PHILIPPE LETTE

Philippe Lette is registered with the Paris and Quebec Bars and as a European Lawyer in England.

After completing high school at the Stanislas College in Montreal, Philippe Lette was admitted at the McGill University Faculty of Law at the age of 17, and simultaneously at the Faculty of Law of Bordeaux in France.

He qualified for doctoral thesis by obtaining the Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures de Droit Privé Comparé at the University of Paris Panthéon‑Sorbonne. After completing three cycles of comparative law in Montreal, Amsterdam and Turin, he obtained an LLM from the International Faculty of Comparative Law.

He is a former President of the France‑Canada Chamber of Commerce and counsel to the embassies of Canada and Switzerland in Paris. Philippe Lette was also member of the Canadian Committee at the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC.

Philippe Lette has been a lecturer and guest professor of law and taxation in the following universities :

•  Sciences Po, Paris: Maître de Conférences (International law and taxation)
• University of Florida, College of Law: guest lecturer in comparative law
• McGill University, Faculty of Law: guest lecturer, Meredith Memorial Lectures.

He received the honorary title of "Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite" in 1990 by the French government and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in December 2022, the highest civil honor in Canada, by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, for the excellence of his career in commercial and business law and his contribution to Canada and to Canadians.

Philippe Lette resides in London and is a true sports enthusiast. He practices golf, scuba diving, squash, tennis and padel. Above all, he enjoys mountain life and spending time in Chamonix. He has been on numerous cross‑country skiing trips which has taken him to Norway and Iran. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and went rafting down the legendary Alsek‑Tatshenshini river. He has a keen interest for modern, contemporary and primitive art (Africa, Oceania, Americas).