Marc Belliveau

Partner

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

Making a difference.

Working with clients on a broad range of issues, Marc delivers business-oriented legal advice and pragmatic solutions in the most efficient means available. His clients appreciate his first-class quality of work, sense of humour, promptness and business background.

Representative matters

Marc’s clients typically have commercial or regulatory challenges that require creative solutions, contextualized for their particular circumstances. He provides reliable road maps to help his clients get to where they want to be. Marc’s clients include:
  • Securities issuers and publicly listed companies
  • Underwriters, agents and dealers
  • Agents and dealers
  • Law firms
  • IT companies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Artists and musicians
  • Academics and professionals

Areas of practice

  • Intellectual Property and Technology
  • Trade-marks
  • Copyright
  • Corporate/Commercial
  • Securities/Corporate Finance
  • Media and Entertainment

BAR ADMISSION(S)

New Brunswick, 1996
Nova Scotia, 1991

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Association des juristes d’expression française du Nouveau-Brunswick
Association des juristes d’expression française de la Nouvelle-Écosse

EDUCATION

Dalhousie University, LL.B., 1990
McGill University, M.B.A., 1982
Dalhousie University, B.Sc., 1980
Lower Canada College, 1977

ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Director, Project 501, Stewart McKelvey’s Rock Band
  • Trade-mark agent, Canada
  • Associate, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
  • Lecturer, Intellectual Property Law, 1996-2010
  • Member, Chambre de Commerce Francophone de Halifax
  • Member, Music Nova Scotia
  • Lead organizer, March of Dimes Canada: Annual Battle of Corporate Bands in Halifax (raising funds for children with disabilities), 2006-present

LANGUAGE(S)

English, French

MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS

BV

EXTERNAL RATINGS

  • Best Lawyers, Securities Law, 2011-2012

Publications

  • "Olympic Trade-marks: An Update” Commercial Times (CCH, No. 505, August 2009)
  • “Protecting Your Products and Brands” (CCCA 2008 National Spring Conference)
  • “Protecting the Brand: Trade-mark Basics” (CBA-NS 2006 Small Business Conference)
  • “The Trade-marks Act: an overview” (Nova Scotia Law News, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1997)
  • “Advising on Trade-mark Issues” (CLE-NS, 1997)
  • “Disclosure of Discovery Information and the Principle of Implied Undertaking in Nova Scotia” (Nova Scotia Law News, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1992)

Numerous articles case comments on Intellectual Property and Securities Law for Stewart McKelvey’s Atlantic Business Counsel.

Presentations

  • Lecturer, Intellectual Property and Internet Law Seminars, Canadian Bar Association – Nova Scotia, 1996-2008
  • Moderator, “Judicial Review in Canada”, Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, 2009

Suite 900
Purdy's Wharf Tower One
1959 Upper Water Street
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3J 3N2

P 902.420.3343
F 902.420.1417

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LEGAL ASSISTANT(S)

Joanne O'Brien

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