Real Estate Management Certification

Founded in 1987, the UDI is an independent, non-profit organization. It is the largest representative of the commercial real estate industry in Quebec. It brings together major institutional owners, the most important real estate developers, and managers, as well as industry professionals and companies working in related sectors.

Michel Deslauriers
Director, Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate
Lecturer, Finance

Michel Deslauriers is Director of the Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate and a full-time lecturer in the Finance Department of the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. Mr. Deslauriers also acts as a strategic advisor to several real estate development companies in Montreal. Before joining Concordia in 2019, he spent ten years as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer at Otéra Capital Inc., a commercial real estate financing subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Prior to his appointment at Otéra, he successively held the positions of Director of Finance and Treasury and Vice-President of Finance at Ivanhoé Cambridge. Mr. Deslauriers also held various positions at Asea Brown Boveri and KPMG-Peat Marwick Thorne. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University and a Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at McGill University. Mr. Deslauriers is a member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.

Sylvain Gariépy 

Urban planning and Social Acceptability - BC2

Sylvain Gariépy has twenty-five years of professional experience during which he worked on a wide variety of complex urban projects both as a project manager and as a consultant in multidisciplinary groups on behalf of municipalities, governmental organizations, and private clients.

As such, he started his career devoting himself to the revitalization of Montreal's business communities where he successfully worked on the development and implementation of their action plan and the achievement of the objectives they had set for themselves.

He has developed extensive experience in urban planning by working for real estate developers and for several Quebec municipalities. Indeed, he has been involved in several residential, commercial, and mix use projects over the years. The main issues encountered within these projects were the harmonious integration of new functions in the existing urban environment, the promotion and improvement of alternative and active modes of transport, and the development of sustainable communities.

He also worked on large-scale urban infrastructure projects including feasibility studies and the pre-project study of the Rapid Bus Service (SRB) on the Pie-IX Boulevard as well as on the urban integration study of the New Bridge for the St. Lawrence (Samuel-de-Champlain Bridge).

Furthermore, he has developed an expertise on legal issues, whether for the recognition of acquired rights, the urban contextualization of land subject to an expropriation procedure and the evaluation of their real development potential, etc.

Finally, he understands complex urban environments, identify their main issues, and translate them into comprehensive words. Added to this, his ability to facilitate working groups and public consultation sessions.

In summary, here are the fields of expertise that demonstrate its versatility and rigor:

▪ Urban planning and urban planning regulations.

▪ Enhancement of the urban heritage.

▪ Project management.

▪ Real estate development (development concept, regulatory modification, representation and negotiation with municipal authorities).

▪ Urban planning expert (TAQ, Superior Court, etc.).

Anthony Arquin

Partner, Davies

Anthony Arquin is a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg in the Commercial Real Estate practice. He advises on commercial real estate sales and purchases, development projects and joint ventures for public and private corporations in Canada and internationally. Anthony has significant experience working on mixed-use complexes and commercial co-ownership. He acts for developers, managers and pension funds. Anthony was named by Chambers Canada in Québec’s real estate industry, by The Legal 500 Canada as the Next Generation Lawyer in commercial real estate and by Best Lawyers in Canada as Montréal’s Real Estate Lawyer of the Year in 2019. He received the 2017 Young Builder INOVA Award from the Urban Development Institute of Québec (IDU). He is a member of the board of directors of IDU.

Elise Beauregard

Partner, Davies

Elise Beauregard is a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg. She advises on intricate and high-profile cross-border and domestic investments, mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions for a wide variety of clients, including private equity and venture capital funds, and private and public companies. She has experience in investment fund formation, secondary market transactions, joint ventures and other complex investment structures. Clients in a broad range of industries – including retail, clean tech, aviation and aerospace, real estate and infrastructure – turn to Elise for her versatility and her commitment to excellence.

In 2014, Elise was seconded for two months to the legal department of one of Canada’s largest pension funds, where she acted on infrastructure and commercial real estate investments. And in 2018, she was seconded to the Canadian legal department of a multinational operator of convenience stores.

Elise is involved in several Montréal arts and business exchange initiatives, including as an active participant in the Mécènes investis pour les arts program.

