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Daar, Jeffery J. | International Arbitration | Los Angeles | CAL (California) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Forty years’ experience as a commercial litigator in both state and federal court as well as international and domestic arbitrations. For past 25 plus years have specialized in international disputes. Experience as a transactional lawyer in drafting complex cross-border agreements. Practice has included a broad range of industries and subject matters, including: International cross-border disputes involving more than 20 countries including antitrust, technology and competition issues, investment disputes, distribution disputes, enforcement of international arbitration awards and foreign money judgments, and jurisdiction and venue disputes. Contract disputes including formation, misrepresentation and fraud in the inducement. Trade secrets and disputes over ownership rights to proprietary information and intellectual property. Employment including discrimination and wages. Employment including discrimination and wages. Class actions including defense and prosecution of consumer, wage and hour, and securities. Professional errors and omissions including lawyer and accountants. Products liability. Trademark and copyright infringement. Shareholder disputes and divorces of businesses. Aviation experience, nonlegal experience as a member of governing body for the Los Angeles World Airports. Was involved with overseeing all aspects of the operations of LAX and Van Nuys (general aviation) airports including approximately $15 billion of modernization projects, airport police, budget, and public private partnerships. |
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Panel Arbitrator with American Arbitration Association and has arbitrated many cases. Has spoken all over the world on international arbitration. |
Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the California Lawyers Association (2020- 2023); Founder and Vice President of California Arbitration, Inc. (2022- .) Co-Chair of California International Arbitration Week (2022, 2023 and 2024); currently organizing the 2025 California International Arbitration Week. Co-Chair of many international arbitration conferences since 2007. Past Chair of the International Law Section of The State Bar of California and of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; Member of the Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association Litigation Section; Trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar; Chair of the Los Angeles Advisory Board of Global Chamber; Chair of the International Trade Committee of the Valley Industry & Commerce Association; Past Chair of International Litigation and Arbitration Specialist Group of Consulegis; Elected Member of the Consulegis Advisor Board. Appointed by three different Mayors of the City of Los Angeles as a City Commissioner and approved each time by the Los Angeles City Council. Currently, President of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. The Ethics Commission is required by law to administer City and state laws relating to campaign financing, governmental ethics, lobbying, and contracts. Previously served on the Board of Airport Commissioners for the Los Angeles World Airports. The seven-member Board is the governing body for the airports. LAX is currently the sixth busiest airport in the world and second busiest in the United States. Previously served as the Chairperson of the City of Los Angeles Rent Adjustment Commission, which is responsible for adopting policies, rules and regulations pertaining to the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance and is the Appeals Board for the City of Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department. Served as a City Commissioner since 2003. Commissioner, Los Angeles Municipal Election Reform Commission. Selected for inclusion in the practice of international law by Super Lawyers® (a division of Thompson Reuters) (2015-) and is rated “AV® Preeminent™” by Martindale-Hubbell. Regularly makes presentations on many different international issues, including recent programs on international arbitration and international litigation strategies, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and international arbitration awards, the Convention on the International Sale of Goods, structuring international transactions, avoiding cultural mishaps, family law across borders, and trade secret disputes, and international trade legal considerations. Publications Executive Editor of the 560-page handbook International Intellectual Property Law Basics
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J.D., University of California, Davis, 1982 |
Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Entertainment, Government, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Labour, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Securities, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation | ||
Akenroye, Dr. Ayodele | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Dr. Ayodele (“Ayo”) Akenroye, FCIArb is an independent commercial arbitrator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also an Immigration Judge with the Government of Canada where he adjudicates immigration matters. Before becoming an Arbitrator and an Immigration Judge, Ayo was an advocate, representing individuals and corporations in a wide range of industries and areas of law including corporate and commercial, banking, construction, energy, finance, infrastructure, insurance, mining, solar power plants, telecommunication, transportation, joint ventures, licensing, patents, sales of goods and shareholdings, ethics and anti-corruption, and criminal litigation (international and domestic). |
Current – Independent Arbitrator (Toronto, London & Lagos) Act as arbitrator in commercial arbitrations under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, AAA/ICDR, CPR, NAI and other sets of rules, as well as in ad hoc arbitration proceedings. Presided as a sole decision maker over Immigration matters at a quasi-judicial Federal Tribunal with exclusive jurisdiction over immigration and refugee matters in Canada. Appointed by the Government of Manitoba, Canada to adjudicate housing disputes, as a panel of one or three, between landlords and tenants at a quasi-judicial Tribunal with appellate jurisdiction over residential tenancy law in the Province of Manitoba, Canada. Ayo brings this experience and knowledge to his work as an international and domestic arbitrator. He renders clear, well-reasoned and appropriately comprehensive decisions expeditiously. His ability to master complex facts and transaction documents provides the foundation for his effectiveness as an arbitrator. One of Ayo’s strengths is that he is trained and has practised law in multiple common law jurisdictions. He holds a law degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, a master’s degree in law from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and a doctorate in public international law from McGill University, Canada. Having practised in Nigeria before qualifying in Canada in 2013, Ayo understands the practical and cultural differences presented in cross-border disputes. Ayo takes great interest in the impact of technology on dispute resolution. He is currently conducting a multi-year study at the Center for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto on the use of videoconferencing technology in Canadian courts and how this technology affects the image of a judge in dispute resolutions. Also, he has trained Nigerian judges and lawyers on the use of technology to conduct hearings. |
