Yasmine Bentourkia

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Yasmine has worked on complex data breaches involving ransomware attacks, e-mail business compromise incidents and social engineering frauds. Yasmine also provides legal advice and assistance to international law firms in incidents with a Canadian impact.

Led by a deep interest for science and technology, Yasmine had a contractual practice in the medical/pharmaceutical field prior to joining Clyde & Co.

During her studies, Yasmine participated in the National Laskin Moot Competition, a bilingual moot concentrating on constitutional and administrative law, and she was selected among the top 20 oralists. Yasmine was also awarded the Faculty Scholarship at the Université de Sherbrooke as a student who distinguished herself by the excellence of her academic results in addition to her activities.

Yasmine enjoys painting in her spare time.

Education

• Bachelor in law, L.L.B. Université de Sherbrooke (2014-2018)
• Master in biology, M.S.V.D., Université de Sherbrooke (2014-2018)
• École du Barreau Formation Professionnelle (2018)
• Certificate in IP Licensing at Osgoode Hall Law School (2020)

Memberships

• Barreau du Québec (Bar of Québec) since 2019