Elena Sophie Drouin is an associate in the firm’s Business Group in Québec City. As part of her practice, she assists clients on a range of regulatory, compliance and government-relation matters, including in the fields of infrastructure, energy, land-use planning, and public tenders. She also maintains a general practice in several industries and areas of business law, such as mergers and acquisitions, transactional and corporate services.

As part of her regulatory practice, she notably advises landowners, developers and energy producers, from the initial design of their projects, to their approval by local or regional municipalities and governments, as well as with setting up their governance or project structure, obtaining permits and other authorizations, or defending their rights in regulatory or expropriation proceedings. She also has experience in public consultation procedures, farm land regulation and applications before the CPTAQ, guiding clients with meeting public tendering requirements, and advising on accessibility, building norms compliance, and providing support for civil, administrative, penal and criminal proceedings involving regulatory issues.

Elena holds BCL/JD degrees from McGill University’s Faculty of Law. During her studies, she received the Stephen A. Scott in Constitutional Law and the Gary Naschen Prizes, served as Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal, and completed a student clerkship at the Superior Court of Québec. Elena holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Université Laval, with coursework completed at King’s College London.

Elena was called to the Quebec bar in 2021. She is a member of the Quebec Bar and the Canadian Bar Association.