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Allen, Graham | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Graham Allen has enjoyed three separate but intersecting professions. He started his career as a Chartered Valuation Surveyor, then enhanced his appraisal qualifications with a M.Sc. in Urban Land Appraisal. He later became a lawyer, practising from 1979 until his retirement from law in 2013. He holds LL.B., J.D. and LL.M. Degrees. Graham has a long relationship with the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia. He first became a professional member in 1972, and served as President from 1978 to 1982. He was honoured to receive the Institute’s 2017 Award of Excellence for “outstanding leadership and contribution within the real estate industry, the community and the broader society.” His sole practice today is as a Chartered Arbitrator, focusing on land valuation disputes, particularly rent reviews and lease renewals. He has worked as an arbitrator and mediator for over 30 years, being involved with over 160 arbitrations and a dozen mediations. |
Graham Allen has served in all capacities in arbitration proceedings during the past 30 years, as counsel, sole arbitrator, nominee and Chairman of the panel. During this period, he has been involved in more than 160 arbitrations, 90% of which were concerned with rental or land valuation disputes. He has also been involved in more than a dozen mediations. Sept. 1973 – Jul. 1978: President, Graham Allen Limited, Land Management Consultants Jul. 1978 – Jul. 1979: Articled Law Student with Shrum, Liddle & Hebenton Aug. 1979 – Mar. 1984: Sole practitioner as W. Graham Allen, Barrister and Solicitor Apr. 1984 – Sept. 1986: Partner in the firm of Gardner, Snarch & Allen Oct. 1986 – Feb. 2006: Partner in the firm of Snarch and Allen Mar. 2006 -Dec. 2013: Associate Counsel, Boughton Law Corporation Jan. 2014 – Current: Retired member of Law Society. Available for mediations and arbitrations. Graham Allen is available for arbitrations and mediations through W. Graham Allen Management Corporation. |
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Allen, Charles William | International Arbitration | Hong Kong | CN (China) | ➽ |
Charles Allen is the head of RPC’s Hong Kong office. His core expertise is commercial litigation and international arbitration. He is admitted in Hong Kong and England, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. |
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Charles is on the arbitrator panels of numerous institutions, including Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Law Society of Hong Kong, eBram (Hong Kong), Asian International Arbitration Centre, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Reserve Panel) and the Mongolian International Arbitration Center. He also sits on the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Hong Kong. He is recognised by leading legal directories, such as Chambers and Asia Pacific Legal 500. Recent accolades include:
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Solicitor, Hong Kong 1995 |
Corporate Commercial, Franchise, Maritime, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Technology, Transportation | |||
Alvarez, KC, Henri C. | International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Henri Alvarez is an internationally recognized Canadian arbitrator who practices as an independent neutral at Vancouver Arbitration Chambers (VAC). Before establishing an independent arbitration practice (effective 1 December 2016), Henri was an associate and partner of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP for 32 years. Henri has over 35 years of experience as arbitrator and counsel in the field of international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. From 1985 until 2012, Henri taught a course in this field at the Faculty of Law at The University of British Columbia. He has served as an arbitrator in a wide variety of international and domestic commercial arbitrations involving investments, trade, franchising, licensing, distributorship, construction, forestry, oil and gas, energy, banking, corporate and general commercial disputes. He has served as a sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and presiding arbitrator in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations in many international commercial disputes and investment disputes. |
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Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 2008 Ranking and Awards
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Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Franchise, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Investor-State Disputes, Labour, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Sports | ||
Ashford, Peter | International Arbitration | London | UK (United Kingdom) | ➽ |
Peter Ashford is an independent arbitrator handling international cases. Until 2022 he was a partner with Fox Williams LLP in London, UK and was co-head of international arbitration. He remains a consultant to Fox Williams and co-head of international arbitration. In nearly 40 years of experience as counsel and arbitrator, Peter has gained broad experience in complex, challenging and high stakes business disputes primarily around a variety of contracts including sales of goods and supply of services, M&A, transport and logistics, renewable energy, joint ventures, agency, distribution, construction, employment and insurance across a wide spectrum of industries. As arbitrator he prides himself on his understanding of complex loss calculations (drawing on his degree in economics), the speed of his decision making and accuracy of costs estimates. |
As arbitrator, Peter promotes an early assessment with the parties (and their counsel) of the issues, the process, costs options, the required directions and evidence on each issue. He draws on his own experience as counsel to understand the implications of each option. Peter also draws on his considerable experience in acting and advising on complex domestic and international commercial arbitration with particular emphasis on arbitrations administered by the main institutional bodies across a broad range of sectors. Peter prides himself on the speed of disseminating his decisions. He aims for all awards and substantive POs to be completed within 7 working days (in the case of awards to be delivered to the institution within that period and in the case of co-arbitrator or presiding arbitrator, to colleagues). |
Peter is the author of his first book on the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration and has also written a companion volume on the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration – both published by Cambridge University Press (2013 and 2016 respectively) Peter is also the author of the Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration published by Juris Publications of New York in 2009 with a second edition in 2014. Peter regularly publishes articles in Arbitration – the journal of the CIArb. |
Soc. Sci (Law & Economics) 1983 |
Accounting, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Technology, Telecommunications | |||
Barsukov, Artem | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Edmonton | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Artem Barsukov is a Swedish and Russian speaking lawyer who carries on a global arbitration practice out of Edmonton, leveraging a near-decade of experience in international dispute resolution. Over the years, Artem has successfully represented clients all over the world in complex international and domestic arbitrations collectively worth over USD $2 Billion. He has acted as arbitration counsel under the leading international arbitration systems, including ICC, LCIA, and UNCITRAL, and appeared before multinational Arbitral Tribunals in Doha, Qatar; London, England; and Mexico City, Mexico; as well as virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Having been involved in a number of matters from inception to conclusion, Artem has in-depth understanding of the arbitral procedure and how to conduct a fair and efficient dispute resolution process. Artem has particular expertise in complex construction disputes, having acted for owners, authorities, contractors, and subcontractors in a wide variety of disputes arising from large-scale international construction projects in various locations around the world. Prior to entering private practice, Artem worked at the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, where he learned the inner workings of judicial decision-making and how to craft well-supported and reasoned decisions directly from justices of the Court. |
