Daniel Desjardins
Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Bombardier Inc. - Corporate Office

 
 
 
Mr. Desjardins has been Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Bombardier Inc. since October 1st, 2003, and is a member of the Management Committee and of the Corporate Council of the Corporation. He was previously Vice President - Legal Services. Before joining Bombardier, from February 1986 to April 1998, Mr. Desjardins was a senior partner of Hudon Gendron Harris Thomson, where he was practising in the field of corporate, banking and real estate law. Mr. Desjardins was presented in New York in June 2007 with the General Counsel of the Year award by the International Law Office, Global Counsel Awards and the Association of Corporate Counsel. He obtained his LLL (1977) from the Université de Montréal and his LLM (1983) from McGill University.

Year Called to the Bar:1978

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