2010 – Me Rita de Santis

Mtre. de Santis was an associate member of the firm Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineburg, a firm specializing in corporate and commercial law, commercial real estate, corporate finance and securities and public-private partnerships. She specializes in international law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate law and project finance.

· Mtre Rita DeSantis has assisted corporations and government and quasi-government entities on projects as diverse as the establishment of telecommunications joint ventures in China, real estate investment in Poland, the acquisition of newspapers in Canada, and state funding. -United. She also accompanied clients on trade missions to Africa and advised the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group on the establishment of a mortgage system in Palestine, a project involving the Palestinian government authorities.

· McGill University, B.C.L., 1981 (scholar)

· McGill University, B.Sc., with honors specialisation in 1976 in biochemistry

· HER PRIZES AND MENTIONS

· Named one of the top one hundred (100) most Influential Canadian Women in 2009 by the Network of Executive Women. Her name appears in The Best Lawyers in Canada directory in the area of ​​project finance Recognized in the Canadian legal directory expert® as a lawyer whose services are regularly recommended in areas of property development of average sized companies. Mtre Rita DeSantis received one of the highest honors awarded by Martindale Hubbell.

· Mtre. De Santis has made presentations at various conferences, notably in 2010 How to get in the chair on Access for women to company boards presented by the Barreau de Montréal and on Choose the most favorable law taking into account your options in terms of dispute resolution and knowing how to get out of conflict situations presented by the Canadian Institute; in 2008, in an interactice round table on project financing at the Quebec Forum on PPP and Infrastructure Financing, in 2006, on funding available for public-private partnerships at a conference organized in Montreal by lnsight; in 2005, Setting up Business Abroad: Let Us Go China on setting up a business in China as part of the Isaac Pitblado lecture series, in Winnipeg; and in February and June 2005, on the distinction between public-private partnerships and other public sector contractual approaches at the Canadian Institute in Montreal.

· In 2012, she was elected member of the National Assembly of Quebec, for the county of Bourassa-Sauvé from 2012 to 2018. Mtre DeSantis held the position of Minister responsible for Access to Information and the Reform of Democratic Institutions from 2016 to 2017.