Accelerated Route to Fellowship, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, May-June 2021 |
Law Society of Alberta, 2012 Law Society of Ontario, 2014 ICC Canada Arbitration Committee ADR Institute of Canada ADR Institute of Alberta The Advocates’ Society Swedish Arbitration Association Young Arbitrators Sweden International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners |
University of Alberta, BComm (International Business), 2008, with distinction University of Alberta, LLB, 2012, with distinction Uppsala University (Sweden), International Business Exchange Student, 2006 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Government, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder | ||
Bauman, Robert J. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Over the course of a 27-year judicial career, Bob presided as both a trial judge and appellate judge, culminating in his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia for four years, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Yukon and Chief Justice of British Columbia for ten years. Bob served as Vice-Chair of the Canadian Judicial Council from 2013 to 2016. He retired from his judicial career in October 2023. In legal practice Bob specialized in municipal and administrative law, while over the course of his judicial career he dealt with all manner of cases, both civil and criminal. Bob looks forward to developing his ADR practice both provincially and nationally. He will also continue to promote his major passion—access to justice—both locally, as a board member of Access Pro Bono BC, and internationally. Mr. Bauman is currently doing arbitrations and anticipates expanding his practice to include mediations in the near future. |
Pepperdine University: Mediating the Litigated Case |
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LLB University of Toronto,1974 (with high honours) |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Energy, Financial Services, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Telecommunications, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
Bekkering, Carla A. | Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
I have been a practicing lawyer for over thirty years. I clerked for the Tax Court of Canada after my call to the BC Bar in 1992. I am a partner in my law firm Bekkering York. My practice includes personal injury, insurance, and, general litigation. I have also handled family law and construction law cases over my career. I am a seasoned trial counsel and have conducted many jury and judge alone trials during my career. I have also appeared as lead counsel at the B.C. Court of Appeal. I am a Chartered Arbitrator with ADRBC. I am on the ADRBC Roster for total damage arbitrators for various insurance companies. I am also an adjudicator on the Attorney General’s Municipal Bylaw Adjudication Roster and conduct hearings at municipalities throughout the province. I am a qualified mediator with ADRBC. I have also completed a six-month mentored mediation program focusing on Worksafe matters. Mediation is a current part of my practice both as counsel and as mediator. My mediation practice is in the area of general civil litigation matters. I am on the Roster List for the Attorney General of BC as an approved mediator. I have co mediated and solo mediated many cases including WCB, CRT facilitations and Insurance/Personal Injury Matters. I have also mediated cases involving oil tank placement, commercial disputes, and, occupiers’ liability. I am an active volunteer currently assisting with Amici Curiae. I am currently the Treasurer for the ADRBC Board of Directors. |
I have taken 80 hours of mediation-based training over and above my qualifications for my law degree. I partake in continuing education in this area. My firm is a long term sponsor of the ADRBC annual symposium. I have taken the Arbitrators’ Training Course through ADRBC. Since then, I have conducted numerous arbitrations for Insurance Companies including Commercial Claims. As a result, I achieved the Chartered Arbitrator Designation through ADRBC. I also participate in arbitration files as counsel defending UMP claims and have extensive experience in that area. |
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Accounting, Employment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury | ||
Bell, Glen W. | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Glen W. Bell practised law for over 40 years in the fields of commercial litigation, administrative law and environmental law. He is an experienced arbitrator and med – arb practitioner in a wide variety of commercial disputes. For more details of his experience, see www.gwbellarbitrator.com Glen W. Bell’s commitment is to provide an economical, speedy and just approach to commercial dispute resolution. Glen W. Bell is also an experienced ADR teacher. He is the director and chief lecturer in the Arbitrator Training Program of ADRBC. He trains arbitrators in contract law, arbitration procedure and award writing. |
Publications Author, “An Arbitrator’s Practice Manual (British Columbia)” (2020) |
Queen’s University, B.A., 1967 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Franchise, Government, Indigenous, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Tax, Wills and Estates | |||
Billiet, Philippe | International Arbitration, Mediation | Brussels | Belgium | ➽ |
Philippe is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar, specialising in conflict resolution, arbitration and commercial law. He received his LL.M. in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick. Philippe was one of the first mediators to obtain EMTPJ (European Mediation Training for Practitioners of Justice) certification and he often intervenes in cases with a diplomatic dimension. He is vice-president of the Chambre d’arbitrage d’experts, a member of the advisory board of the Brussels Diplomatic Academy, and a registered arbitrator in numerous institutions around the world. He lectures on tools and strategies for conflict resolution at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He works in Dutch, French and English. In addition, he can hold a conversation in German and understands Polish. |
Listed as an arbitrator / mediator with approximately 15 institutes/centres. |
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LL.M. International Economic Law (Cum laude) University of Warwick, England Masters of Law (Cum laude) KU Leuven, Belgium Bachelor of Law (Cum laude) Brussels University, Belgium |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Financial Services, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Maritime, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation | |||
Booker, Arthur James | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation, Referee | Victoria | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
