Antoine Martin

Antoine Martin is a seasoned lawyer with advanced expertise in construction and infrastructure law. He has been involved in numerous public infrastructure projects, especially projects delivered through design-build, design-build-finance and public-private partnership models, and more recently, projects implementing new collaborative approaches. His extensive experience and skills as both legal counsel and business advisor make him a trusted partner for his clients, supporting them from the earliest stages of a project through to its completion.

Antoine also has significant experience in business law. Having worked both in-house and in private practice, he combines legal expertise with strong business acumen to provide legal services tailored to a wide range of client needs. These include reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts for various commercial operations, implementing business mergers and acquisitions, securing private equity or debt financing, corporate restructuring, shareholder agreements, due diligence reviews, and more.

He also has unique experience in charity law, having held positions early in his career in both the Registration Applications Review Section and the Audit Section of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Charities Directorate.

Antoine Martin previously served as Legal Counsel at the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI). In this role, he contributed to both the development and execution of major infrastructure projects undertaken by key institutions in Québec, including the Montréal university hospitals (CHUM, MUHC, and CHU Sainte-Justine), the AMT (now EXO), and Place Bell. He was primarily responsible for managing the contractor selection process for infrastructure projects carried out by government ministries and public bodies — from the request for qualifications through to financial close — overseeing contract drafting, negotiation and execution as well as supporting these entities throughout the project delivery phase.

At Quad Graphics (formerly Quebecor World, then Worldcolor), Antoine represented the company in drafting and negotiating printing contracts with its largest U.S. clients, as well as complex agreements governing the global supply of ink and printing plates. He also led two failed attempts and the eventual successful sale of the company’s European operations and played a key role in Quebecor World’s court-supervised restructuring.

Earlier in his career, Antoine served as Legal Counsel at Axcan Pharma, where he was involved in drafting and negotiating contracts across various business areas, including raw material procurement, subcontract manufacturing and clinical research services.

Throughout his career, Antoine Martin has practiced as a sole practitioner as well as with several law firms, including Sarrazin Plourde, Léger Robic Richard, and Coudert Frères.

As a sole practitioner specializing in public infrastructure projects, he provided legal and operational support to the CHUM during Phase 2 of its construction and the early operational phase of Phase 1 under a public-private partnership. He also advised the CRCHUM on various matters related to the operational phase of its public-private partnership agreement.

At Sarrazin Plourde, Antoine acted as legal counsel for numerous clients in a wide range of commercial transactions. Among the major infrastructure projects he led with his legal team was the support provided to the Parc olympique in selecting the contractor responsible for the design, construction, and partial maintenance of the Olympic Stadium’s technical ring and roof. His team played a key role in the tendering process, risk analysis, contract drafting, negotiation, and finalization. His services also included training stakeholders from various departments of the Parc olympique on the contract’s terms and conditions, as well as providing them ongoing legal and operational support throughout the project’s execution.

While at Léger Robic Richard and Coudert Frères, Antoine represented several clients in commercial transactions, business mergers and acquisitions, and financing matters. He also advised venture capital funds in the execution of their investment transactions.

Over the course of his career, Antoine has contributed to numerous large-scale infrastructure projects, including:

• Legal support to the Parc olympique throughout the entire contractor selection process for the design, construction, and partial maintenance of the new technical ring and roof of the Olympic Stadium —from the request for qualifications to the request for proposal. This included drafting, negotiating, and finalizing the project agreement, which was delivered using a collaborative approach closely aligned with Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). (Estimated value: $870 million)
• Legal support to the CHUM for Phase 2 of construction and the initial operation of Phase 1 under a public-private partnership model. ($450 million)
• Expansion (design-build-finance) of CHU Sainte-Justine. ($450 million)
• Delivery (design-build-finance) of the AMT’s new commuter train maintenance centre in Lachine. ($80 million)
• Financial close of the public-private partnership for the construction of a new detention facility in Sorel-Tracy. ($200 million)
• Design-build delivery of Place Bell in Laval. ($150 million)
• Public-private partnership delivery of the AMT’s new commuter train maintenance centre in Pointe-Saint-Charles. (Estimated value: $210 million)
• Oversight of the execution of public-private partnership agreements for the MUHC, CRCHUM, and the Sorel-Tracy detention facility (on behalf of the SQI).