Mylène Nadeau

Partner, Davies

Mylène Nadeau is a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg. She regularly acts for some of Canada’s largest real estate investors, developers and pension funds in connection with complex commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, development projects and financings in both Canada and the U.S.

Mylène also assists Canadian and cross-border clients with their private mergers and acquisitions in a wide variety of industries.

Mylène was seconded to Davies’ New York office in the summer of 2015. She was also seconded in 2013 to the legal department of one of Canada’s largest pension funds, where she acted on real estate joint venture transactions.

Florence Simard

Partner, Davies

Florence Simard is a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg. Florence advises pension funds, real estate developers and real estate managers on the purchase and sale of residential and commercial property, real estate joint ventures, residential and commercial developments, and commercial and retail leases. She has also advised clients in connection with significant infrastructure projects in Canada and the United States.

For a period of eight months in 2016 and early 2017, Florence was seconded to the legal department of one of Canada’s largest pension funds, where she focused on infrastructure projects and private equity investments.

Florence serves on the board of Fondation Jeunes en Tête and Fondation Santé Urbaine (Hôpital de Verdun and Hôpital Notre-Dame).

Agnès Pignoli

Lawyer, Davies

Agnès Pignoli is a lawyer at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg. Her practice focuses on urban planning, public tenders, expropriation and municipal taxation. She regularly advises clients on compliance and regulatory matters, particularly on issues involving zoning, land-use planning and urban planning. Prior to joining our team, Agnès practised at a mid-sized law firm in Montréal, at a boutique firm specializing in municipal law and in the City of Montréal’s legal department.

Annie Gagnon-Larocque

Partner, McCarthy Tétrault

Annie Gagnon-Larocque is a partner in the Real Property and Planning Group of McCarthy in Montréal. Ms. Gagnon-Larocque represents and advises clients on a variety of transactions notably real estate acquisitions, real estate financings, property development, commercial leasing, and joint venture transactions. She represents financial institutions and public and private companies in the senior housing, retail and hotel industries. Ms. Gagnon-Larocque was President of CREW Montréal (Commercial Real Estate Women) from 2012 to 2014 and sat on the board of directors as Financing and Sponsorship Director. She was a finalist in the Rising Star category at the 2009 and 2010 Evening of Excellence. She is also a member of CREW Montreal, ICSC, the Urban Development Institute and the Canadian Bar Association.

Marie-Josée Marcoux

Partner, McCarthy Tétrault

Marie-Josée Marcoux is partner in the Real Property and Planning Group in Montréal. Her practice deals with financing matters as well as real estate acquisitions and dispositions, including cross-border financings for multinationals, syndicated financings, acquisition financings, taking of security interests on a nation-wide scale and the purchase and sale of commercial and residential real estate portfolios.

Ms. Marcoux holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (LL.B.) from the University of Sherbrooke, Co-op Program.

Ms. Marcoux is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Young Bar Association of Montréal. She was called to the Québec bar in 2009.

Philippe Côté

Lawyer, McCarthy Tétrault

Philippe Côté is a lawyer in the Real Property and Planning Group of McCarthy in Montréal. Philippe Côté is an associate in our Real Property & Planning Group in Montréal. His practice focuses on all aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, joint ventures, commercial leasing and real estate development.

Within his practice, Philippe represents and advises clients primarily on commercial real estate issues.Philippe completed a bachelor’s degree in law at Université Laval in 2012. While at university, he studied European law as part of an exchange program with the University of Strasbourg. Philippe was called to the Quebec bar in 2013.

Michel Leonard

President, BTB Real Estate Investment Trust

Mr. Léonard is one of the founders of the BTB Real Estate Investment Trust. Mr. Léonard has more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate.

Mr. Léonard has often played a fundamental role in assisting numerous organizations at the regional and national levels with strategic planning, analysis and renegotiation mandates and the implementation of complex transactions. He joined Colliers International (Québec) Inc. as Senior Vice-President in November 2004 and served until 2009. Mr. Léonard was co-founder of Staubach Canada Inc. where he was President from 1989 to November 2004.