James is the Director of JBCS International Ltd. with its office in Vancouver, Canada, and prior to his return to Vancouver in 2020, he was a resident of Indonesia for 29 years where, for the last 10 years, he was President Director of a boutique advisory firm, PT JBCS Indonesia. He has extensive experience on the development, financing, construction and operation of major projects in the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors in the UK, USA, Peru, Canada, Bolivia, Ecuador, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia and Bangladesh. His expertise covers technical, commercial and legal areas, and he is familiar with the FIDIC suite of contracts as well as bespoke construction contracts. He has significant experience in drafting and negotiation of PPAs, EPC contracts, fuel supply contracts, O&M contracts and general commercial and corporate agreements. James also serves as mediator and arbitrator in disputes related to the construction, energy and mining sectors, acts as advisor/counsel to clients in mediation or arbitration proceedings, and also sits on various dispute adjudication boards. James is a frequent speaker at international conferences on energy, mining, and dispute resolution, and conducts workshops on various topics, including structuring and negotiation of EPC contracts, power purchase agreements, fuel supply contracts and mining contracts. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Transportation | ||
Boskovich, Joseph A. | Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Joe has more than 30 years experience as a civil and criminal law litigator with a diverse range of experience in the Provincial, Supreme and Federal Courts. His practice has focussed in the area of personal injury, insurance law and commercial litigation. He also has extensive experience with fishing and maritime law, a natural outgrowth of his family’s long involvement with the British Columbia fishing industry. |
In 1985 Joe qualified as a mediator, completing the Mediation Training course given by the B.C. Justice Institute and National Centre for Mediation Education in Washington, D.C. Since 1987, Joe has had an active practice as an Arbitrator and Mediator. He has mediated over of 3,500 cases involving personal injury, insurance disputes, commercial disputes, contracts, professional negligence, construction (“leaky condo”), family, partnership matters, estate matters, corporate shareholder disputes, and disputes involving Crown corporations and Ministries. He has acted as an Arbitrator and as Counsel in domestic commercial arbitrations involving insurance issues, franchising, construction, partnerships and general commercial disputes. In 1993 Joe took part in a lengthy multi-party Mediation Institute seminar orientated towards the design of multi-party negotiation processes, aboriginal interests, cross-cultural dynamics and the structuring of the complex multi-party agreements. This training also included institutional and public conflict resolution. His training with multi-party mediation was extended in 1995 to include environmental disputes. In 1995 Joe participated in a course, ADR & Negotiation for the Defence, given by the American Defence Research Institute (DRI) in San Francisco. In 1996 he attended Harvard Law School’s Advanced Mediation Course. In 1997 he participated in a Harvard Law School mediation workshop at Simon Fraser University, and in 1998 attended a Defence Practise Mediation and Arbitration Seminar given by DRI in Chicago, Illinois. In June 1999 he attended the Advanced Mediation Course at Osgood Law School, Toronto, Ontario. |
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University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1969 |
Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Sports, Wills and Estates | ||
Brackstone, Paul | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Paul is a litigator and legal advisor with 20 years of experience in private practice acting for clients on complex commercial matters, with particular expertise in the areas of construction, real estate and strata law, commercial leasing, and shareholder and partner disputes. He has appeared as trial and appellate counsel at all levels of courts in British Columbia and at the Supreme Court of Canada. In addition to his extensive court experience Paul has represented clients in dozens of arbitrations and mediations. Paul is currently a managing director at Owen Bird Law Corporation responsible for the overall management of the firm. Paul completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria and worked as a high school teacher before obtaining his law degree in 2004. He was the recipient of the British Columbia Law Society Gold medal for the highest academic standing in his graduating law class, and received many other academic awards. Paul also served as a law clerk at the British Columbia Court of Appeal He has served as a board member for various non-profit societies in the community, including currently sitting on the board of directors of the North Shore Winter Club. |
Paul has extensive experience in arbitrations and mediations, both in British Columbia and beyond, in a wide range of disputes including commercial lease disputes, construction claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, real estate and strata disputes and various other areas. |
• Member, Law Society of British Columbia |
• Bachelor of Education – University of Victoria, 1999 |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Brown, Hon. Neil A. | International Arbitration, Mediation | Melbourne | Victoria | AU (Australia) | ➽ |
The Hon Neil Brown KC is a Kings Counsel in Australia and has had a long and distinguished career in government and the law. He was a Minister in the Federal Government in Australia in charge of portfolios in Attorney-General’s, Communications and Employment and Youth Affairs. In the law, he has appeared in every jurisdiction in Australia and has had experience in commercial, intellectual property, town planning and taxation matters. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is a qualified arbitrator and mediator practicing in international and domestic matters in the commercial, communication, intellectual property and governmental fields. He is a leading arbitrator and adviser on internet domain name disputes. Representative cases include:
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Practiced in dispute resolution tribunals, arbitration and mediation since 1964 |
Maintaining website on domain name arbitration at www.domaintimes.info |
University of Melbourne, LLB 1963 |
Accounting, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Government, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Real Estate, Sports, Technology, Wills and Estates | ||
Brown, Russell | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
I served for 10 1/2 years on the Canadian judiciary, including eight years on the Supreme Court of Canada, writing and participating in significant judgments in commercial law, insurance law, private law, energy law, public law, tax law, technology, aboriginal law, criminal law and constitutional law. I previously served as a trial and appellate judge in Alberta, was professor and associate Dean of Law at the University of Alberta, the chair of the Health Law Institute, and litigation counsel at the Bars of Alberta and British Columbia, practicing in insurance, commercial law, construction/infrastructure, employment, trusts, medical negligence and major casualty. As a trial judge, I also conducted dozens of judicial dispute resolutions, achieving a high rate of settlement. |
I presently serve as sole or co-arbitrator in domestic and international commercial matters involving mining, real estate development, transport, and the sale and regulation of electricity. I have conducted complex commercial mediations in real estate development, oil & gas, insurance and intellectual property matters. I have also participated as counsel in approximately 50 mediations, including complex cross-border mediations with jurisdictional disputes. I have participated in counsel in approximately 10 domestic arbitrations. As a member of the Canadian judiciary, I wrote over 175 judgments, approximately 100 of them at the Supreme Court of Canada. |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Energy, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Tax, Telecommunications, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
