Armand Conant, B.Eng., LL.B., D.E.S.S. (Sorbonne)

Armand heads up the condominium law department of the full service law firm of Shibley Righton LLP and represents numerous condominium corporations across central Ontario.

Armand resides in Toronto, is Past-President of the Canadian Condominium Institute (Toronto), where he also serves on the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Legislative Committee which has completed and submitted an extensive legislative brief to the Ontario government with recommendations for changes to the Condominium Act, 1998. Armand is also a member of the joint ACMO and CCI (Toronto) Government Relations Committee and a member of CCI National’s Government Relations Committee and he assembled the 2nd Edition of the CCI National publication “Canadian Condominium Legislation – A Coast to Coast Comparison”, which is a comparison of condominium legislation from every jurisdiction across Canada. In addition, Armand is a member of the Discipline Committee for the Association of Condominium Managers of Ontario (“ACMO”).

Armand has written articles for such publications as ACMO’s “CM Condominium MANAGER”, CCI (Toronto)’s “thecondovoice”, “Humber Happenings”, the “Condominium Law Letter”, “Canadian Real Estate” and the “Real Estate News”. He has also lectured before the ACMO, CCI’s Directors’ courses, and at Humber College on various aspects of condominium law, along with presenting at various condominium conferences, including the Annual ACMO/CCI Conference and the Toronto Condo Show and has appeared on television shows to discuss condominiums.

Armand also is the first lawyer in Ontario to be a court appointed full Administrator (appointed under the Condominium Act, 1998), to take over all the duties of a Board of Directors of, and run, troubled corporations.

Armand combines his legal education and engineering degree with the hands on experience of having been on the steering committee and then board of directors of a 276 unit condominium corporation for over 5 years. He has extensive condominium, real estate, litigation and business law experience. Having received a Masters of Law degree from the Sorbonne (France), Armand is also bilingual.