Mr. Léonard is Chairman of the Board of the Organisme d'autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ) and former Chairman of the Board of the Fonds d'assurance professionnelle du courtage immobilier du Québec (FARCIQ). In 2015, Mr. Léonard was a finalist for the “Grand Prix de l'Entrepreneur” awarded by Ernst & Young. In September 2016, he obtained the ASC (Certified Corporate Director) designation from the College of Corporate Directors. Mr. Léonard has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1982.

Mr. Léonard holds a Bachelor of Commerce (1978) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (1981) from McGill University.

Martine Sirois

Senior Director (Office, Commercial and Light Industrial Division), Altus Group, Research, Evaluation and Consulting Services.

Martine Sirois is Senior Director (Office, Commercial and Light Industrial Division) at Altus Group. With over 20 years of experience, Martine works in the field of real estate valuation and has developed an expertise in the valuation of income properties, more specifically office buildings, light industrial and multi-use projects, for financing, due diligence, feasibility studies and other purposes. She is involved in the valuation of numerous national real estate portfolios for major pension funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and several private real estate companies.

Patrick Turcotte

Director of Business Development, Englobe

Mr. Turcotte has worked in the environmental field for more than 25 years, and holds a Bachelor's degree in applied sciences, which includes three certificates (Environment, Water Sciences and Techniques and Applied Geology). He started his career as a site technician and then, as a project manager, he managed numerous projects such as characterizations, evaluations, environmental follow-ups, background studies, treatment and rehabilitation of soils and groundwater as well as the management of contaminated soils and residual materials. His private and public clients are involved in the following fields of activity: petroleum, real estate, legal, commercial, industrial and governmental. The numerous projects he has carried out to date have allowed him to acquire an in-depth knowledge of environmental regulations as well as the management of contaminated soil and residual materials. He participates in the drafting of financial proposals, reports and technical specifications as well as in the staff training at Englobe Corp.

Armand Des Rosiers
Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets Real Estate Group

Armand Des Rosiers is a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, he is responsible for the overall activities of RBC Capital Markets Real Estate Group’s Montréal office. As the largest real estate investment banking group in Canada, the firm provides a full array of real estate debt and equity intermediary services, including property brokerage, debt brokerage, equity and debt capital markets, corporate banking, M&A and advisory. Throughout his career, Armand has been involved in the most significant commercial real estate sale and financing transactions in Québec.

He holds a Bachelor in Civil Law from McGill University and was called to the Québec Bar in 1978. He also obtained an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University in 1982.

Armand is a member of the McGill Council on Palliative Care and sits on the Board of Directors of Scleroderma Québec and the McCord Museum Foundation.

Jean-Philippe Le Guerrier
CPA, CA, Chief Financial Officer, Les Entreprises QMD Inc.

After 4 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a special auditor in the construction industry, Jean-Philippe continued his career with Colas Canada (a member of the Bouygues group) as a financial director. This position allowed him to acquire an unparalleled experience in large-scale projects as well as experience in projects outside Canada.

In 2015, Jean-Philippe joined QMD Enterprises as financial director. His expertise and determination allowed him to climb the ladder and he was promoted to Chief Financial Officer within the company in 2018. Working closely with the President, Jean-Philippe drives the financial strategies in the real estate sector.

Guillaume Jacob
Senior Associate, CBRE National Investment Team

Guillaume Jacob is a Senior Associate with CBRE Montréal’s National Investment Team, specializing on client advisory services for the acquisition and disposition of industrial investment properties and urban land/development assets. Guillaume’s key strengths include asset underwriting, transaction negotiation, and execution. In his industry tenure, Guillaume has completed over $2.5 billion in real estate transactions across the Province of Québec, which includes record-breaking industrial and land dispositions in the province’s history.

Andréanne Lavallée
Senior Managing Director, Valuation and Advisory Services, CBRE

Andréanne Lavallée has over 24 years of commercial real estate experience in property management, brokerage and real estate consulting. She has evaluated large real estate portfolios and smaller properties from all asset classes throughout Quebec.