Carbajal, Christian | International Arbitration | Curitiba | Parana | BR (Brazil) | ➽ |
Legal counsel in domestic arbitration (Peruvian and Brazilian Arbitration Centers) and in international arbitration (ICSID, ICC and GAFTA). Arbitrator in domestic arbitrator proceedings (in commercial, civil, energy, infrastructure and construction issues). Former Secretary of arbitration in commercial arbitration proceedings. Director of Arbitration of CAMESC (Brazil) and former Secretary General of the International Arbitration Center of the Lima Chamber of Commerce (Peru). Law Professor of International Arbitration in Peruvian universities (ULIMA and UESAN) and Brazilian universities (PUCPR and UNIVALI). Member of the Working Groups on Arbitration and Public Administration and Investment Arbitration of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr). Member of the Arbitration Committee of OAB/SC (Brazilian Bar Association), Brazil. Speaker in Seminars on Conflict Resolution, National and International Arbitration, Foreign Investment and Free Trade Agreements. Coach of the Arbitration Team of the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR) • FDI International Arbitration Moot – University of Miami 2019 and Korea 2021. Arbitrator at Pre-Moots (Vis Moots ICC-Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, CAMARB-Brazil, CAM-CCBC and FDI Moot). Member of the “FDI Moot College of Arbitrators – Center for International Legal Studies (CILS)”, Salzburg, Austria and President of the Committee No. I on Public and Private International Law of the Inter-American Bar Association (IABA), Washington DC. |
Legal counsel in domestic (Peruvian and Brazilian Arbitration Centers) and in international arbitrations (ICSID, ICC and GAFTA). Arbitrator in domestic arbitrator proceedings (in commercial, civil, energy, infrastructure and construction issues). |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures | ||
Carroll, Michael P. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Throughout his career Michael’s practice has focused on commercial and corporate disputes. He has appeared in cases at all trial and appellate levels including the B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Canada, Superior Court and Court of Appeal of Québec, Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta and the Supreme Courts of the Northwest Territories and Yukon. He has also appeared before an international panel of arbitrators in Washington, D.C., in a dispute under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Since January 2007, his practice has focused on domestic arbitration and mediation. Originally from Montréal, Michael began practicing in Québec in 1968 where he was a partner in the firm of Martineau Walker until 1980 when he moved to Vancouver. Michael was the managing partner of DLA Piper (Canada) LLP from 1986 through 1989. |
Mediation Experience Michael has acted as Mediator in over 100 disputes in a wide variety of commercial matters including claims involving multiple Plaintiffs and Defendants. Some examples are Real Estate ( REDMA, Strata Property Act claims) construction law, Professional Liability of accountants and lawyers, claims for breach of contract, fiduciary duties, negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation, Forestry Act disputes, and bankruptcy and insolvency priority claims. Arbitration Experience Michael has acted as a sole arbitrator and chaired arbitration panels in Alberta and British Columbia in numerous commercial disputes. Examples are claims for breach of contract or fiduciary duties, negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation claims, Professional Partnership disputes, employment law matters, and disputes between doctors and Provincial Health Authorities. Training Has attended mediation training sessions conducted by CLE and Dispute Resolution Inc and Arbitration training sessions conducted by the Western Canadian Commercial Arbitration Society. |
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LL.L., Laval University, 1967 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Real Estate | ||
Carteri, Karen L.M. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Karen L.M. Carteri is a trusted and tenacious trial and appellate lawyer. She joined NST as a partner in 2016 where she has continued her emergence as a leading litigator in British Columbia. Prior to joining NST, Karen was a litigation partner in the Vancouver office of a national law firm, including five years as leader of the firm’s Vancouver litigation group. Karen is committed to understanding her clients’ needs and their desired outcomes. She tailors strategy, applies analysis and undertakes advocacy throughout the dispute resolution process toward procuring optimal results for her clients, whether in court, arbitration, or through negotiation. She has a talent for handling and managing very complex cases. Karen’s practice includes shareholder and corporate disputes and remedies, partnership disputes, property development disputes, property title and insurance issues, work for financial institutions, work in the resource and mining sector, civil forfeiture, and a wide variety of contract disputes in various sectors. Throughout her career and continuing today, Karen has placed tremendous value on mentorship received and on being available to offer mentorship to others. Karen became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators having completed the intensive course and peer interview process. She has also acted as counsel in numerous complex commercial arbitrations and mediations. She has been practicing law for over 25 years. |
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London, England) Community Involvement • Member of the Board of Directors of PALS Autism School, 2023-present |
• British Columbia Bar, 2002 |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Financial Services, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Wills and Estates | |||
Chaykhouni, Jamal | International Arbitration | Dubai | Emirate of Dubai | UAE (United Arab Emirates) | ➽ |
Jamal has over 35 years of success as a Civil Engineer in Transport, Land, Sea Ports & Airports expertise, a world proficient in Project Management, Feasibility studies projects, ADR & International Arbitration, Certified Contracts Experts , in Construction, Real Estate & Energy Expert Witness, Claim Preparation & delay dispute Analyst, Contract & Dispute Resolution, President founder of Canada Quality Experts CQE since 2005 and active member of ICCA , ICC and IBA the International Bar Association. A Certified Adjudicator from Malaysian KLRCA, a Certified Construction & Real Estate Arbitrator & Expert at Dubai Courts & Ministry Of Justice Engineering Expert. A Certified Arbitrator from Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, The Netherlands in 2017. A Certified Mediator from School of Law International University of Business& Economy in Beijing-China, a Chartered Arbitrator, a Construction & Real Estate Valuer from the Dubai Real Estate Institute and an Engineer Expert in Dubai and UAE Federal Court in Construction and Real Estate Disputes with over 1600 cases since 2006, an Active Arbitrator and Member of DIAC-DIFC with over 60 cases as an Arbitrator since 2007. |
Jamal has over 15 years of arbitral experience. He has worked with DIAC –DIFC as an active member and arbitrator from 2006 to present day. He is an Expert in:
He has arbitrated over 60 cases as an Arbitrator and over 1600 cases in Expert Witness Report in UAE Courts. |
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PHD in Construction & Energy Contract Law. (Online NY-USA) 2019 |
Corporate Commercial, Maritime, Real Estate, Transportation | ||
