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Le président d'Ogilvy Renault, Yves Fortier, à la tête du conseil d'Alcan dans le cadre de sa fusion avec Rio Tinto, et l'un des arbitres les plus sollicités dans le monde, a récemment accordé une entrevue à The American Lawyer, numéro d'août 2007.

Le reportage intitulé Special Report: Canada de ce magazine décrit le rôle joué par M. Fortier au sein d'un certain nombre de conseils qu'il a présidés au cours de sa carrière, notamment ceux d'Alcan et de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, deux des plus importantes sociétés canadiennes. Il souligne également ses états de service impressionnants à titre d'arbitre international et sa nomination à titre de représentant auprès des Nations Unies par l'ancien premier ministre du Canada et actuel associé principal d'Ogilvy Renault, le très honorable Brian Mulroney.

Le reportage porte également sur le coprésident du cabinet Norm Steinberg et l'associé chef de la direction Pierre Bienvenu.

Extrait (disponible en anglais seulement)

By The American Lawyer's count, he is the most active high-stakes arbitrator in the world. Then there are [Yves] Fortier's law firm duties. Since 1992 he has chaired Montreal's most venerable law firm, Ogilvy Renault.

It's a career hat trick worthy of hockey great Wayne Gretzky. "Fortier has had one of the most successful careers of his generation in Canada," raves Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister who is an Ogilvy senior partner and Fortier's longtime friend. "Yves," says Ogilvy managing partner Pierre Bienvenu, "exemplifies the maxim 'If you want something done, ask the busiest person.'"

He has a reputation for a down-to-earth manner that's borne out when he walks into his interview with The American Lawyer and unfussily helps unscrew the top of a tea jug that had baffled his interviewer and colleagues. Fortier's air of even-tempered humility, combined with formidable experience and intellect, helps explain his success as an arbitrator-and as Canada's ultimate joiner. "He cuts to the heart of the problem," says former International Court of Justice judge Stephen Schwebel, "but in a manner that is not cutting."

Much of Fortier's good fortune derives from his friendship with Mulroney, who has been a lawyer at Ogilvy for most of his life outside politics. Fortier, a 1960 Rhodes Scholar, was already a star associate when Mulroney first joined Ogilvy upon law school graduation in 1964. Before long, Mulroney was cramming for the bar at Fortier's father-in-law's cottage in the Laurentian Mountains outside Montreal. The two young men and their families would spend weekends playing tennis, swimming, and talking Canadian politics. Or, rather, debating politics, with Mulroney taking the Conservative position and Fortier the center-left Liberal line. Both young lawyers combined rhetorical flair with driving ambition, and they joined every organization in sight, starting with their respective ideological parties. Political dabbling could hardly be discouraged at a firm founded by three Tory politicians in 1879, especially when one of them, Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, was elected premier of Quebec that same year.

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