Laure Bonnave

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Laure has a litigation practice in all areas of insurance, including professional liability, directors and officers liability, construction law and defamation. She has pled before Québec lower courts and the Court of Appeal.

Laure also acts as privacy counsel (“breach coach”) in the event of cybersecurity incidents, such as data or privacy breaches. In her practice, Laure has advised clients on multiple cyber incidents, both locally and globally.

In her role, Laure regularly advises clients on the management of cyber incidents, which includes

• overall incident response management and vendor coordination;

• ransomware response and recovery (sanctions, extortion response, compliance risk and threat intelligence);

• data breach assessment and notification (coordination of measures in response to incidents that have impacts across multiple jurisdictions);

• payment misdirection fraud, funds tracing and funds recovery;

• communications strategy and stakeholder management;

• regulatory reporting (dealing with the OPC, OIPA, CAI and other regulators across 50+ jurisdictions);

• third party claims disputes;

• class action risk relating to privacy breaches.

Admissions

• Québec Bar, 2012

Education

• Québec Bar School, 2012

• Master of Laws (LLM), Faculty of Law, McGill University, Québec, Canada, 2009

• Master in Business Law, Faculty of Law, Panthéon-Assas University, France, 2008

• Bachelor and Master in Business Law, Faculty of Law, Jean Moulin University, France, 2007

Professional Associations

• Québec Bar

• Young Bar of Montréal

• Canadian Bar Association

• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

• French Chamber of Commerce in Canada

• Young Philanthropists’ Circle of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts

Presentations

• Breakfast seminar: “Série de déjeuners-conférences de Clyde & Cie : un aperçu d’actions collectives récentes,” presented by Nathalie David, Gabriel Archambault, Laure Bonnave, Ada Wittenberger and Geneviève Boisvert, June 7, 2023

• “Understanding and Responding to Cyber Threats – The Legal Aspects webcast for professional engineers and design consultants,” presented by Nathalie David and Laure Bonnave, October 18, 2022

• Client presentation: “Cybersecurity and Incident Response,” presented by Nathalie David, Laure Bonnave and Yasmine Bentourkia, September 2022

• “Common Pitfalls: How to be prepared to disclose a data breach,” presented by Laure Bonnave, February 15, 2022

• “Que se passerait-il si votre fournisseur de services gérés en TI était victime d’un incident de cybersécurité?” presented by Laure Bonnave, Othmann Layati, Jean-Simon Gervais and Matthieu Chouinard, October 2020

• Client presentation: “Cyber Insurance & Data Privacy – The Current Landscape,” presented by Nathalie David and Laure Bonnave, October 26, 2018

• Breakfast seminar: “Innovation dans le domaine de l’assurance,” presented by Nathalie David, Carolena Gordon, Jo-Anne Demers, Laure Bonnave, Prachi Shah, Arnaud Sauvé-Dagenais, April 26, 2018