Chiasson, Craig R. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Craig has acted as counsel in international commercial arbitrations and in investor-state arbitrations under bilateral investment treaties and other multilateral investment treaties, for both respondent States and claimant investors. His international commercial arbitration experience (past and present) includes, representing:
His commercial arbitration experience (past and present) as arbitrator includes:
His investment treaty experience includes advising:
Craig has also acted as tribunal secretary to Jan Paulsson in Pantechniki S.A. Contractors & Engineers v. Republic of Albania (ICSID Case No ARB/07/21) and in an ICC case to Noah Rubins relating to the dismantling, transportation and reconstruction of a steel plant. He has appeared as counsel in ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, SCC, VanIAC and ad hoc arbitration proceedings and in the Appeal, Supreme, and Provincial Courts of British Columbia. |
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Qualified Solicitor of England and Wales, 2011 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Technology | |||
Chiasson, Edward C. “Ed” | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Ed Chiasson is a retired Judge of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia as of December 11, 2015. He has thirty nine years of civil litigation experience, including twenty plus years in arbitration. He has appeared in all courts of British Columbia, Alberta, the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory, all divisions of the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Chiasson’s substantive experience is very broad, covering purely commercial matters, construction, employment, shipping, banking, corporate, constitution law, intellectual property, franchising etc. Details can be provided upon request. |
Ed has appeared as counsel and acted as an arbitrator or mediator in domestic and international proceedings in Canada, France, England, United States, Hong Kong and Singapore involving parties from Eastern and Western Europe, North America, the Pacific Rim and India. The arbitrations have been both ad hoc and institutional, including proceedings under UNCITRAL Rules, the American Arbitration Association, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) and the International Centre of Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Mediations include acting under the Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Centre for the Americas (CAMCA). He sat on FTA Chapter 19 bi-national panel – two as chair. He was also an Arbitrator in a NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration and was an administrative panellist in over 100 proceedings under the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy the STOP procedure as a sole panellist, presiding panellist and co-panellist. He completed mediation training in a program sponsored by the Centre for Public Resources (CPR), over four days, including extensive role-playing. |
Ed Chiasson has spoken at many conferences and had many publications on the topic of ADR. He was the Hunter Professor of Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, City University of Hong Kong 1995-1996 and taught an ADR seminar at UBC School of Law for 12 years. Ed was an associate at Harper Grey Easton – 1967-1969; associate and partner Ladner Downs (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP) -1969-2006. He as been involved in a number of community activities including Chair of the Vancouver Symphony Society Board. |
B.A., Notre Dame College and University of British Columbia, 1963 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Franchise, Indigenous, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Maritime, Technology | ||
Cicchetti, Tina | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Frisco | TX (Texas) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Tina Cicchetti is a leading arbitration practitioner, an independent Neutral with Vancouver Arbitration Chambers (VAC) and a Member Arbitrator at Arbitration Place in Toronto. She has served as sole arbitrator and tribunal chair in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. Tina also has extensive experience as counsel in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. Before joining VAC, Tina was a partner of Fasken, a Global Arbitration Review top 100 firm (GAR 100) in 2016 and 2017. Tina has almost 20 years of experience in the resolution of complex commercial disputes. From the beginning of her career, her focus has been on arbitration as a means of commercial dispute resolution. She is regularly asked to speak on the topics of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution and has authored several articles on the subject. Since 2019 Tina has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration. |
From 2003 to 2011, Tina taught international commercial disputes as an Adjunct Professor at the UBC Faculty of Law. She has taught arbitrator training courses for ICDR Canada and presented at numerous CLEs, conferences and online seminars on various aspects of arbitration practice. Tina has been involved in more than 15 International arbitration matters and been appointed as sole arbitrator and chair in disputes under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Rules and ICDR/AAA Rules. She also has advised on matters under other arbitration rules including the, American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA), Swiss Rules, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC, formerly the BCICAC). |
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Mediating the Litigated Case, Straus Institute, Pepperdine Law School – 2018 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Franchise, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Transportation | ||
Clemens, Murray A. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Clemens has practised as counsel in the field of civil litigation and administrative law since being called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1976. His practice has included appearances in all of the Superior Courts of British Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada and before arbitration panels involving shareholders and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, real estate, employment, securities, banking, insurance and maritime litigation. Mr. Clemens is experienced in administrative hearings including proceedings before the Securities Commission and Disciplinary and Credential Committees of self-governing professional associations both as counsel and as legal advisor to the decision maker. |
Mr. Clemens is a recognized leader in a field of alternate dispute resolution, accepting appointments as arbitrator or mediator in commercial disputes. He has conducted multi-party interest arbitrations as well as complex commercial arbitrations. He has assisted parties in refining their dispute resolution processes to meet the specific requirements presented in particular disputes. |
Murray Clemens, KC held the following positions:
Mr. Clemens was appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1993. Recognized by Lexpert 2010 as a “consistently recommended leading Practitioner” in Corporate-Commercial Litigation. Author:
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University of Toronto, B.A. (Political Economy), 1972 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Franchise, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Transportation | ||
