Joe practises commercial litigation and arbitration. He has represented both public and private companies in a range of industries, including mining, infrastructure, utilities, financial services, and technology.

Joe is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer and has argued before all levels of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

He is National co-leader of the Firm’s Arbitration Group. He regularly advises on domestic and international arbitrations as counsel and is available for appointment as arbitrator. He is a member of the ICC Canadian Arbitration Committee, the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Panel of Arbitrators and the Domestic and International Arbitration Panels of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC).

• Appointed to three member panel under ICC Arbitration Rules involving a dispute over a breached settlement agreement between Canadian and American companies
• Appointed to three member panel under ICC Arbitration Rules involving a $70 million claim for energy infrastructure between Spanish and American parties
• Appointed sole arbitrator in international arbitration involving an intellectual property dispute between Chinese and North American parties
• Appointed sole arbitrator in VanIAC involving a dispute over mining interests in Ecuador
• Appointed to three member arbitration panel regarding agency dispute
• Appointed sole arbitrator in ad hoc arbitration involving a franchise dispute
• Appointed sole arbitrator in VanIAC share valuation dispute
• Appointed sole arbitrator in a number of ICDR commercial contract disputes
• Appointed to three member arbitration panel regarding dispute over South American mining concession

Counsel Work

• Counsel in lengthy arbitration involving the construction of significant energy infrastructure
• Counsel in arbitration regarding dispute over operation of municipal infrastructure
• Counsel in arbitration regarding public-private-partnership infrastructure financial arrangements
• Counsel in arbitration involving the operation of energy infrastructure
• Counsel to Aon Hewitt in dispute regarding funding of public sector long term disability trust
• Counsel to Suncor Energy Marketing Inc. in a dispute with Suncor’s terminal operator
• Counsel to CHC Helicopters in an arbitration over the purported termination of Hibernia helicopter contract
• Counsel to FinancialCAD Corporation in a dispute regarding the inadvertent triggering of shareholder dissent rights in FinancialCAD as a result of an error by FinancialCAD’s corporate solicitors
• Counsel to NovaGold Resources Inc. in the appraisal of dissenting shareholder’s shares in the first reported case to consider B.C. Business Corporation Act dissent provisions
• Counsel to Ermineskin Cree Nation in a lengthy Federal Court trial and before the Supreme Court of Canada alleging breach of a trustee’s duty to prudently invest over C$1-billion in trust funds and to prudently manage oil and gas resources

• Member of Bar of British Columbia, 1995 to date
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member, ICDR Panel of Arbitrators
• Member, LCIA North America Users Council
• Member, Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society

B.A. (Political Science), Carleton University – 1991
LL.B., University of Toronto – 1994