Sébastien C. Caron is a founding member of LCM Attorneys Inc. and was the firm’s first managing partner. His practice focuses on litigation, commercial law, securities, and arbitration. Members of the business community turn to him for his ability to find solutions to complex problems. He is also involved in several class action cases and has solid experience in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.
Sébastien regularly acts for financial institutions, including securities brokers and advisors, advising them on the development and application of their compliance policies and representing them before civil courts and regulatory boards.
In 2018, Sébastien was awarded the honorary title of Emeritus Lawyer by the Quebec Bar. He is recognized annually as a leading practitioner in commercial litigation by Chambers Canada (since 2020), Best Lawyers in Canada (2023), Canadian Legal Lexpert (since 2015) and Benchmark Canada (since 2013).
Sébastien is a past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Class Actions Section of the Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Branch, and Vice-Chair of the Quebec Advisory Committee of The Advocates’ Society.
Sébastien is a regular guest lecturer and has taught the Pierre-Basile-Mignault Moot Competition at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law.
In addition to his many activities in the business world, Sébastien is committed to his community and participates in a number of philanthropic activities. He is a director of the Fondation de la Société des Soins Palliatifs à domicile. He has also served as a director of the International Bureau for Children’s Rights and of Lawyers Without Borders Québec.
Dany Guimond-Valcourt is a technology, cybersecurity and privacy lawyer at LCM Avocats in Montréal, known for translating legal frameworks into clear, practical operational guidance.
She advises organizations ranging from SMEs to critical infrastructure operators across the financial services, healthcare, energy, technology and professional services sectors. As breach counsel, she leads crisis management efforts following privacy and cybersecurity incidents, coordinating forensic experts, insurers, regulators and law enforcement across jurisdictions, structuring communications, and driving post-incident improvements to practices and controls.
Her practice includes technology due diligence in M&A transactions, federal and provincial privacy compliance (including Québec's Law 25 and Law 5), cross-border data transfers, AI and biometrics governance, and cyber insurance.
Before joining LCM, she held cybersecurity, data protection and risk governance roles at Desjardins Group, CDPQ and Wolters Kluwer—operational experience that distinguishes her legal practice.
She teaches in graduate programs in computer engineering and in business law and enterprise risk management at Polytechnique Montréal and Université de Sherbrooke. She chairs the Barreau de Montréal's Technology Integration Committee, serves on the executive committee of the Canadian Bar Association's Information Technology, Telecommunications and Intellectual Property Law Section (Québec Branch), and is a member of The Advocates' Society's National AI Task Force.
