Angéline Fournier

Angéline Fournier is a Montréal and Paris-based International Business Lawyer, Negotiator, Chartered Mediator and ADR trainer with the Stitt Feld Handy Group.

She consults and negotiates for investors, businesses and governments in fields such as commercial transactions, business relations, economic development and ADR.  She has developed a specialization with investors and businesses to and from Canada-France-MENA.

Angéline is a member of the International Bar Association and a member of the Bar of Paris.  She holds a Master of Corporate Law of Paris V (France) and a Master of Comparative Law from McGill University.  She received training in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers with Roger Fisher and  Frank Sander.  She started her career as a lawyer at S.G. Archibald in Paris and then practiced with Stikeman, Elliott LLP in Montreal.  She is now Director of the International Section of Law & Innovation (Paris) and President of Maeva ADR & Inv. (Montréal).

She is President of the International Section of the Board of Directors of IMAQ (a branch of the ADR Institute of Canada) and is a member of the KPMG Arbitrator and Mediator Roster List.  She is regularly invited to participate and speak at conferences.

Angéline negotiates and mediates disputes internationally in numerous contexts for investors, businesses and governments.

Through her work and philanthropy, she aims to advance the cause of peace, cooperation and development in the world.  With Mediterranean partners, she is co-founder and International Director of ARTS Global, a non-profit Association based in Paris (with offices in Cairo), aiming at establishing a bridge across boundaries, societies and nations.  The association’s aim is to contribute to a better world and a better life by promoting and fostering harmony, understanding, and peace, along with a just and equitable development.

Angéline is also a member of the Canadian Steering Committee of the New School of Athens (Global Governance Group), an international NGO with a mandate to improve governance.  She has been a board member of various organizations  and has worked with Professor John Humphrey, a Human Rights specialist, on negotiating hostage release.

She conducts her practice both in French and in English.