Headquarters:

Place du Canada, 1010 Rue de la Gauchetière Ouest, Suite 950, Montréal, Québec H3B 2N2

Year founded:

1986

Number of employees:

Phone:

514 448 5980

Email:

greffe@ccac-adr.org

Website:

ccac-adr.org

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/centre-canadien-d'arbitrage-commercial

Michel A. Jeanniot

President

Rinaldo Huriptyo

Head of Canada, International Segment

Christine Montgomery

Vice President, Family Law

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Michel A. Jeanniot is president of the CCAC and managing partner of JEANNIOT, a boutique law firm in Montréal. With approximately 40 years of experience in Québec civil and commercial law, he has served as a commercial arbitrator for about 20 years and has issued more than 285 arbitral awards. An accredited arbitrator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), he has managed CAMVAP in Québec for nearly two decades. He also holds federal CanDAC accreditation for real estate arbitration across Canada and is accredited as a third-party decision-maker under Québec’s construction prompt-payment regime. A graduate of UQAM, Jeanniot is also active in philanthropy through the Fondation Jeanniot.

President

Michel A. Jeanniot

Rinaldo Huriptyo is the head of Canada at Thomson Reuters, where he oversees go-to-market strategy and operations across all segments, including legal, government, corporates, and tax and accounting professionals. Before joining Thomson Reuters, he spent most of his career leading high-growth software-as-a-service go-to-market teams in the cybersecurity, communications middleware, and customer experience industries. Huriptyo lives in Toronto with his family and actively volunteers with his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis, serving as an ambassador and advocate for students.

Head of Canada, International Segment

Rinaldo Huriptyo

Christine Montgomery brings extensive family law experience to her role as vice president of family law at DivorceMate. She oversees family law content and educates legal professionals and members of the judiciary about the complexities of the company’s software. She earned her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto and was called to the Bar in 1992. After initially practising civil and commercial litigation, she focused exclusively on family law for several years. She joined DivorceMate in January 2005, contributing to the development of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) calculator. Outside work, Montgomery enjoys adventure travel, hiking, reading, writing, painting, and spending time with her family, especially at the cottage.

Vice President, Family Law

Christine Montgomery

Brian Duong

Partner

Brian Duong practises in the areas of civil litigation and administrative law. He has appeared as both trial and appellate counsel, including in a number of cases of public interest. He has successfully managed a wide range of complex cases, including contract and shareholder disputes, property matters, franchise litigation, breach of confidence actions, and constitutional claims. Duong holds law degrees from both the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge and has gained experience practising law in the United States and Europe.

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Brian Duong

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The Canadian Commercial Arbitration Centre (CCAC), or Centre canadien d’arbitrage commercial, is Québec’s only not-for-profit arbitration centre. It promotes and facilitates dispute resolution outside the courts, without charging the parties administrative fees. Headquartered in Montréal, with an office in Québec City, the Centre administers international and domestic commercial arbitration, as well as commercial conciliation and mediation, under its own rules. The CCAC is an authorized arbitration body under Québec’s guarantee plan for new residential buildings. It also administers several specialized programs: the Canadian Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan (CAMVAP) in Québec; an arbitration procedure for disputes between Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) members and their clients; and the arbitration program under the national agreement between Québec’s Ministry of Health and Social Services and the ARIHQ. The Centre’s role is administrative: it ensures that its rules are applied so that parties can achieve a fair and efficient resolution of their disputes. In 2026, the CCAC was named in Canadian Lawyer’s Readers’ Choice.

CCAC Registry Team Case Administration The CCAC registry is staffed year-round by top-tier law students: a second-year student, a third-year student, and an articling student completing the Barreau du Québec’s articling term. Working on a rotating schedule, each cohort trains the next, ensuring continuity, cohesion and the transfer of institutional knowledge from year to year. The team ensures that every case file is received on time, opened and processed promptly, and that parties and arbitrators receive support at every stage of the proceedings.

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Featured on the photo from left to right: Michel A. Jeanniot CIArb, Élizabeth Jetté , Chloé Mainville , and Anahita Asgari