Her clients include local and international investors, developers and institutional owners. In addition to her valuation work, she is a columnist for the Real Estate Bulletin and a guest panellist at various real estate conferences and competitions. She is a member of the review committee for the Ecological Gifts Program for the Department of the Environment and Climate Change Canada. Finally, she is a member of the advisory committee of the Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate.

Ms. Lavallée is a member of the Ordre des évaluateurs agréés du Québec, the Institut canadien des évaluateurs and the Organisme d'autorégulation du courtage immobilier du Québec.

Andrée Roy
Regional Director & Team head - Real Estate financing – Otéra Capital | Caisse de placement et dépôt du Québec

Andrée Roy started her career with Sun Life's Mortgage Investment Group before joining the mezzanine financing team at Cadim, a Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec’s subsidiary. After a four-year stint with Royal Bank’s CMBS and commercial mortgage teams, she returned to the Caisse in late 2006.

Her expertise covers a variety of financings including conventional mortgages, CMBS loans, interim/construction, structured and mezzanine loans as well as the purchase of subordinated CMBS tranches, both in Canada and the United States.

Valuing the importance of giving back, Andrée volunteered for IDU Quebec and CREWM for several years.

Michel Deslauriers
Director, Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate
Lecturer, Finance

Michel Deslauriers is Director of the Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate and a full-time lecturer in the Finance Department of the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. Mr. Deslauriers also acts as a strategic advisor to several real estate development companies in Montreal. Before joining Concordia in 2019, he spent ten years as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer at Otéra Capital Inc., a commercial real estate financing subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Prior to his appointment at Otéra, he successively held the positions of Director of Finance and Treasury and Vice-President of Finance at Ivanhoé Cambridge. Mr. Deslauriers also held various positions at Asea Brown Boveri and KPMG-Peat Marwick Thorne. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University and a Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at McGill University. Mr. Deslauriers is a member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.

Roger Plamondon
President, Real Estate Group, Broccolini

A highly regarded executive with an impressive career, Roger Plamondon joined the Broccolini team in 2006, bringing with him 40 years of experience in real-estate and development. Roger has a strong background in executive roles, notably as Regional VP Operations of a major international retail chain where he led the company’s operations for all of Eastern Canada, overseeing more than 100 big-box retail stores from Windsor, Ontario to Saint John’s, Newfoundland. Prior to that, as Assistant VP of Development and Legal Affairs for another major international retail chain, Roger directed legal services and risk management, represented the company in government relations, and established the real estate development plan.

Throughout his distinguished career, Roger has also served as a member of many Boards of Directors and has held executive positions in a number of prominent organizations, including as Director for the Business Development Bank of Canada and for the Retail Council of Canada, as well as Treasurer and Interim CEO for the Montreal Board of Trade, and Chairman of the Retail Council of Quebec.

A respected conference speaker and the author of multiple articles in industry publications, Roger is also a former lecturer for the CEGEP Montmorency College where he led courses in real estate mathematics and property assessment.

Today, as President—Real Estate Group at Broccolini, Roger skillfully heads the department and plays a crucial role in securing property, negotiating contracts, and developing assets. Roger also volunteers much of his time to several of charitable and social organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, KaBOOM!, and the Fondation Lina Cyr, as well as serving as Chairman of the C.L.S.C. Saint-Henri and as Chairman of the Club Richelieu de Ville-Émard.

Roger holds an MBA in finance from Université de Montréal and a Bachelor of Commerce in Real Estate from Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also a graduate of the Accelerated Leadership program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Laurence Vincent
Co-president, Prével

Laurence Vincent is co-president of Prével, a family business with more than 100 employees founded more than 40 years ago. Over the past 15 years, she has been actively involved in the construction of several of Prével's 11,000 housing units and in the development of projects that have made their mark on the Montreal landscape. In March 2019, Prével was awarded the APCHQ's Builder of the Year prize.

Recognized for her contribution to urban development, built heritage and home ownership, Laurence Vincent is committed to creating environments that encourage human interaction and family retention in the downtown core.  She sits on the boards of directors of the public interest organization Vivre en Ville and the Institut de développement urbain du Québec, and chairs the housing committee. Laurence also chairs the Metropolitan and Urban Affairs Committee of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.