Coblin, Shane D. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Shane has extensive experience in all areas of commercial arbitration. His practice is focused on complex commercial disputes, including commercial leasing, construction, and shareholder disputes. Shane is a partner in the litigation department of Kornfeld LLP where he represents owners, investors and major developers in complex disputes with shareholders, vendors, contractors, builders, strata corporations and other parties. Shane also advises corporations and individuals in shareholder disputes and matters involving securities, contracts and partnerships, insolvency, fiduciary obligations, negligence and fraud. Shane has received the recognition of his peers as a leader in his field. He has maintained an AV Preeminent rating in Martindale Hubbell for the highest level of professional excellence and high ethical standing since 2017. He has been named as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation since 2020, and he has been recognized by Best Lawyers for expertise in Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Commercial Leasing Law since 2021. |
Shane is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has acted as counsel on numerous commercial arbitration matters involving commercial leasing and other commercial disputes. |
Law Society of British Columbia |
Faculty of Law, Queen’s University at Kingston, LLB Bar Admissions |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Financial Services, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Technology, Wills and Estates | ||
Cohen, Tracey | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Tracey Cohen, KC is a leading commercial litigation and dispute resolution Partner in the Vancouver office of Fasken. Tracey has been recognized for expertise in Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation and International and Commercial Arbitration and has repeatedly been recognized as one of Canada’s top 25 female litigators. Tracey was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 2015 and was admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in March 2019, and a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America in 2020. Tracey has been noted for her ability to strategize the best approach for complex disputes. She is recognized as “very strong in developing relationships” and for understanding her clients’ business and objectives. Tracey is currently a member of the Firm’s Partnership Board. She is also Co-Chair of Fasken’s Commercial Litigation Group in BC and Chair of Fasken’s National Arbitration Steering Committee. |
Tracey acts as counsel on a range of matters, with a focus on corporate commercial litigation and international and domestic arbitration matters, including class actions, oppression proceedings, derivative actions, pension litigation, professional negligence, mining, tax litigation, fraud, and securities matters, including hostile take-over bids, and shareholder disputes. She has worked with major international law firms in the United States to collaborate on cross-border litigation. |
• Member, Law Society of British Columbia |
• LLB, University of British Columbia, 1991 |
Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Entertainment, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Technology | ||
Comeau, Mary E. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mary was a senior commercial litigator, with over 25 year’s experience as arbitration counsel in complex commercial dispute resolution, focusing on oil and gas, electricity and mining matters. A graduate of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law (Gold Medalist 1989) she started her career at Macleod Dixon, which merged with Norton Rose in 2011, now Norton Rose Fulbright, where she retired as Senior Partner and Litigation Practice Group Leader December 31, 2017. On January 1, 2018 she joined Western Arbitration Chambers as an independent neutral. In May, 2022 she moved to Vancouver and joined Vancouver Arbitration Chambers as an independent neutral. She has enjoyed the transition from advocate to adjudicator and has sat as sole arbitrator and as a Tribunal member, including as Chair. |
Mary has practiced in the arbitration field since the early 1990’s and has extensive experience as counsel in commercial arbitration. As arbitrator she has decided matters ranging from pipeline development disputes to hard rock mining issues to construction matters. She has sat as sole arbitrator as well as on three member panels, including as Chair. She is appointed to numerous rosters and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, England. She is a sought-after speaker in the field and is co-chair of the ICDR Canada Advisory Committee. She has numerous awards and recognitions, including being recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2023 Lawyer of the Year in International Arbitration in Vancouver. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Indigenous, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures | ||
Cotie, Joan | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Cobble Hill | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Joan is committed to working with clients to create dynamic, healthy relationships for families and organizations. Joan’s work is multi-disciplinary. She is trained as a social worker, mediator and arbitrator with more than 35 years of experience. Joan is able to apply her skills and knowledge from these professions to build agreements that are unique and meet the needs of all clients. She believes that the parties self-determination and the creativity of people working together is the basis of conflict resolution. Her approach is respectful, facilitative and flexible to the parties needs while working collaboratively toward mutually beneficial solutions. Joan’s experience with the not-for-profit sector, union and labour sector, and with children, youth and families gives her a multi-faceted perspective and knowledge. Formally educated in Child Care Work (diploma), Social Work, (Bachelor and Masters degrees) Law, Women’s Studies (Bachelor’s level) and Conflict Resolution (certificate) (mediation, negotiation, parent coordination and arbitration). |
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Corporate Commercial, Family, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Wills and Estates | ||
Crow, Jessica | International Arbitration | London | London | UK (United Kingdom) | ➽ |
Jessica is an independent arbitrator who specialises in Energy and Natural Resources, Climate Change and the Environment, General Commercial Disputes and Public International Law. She has particular expertise in matters relating to the energy transition and the international climate change regime. Jessica has more than a decade of experience in international commercial and investment arbitration. She has served as Sole, Co-Arbitrator and Counsel in high value, complex disputes under most major arbitral institutions, numerous governing laws, and arbitral seats. She also has experience in the energy sector as in-house counsel to a prominent Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) company and in the public sector as the Special Legislative Assistant to the Government House Leader in the Parliament of Ontario, Canada. In the field of climate law and governance, she advises corporates, investors, and States in relation to international and domestic climate policy, energy transition regulations, and litigation risk. Jessica’s practice is also shaped by her role with leading research institutions. She is a doctoral researcher in climate law and litigation at the University of Cambridge, Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) where she collaborates with world-leading experts in climate science, economics, and law. She also works in close collaboration with the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and teaches environmental law and economics at Cambridge. Jessica sits on the Advisory Committee of the Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP), the North American regional sub-committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators ADR & Sustainability Specialist Group Steering Committee. She is admitted to practice in New York and as a Solicitor in England and Wales and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. |
