As General Counsel for Global Premier America Regional Center, Mr. Labbe is responsible for providing legal representation and counsel in all areas of law affecting GPARC. Mr. Labbe has 24 years of experience and spent 5 years as an attorney with Fasken Martineau, one of the Canada’s leading national law firms, where he represented clients such as the Royal Trust Company, Pepsi-Cola and World Wildlife Fund.
Mr. Labbe also served on the Firm’s Canada-US Trade Law Committee and was sponsored by the firm to write the New York Bar examination in 1987. Mr. Labbe is highly specialized in the field of finance.
He was a co-founding member of Ditech as Lead Attorney, which was a US nationwide lending firm and he was an integral part to Ditech’s growth into 43 states, prior to its acquisition by GMAC. Mr. Labbe holds two law degrees from McGill University (Montreal Canada), a Bachelors in Civil Law and in Common Law.
Prior to McGill Law School, he was Valedictorian at St. Lawrence College (Quebec, Canada), and received bar admissions into Quebec, New York and California. He is also a licensed Broker with the California Bureau of Real Estate.