Personal bio
Jacques S. Darche, C.Arb is a partner at the law firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Montréal, QC Canada and is a member of the Québec (1992) and Paris Bars. Jacques acts as counsel to parties involved in both international and domestic commercial arbitrations and he also represents parties in the homologation, recognition or contestation of arbitral awards and regularly serves as arbitrator and mediator in commercial disputes. In addition, he has a well-developed practice in commercial litigation, franchise law, real estate litigation and expropriation, international fraud, estate litigation, shareholder disputes, insolvency and financial restructuring. He has extensive knowledge of and experience with the workings of Québec’s civil courts, as well as the rules of numerous international commercial arbitral institutions. He is on the Presidential Panel of Arbitrators of the CIArb and on the International Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).
He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a Certified Arbitrator of the Institut de médiation et d’arbitrage du Québec (IMAQ) and of the Québec Bar, a member of the Arbitration Committee of ICC Canada, the ICC Institute of World Business Law and of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and is a Director of Canadian Branch of the CIArb and of the OHADAC Regional Arbitration Centre (CARO). He is also Honorary Consul of Finland for Montreal and the Greater Montreal Area.