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Desautels alumnus appointed Managing Partner at major law firm

Published: 2 June 2017
Philippe Johnson (BCom'92) is a newly-minted Managing Partner at the Montreal offices of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg. But he could easily have gone down the business route.
In fact, he did: A love of finance first landed him at Desautels as an undergraduate, then moving on to work for HSBC in Vancouver.
So how did that turn into a law degree and a high-profile job at a key Canadian business law firm?
In a recent Droit-Inc interview, he discusses what makes him tick, what made him switch careers, and what he sees as his biggest challenges to date.