Anne-Sophie Godbout is a lawyer within the Corporate/Commercial and Emerging Technology teams in our Québec City office. As part of her practice, Anne-Sophie advises clients on their various complex commercial issues.
More specifically, she has acquired extensive experience in the field of financial and blockchain technologies, as well as in the emerging technology industry. Anne-Sophie has contributed to the book Comment la chaîne de blocs va transformer le droit? and wrote her master’s thesis on the legal nature of the tokens issued through the blockchain. Moreover, her recent publications focus on the application of the Québec legal regime to digital assets and the blockchain, and on corporate governance.
Anne-Sophie also works closely with the Chaire de recherche sur les contrats intelligents et la chaîne de blocs (Research Chair in Smart Contracts and Blockchain) at Université Laval. In 2021 and 2022, she was a lecturer - related tasks for the Nanoprogram on blockchain at Laval University and she regularly provides training and lectures in order to democratize the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem and contribute to a better understanding of the legal framework related to it.
Before joining Fasken, Anne-Sophie articled in a boutique firm providing advice in business law, and previously worked for a large law firm in Québec City for several years.
