Who are we ?

Our Promise

ENTREPRENEUR

As entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand your reality: we know how to make legal services more suitable for you.

QUALITY

We work with lawyers dedicated to entrepreneurship and who have been members of the Bar for many years to guarantee you the best possible service.

SIMPLICITY

Why did we create Lex Start?

Discover why we chose to help entrepreneurs

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Flat rate legal services for entrepreneurs

Our Team

Gilles de Saint Exupéry

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER

Member of the Quebec Bar, Gilles specializes in information technology law. A 2.0 kind of lawyer, he is passionate about legal technology and teaches Internet law at the Polytechnique de Montreal and the University of Sherbrooke.

John-Robert Kelly

LAWYER AND CO-FOUNDER

Corporate lawyer and partner at Lex Start avocats, John Robert is the President of our Board of Directors. As a member of the Quebec Bar, the Ontario Bar, and the Paris Bar, John Robert’s expertise goes beyond borders. Fortunately, his proximity allows us to benefit from a wealth of strategic advice.

Zoé Barral

LAWYER AND HEAD OF CUSTOMER CARE

Graduated with a Masters degree in international business law, Zoé is particularly interested in law and economics, innovation and entrepreneurship. This is why she decided to join our team at Lex Start!

Isaël Morin

MARKETING & COMMUNICATION MANAGER

Passionate about social media and video production, Isaël has already documented the life of more than 50 entrepreneurs through his camera. He now joins our team to communicate our mission in the best way possible.

Christelle Gaussuron-Lopez

HEAD OF THE PRODUCT DEPARTMENT

Holder of a Master 2 in intellectual property law and an MBA in business management, Christelle has been assisting legal professionals for more than 10 years on issues of digital transformation. She works to optimize the Lex Start user experience, to define the offer and to develop and maintain partnerships.

Rémi Vincent

CTO

Rémi holds a MSc in Computer Science and another one in Artificial Intelligence. By joining the team, his wish is to put technology at the service of the legal field. Being himself an entrepreneur, he has experienced the difficulty of finding suitable legal solutions and wants to solve this problem once and for all through Lex Start.

Andra Liciu

CUSTOMER MANAGER

A third-year student at the Université de Montréal, Andra is particularlyinterested in business law, insurance law and labour law. She has worked as a volunteer for the Concordia Legal Clinic and has had the opportunity to be part of the ProBono project with the Young Bar Association of Montreal. Today she is part of the Lex Start team and she is eager to help new entrepreneurs.

Pablo Mourente

BUSINESS ADVISOR

Born in Brazil and partner of David e Athayde Advogados, a business law firm in that country, he obtained there a LLM in Business Law and currently attends his Canadian Law equivalence studies at Université de Montréal. Fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish, he has the best profile to introduce Lex Start to the Brazilian and lusophone communities in Canada.

Viktor Boyer

LEGAL EDITOR

Viktor holds a Master 2 degree in Comparative Business Law and is admitted to the CRFPA exam. He is also passionate about the digitalization of the practice of business law. Specialized in the development of automation processes, Viktor joined the Lex Start team in order to assist them in the development of their legal products.

Beatriz Roque Rizzo

CUSTOMER MANAGER

Law student in Brazil and working as an intern in the Law firm David e Athayde Advogados, Beatriz speaks portuguese, english and french. Since the beginning of her studies, she is interested in tax Law and civil law. With Pablo Mourente, our business advisor, she helps with Lex Start’s expansion in Brazil

Hamed Tijane Mkpoumie Monfouayi

FRONT END WEB DEVELOPER

A future graduate of Collège Rosemont in web and mobile application development, Hamed is also a budding entrepreneur with a passion for innovative challenges. He joined the Lex Start team because he shares its values, but also with the goal of deploying his talents by improving the user experience on the website.

Virginie Lemieux

COMMUNICATION OFFICER

A graduate of the Université de Montréal with a bachelor’s degree in screenwriting and creative writing, Virginie is an true lover of words and their different dimensions. She joined Lex Start with the mission to communicate, with her own and original way of writing, our values and our projects on our multiple social media platforms.

Fady Zadah

CUSTOMER MANAGER

As a current Law intern for the Barreau du Québec, Fady takes interest in many fields of law such as business law, intellectual property law and consumer law. He joined Lex Start’s ranks to implement his perks and contribute to the efforts of a dynamic and forward-thinking team in the entrepreneurial world.

Paola Lafrance

CUSTOMER MANAGER

Law intern from the Barreau du Québec, Paola is passionate about business law, intellectual property law and more specifically entrepreneurship, since she is an entrepreneur herself. She speaks fluent french, spanish and english. Sharing Lex Start’s values and determined to help entrepreneurs, she joined the team to follow her passions.

Mariana Yanase Barbosa

SUPPORT AGENT

Studying Law in Brazil and working as a legal intern in the Law firm David e Athayde Advogados, Mariana has always been interested in international law and business law. She speaks English, Portuguese and French. As a support agent, she deals with administrative procedures and the production of legal documents.

Advisory Committee

Vincent Gautrais

The director of the University of Montreal’s Research Center in Public Law, a professor at the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Law and holder of the Chair L.R. Wilson on information technology and electronic commerce law, Vincent needs no introduction.

Margaux de Saint-Exupéry

Manager at Accuracy France

Jean Loup P. G. Le Roux

STRATEGIC PARTNER

As a seasoned entrepreneur, Jean Loup is helping LexStart explore new business opportunities and build partnerships. Mr Le Roux is the founder of the Canadian Consulting Community.