Board of Directors of the Brenda Strafford Society for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Chair for the Human Resources Committee.

Christine has received industry recognition including the 2018 Lexpert Rising Star Award, Benchmark Litigation Canada's recognition on the Under 40 Hot List, and Chambers Canada's Up and Coming ranking for Employment & Labour.

Education

University of Regina, BA, 2001, with great distinction University of Calgary, LLB, 2005, dean's honours list

Bar Admissions

Alberta, 2006

Recent Experience

Litigation & Dispute Resolution
M&A Transactions

Defending wrongful dismissals:

  • Carroll v ATCO Electric Ltd., 2018 ABCA 186, 2018 ABCA 146, 2018 ABQB 98, 2017 ABQB 426, 2017 ABQB 641, 2017 ABQB 267, plaintiff's leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada denied
  • O'Brien v Akita Drilling Ltd, 2018 ABQB 1062
  • Costigan v Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 2017 ABQB 294

Dismissals for long delay and want of prosecution:

  • 4075447 Canada Inc v Pacrim Developments Inc, 2018 ABQB 358
  • Megatrend Holdings Inc. v Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 2008 ABCA 236 and 2007 ABQB 346

Resisting summary judgment:

  • Talisman Energy Inc v Questerre Energy Corporation, 2017 ABCA 218 and 2016 ABQB 618
  • McKenna v Walton Global Investments Ltd.

Defending attachment orders:

  • Pinto Ventures Ltd. v Soost, 2016 ABQB 454

Injunction orders to enforce non-solicitation and non-competition agreements:

  • Renfrew Insurance Ltd. v Cortese, 2014 ABQB 157
  • Renfrew Insurance Ltd. v Cortese, 2014 ABCA 203

Fraud judgments against former employees:

  • Frydman v Pelletier, 2015 ABQB 289 and 2013 ABQB 225.
  • M-I Drilling Fluids Canada, Inc v Cottle Ltd, 2018 ABQB 143

Disclosure and attachment orders to trace, freeze and recover assets:

  • Bank of Montreal v Cochrane, 2012 ABQB 212
  • Bank of Montreal v Cochrane, 2011 ABQB 259
  • Bank of Montreal v Cochrane, 2010 ABQB 476

Representing executive in stock option recovery action:

  • Garner v Devon Canada Corporation, (2007), 404 A.R. 247 (C.A.), 2007 ABCA 134

Damages for personal injury:

  • Holizki v Alberta (Public Trustee), 2009 ABQB 260 / 2008 ABQB 716

Miscellaneous

  • Big Plans for Little Kids Ltd. v Souster, 2021 ABCA 73
Alcanna Inc. in its approximately $320-million acquisition by Sundial Growers Inc. 
Riverstone Holdings LLC, as Canadian counsel, in its agreement to acquire International-Matex Tank Terminals from Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation for US$2.7 billion.
Morgan Stanley Energy Partners, in its investment in Specialized Desanders Inc., a leading oilfield equipment company.
Schlumberger Production Management, on the purchase of the Palliser Block assets in Alberta from Cenovus Energy Inc. for cash consideration of $1.3 billion.

Recent Recognition

The Legal 500 Canada
Next Generation Partner, Labour & Employment
Benchmark Litigation
Ranked on the Under 40 Hot List
Chambers Canada
Ranked, Employment & Labour – Alberta
Lexpert Rising Star
Recognized as a 2018 rising star winner

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