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Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Telecommunications, Transportation | ||
Cundari, Laura | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Laura is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and an Arbitration Place NexGen Arbitrator with particular expertise in the arbitration of complex domestic and international disputes. She was appointed in 2021 by the Government of British Columbia to serve a five-year term as a roster member for BC’s Bid Protest Mechanism and Dispute Resolution panels, which were established under the New West Partnership Trade Agreement and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. Laura has extensive arbitration experience as counsel and has served as an independent neutral. Laura regularly speaks and writes on matters related to dispute resolution. A full list of recent publications and professional appearances can be found on her Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP firm profile. |
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Laura is a director of the Canada Branch of the CIArb as well as the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre. She is an invited member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society, a director of the board of CanArbWeek and a member of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee. Laura is also a member of the Advocates’ Society’s British Columbia Regional Advisory Committee. Laura volunteers her time with a number of charitable organizations and is a member of the Board of Directors of Ballet BC. She sat on the board of directors of Touchstone Theatre Society for several years, including as President of the board. She was also a member of Executive Leadership Team (BC – Yukon Region) for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of BC from 2019-2021. |
• Admitted to the British Columbia Bar – 2008 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Hospitality, Indigenous, Partnership and Shareholder | ||
Day, Peter R. | International Arbitration | Mercer Island | WA (Washington) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Mr. Day’s wide-ranging experience as a business lawyer, trial lawyer, corporate executive and university educator make him well-suited to serve as a neutral in nearly any alternative dispute resolution setting. He has a broad background as a lawyer with over 35 years of practice, ranging from trial practice and litigation management to a wide-ranging corporate practice, with significant experience in intellectual property, international business, construction, aircraft finance, real estate, and asset sales. After graduate studies in law in Germany and in business administration as a Fulbright scholar in France, he joined the legal department of The Boeing Company, where he enjoyed a 25-year career which included assignments as Chief Counsel for two division legal departments. In his role as Chief Counsel for two divisions of The Boeing Company, a substantial part of his responsibility was cost-effective and prompt dispute resolution, using negotiation, informal means of alternative dispute resolution, and formal mediation, arbitration or litigation when necessary. Concurrently, he set up and managed fully integrated in-house and outside counsel claims teams in the successful defense of over $100 million in construction claims at minimum cost, many of which were resolved through arbitration. Mr. Day is reasonably fluent in both German and French and has negotiated business transactions in both languages. After living and doing business on three continents, he has an understanding of the interplay of different legal systems and cultures in international business, a management perspective of business disputes and a very pragmatic approach to dispute resolution. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Day served as a Marine Corps trial lawyer in Vietnam and Japan, then as Chief Prosecutor and Court-martial judge at Camp Pendleton, California. Following release from active duty, he joined the Office of the District Attorney of San Mateo County, California, where he tried 22 jury trials. |
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He is the chair of the Seattle Chapter of the North America Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has taught International Commercial Arbitration at the University of Washington School of Law. He has also taught both MBA and undergraduate courses in business law and international law at the Seattle University Albers School of Business and Economics. He has co-sponsored workshops on cross-examination in international arbitration, hosted by the Beijing and Shanghai Arbitration Commissions in their respective cities, and in Vienna, co-sponsored by the ICC Austria and Dorda Brugger Jordis. In 2016, he was an instructor for the “International Dispute Resolution Masterclass,” in Beijing, sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators & UNCITRAL. With the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, he has taught trial practice to lawyers for 15 years at the San Diego and Seattle programs, as well as in-house “Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration” training programs in London. Arbitration Panels China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) Beijing Arbitration Commission World Intellectual Property Organization International Centre for Dispute Resolution American Arbitration Association Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration London Court of International Arbitration |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Real Estate, Securities | ||
Deane, Robert J. C. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Deane is a partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the National Leader of the Firm’s International Trade and Arbitration Group, and an elected member of the Partnership Board, the Firm’s governing body. He also serves as the Co-National Leader of the Privacy and Data Security Group and as the Vancouver Regional Leader of the Advertising, Marketing and Sponsorship Law Group. Robert practises international and domestic commercial arbitration, commercial litigation, privacy law, intellectual property litigation and advertising/competition law. He is ranked nationally and internationally as a leading lawyer in these areas. Mr. Deane has experience in all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and in numerous significant international commercial arbitration proceedings in North America, Asia and Europe under the LCIA Rules, the ICC Rules, the ICSID (Additional Facility) Rules, the American Arbitration Association’s International Arbitration Rules, the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Domestic and International Arbitration Rules of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre, and the National Arbitration Rules of the ADR Institute of Canada, among others. Prior to joining BLG, Robert was a law clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada (now the Rt. Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, Chief Justice of Canada). |
Mr. Deane has been involved in numerous significant arbitration proceedings throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Mr. Deane represented the United Mexican States in NAFTA Chapter Eleven arbitral proceedings and related court proceedings before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada (Metalclad Corp. v. United Mexican States; Feldman v. United Mexican States; Bayview Irrigation District v. United Mexican States; Corn Products International Inc. v. United Mexican States; Cargill Inc. v. United Mexican States). Mr. Deane also appeared for the United Mexican States in Waste Management Inc. v. United Mexican States, and has provided advice on numerous other NAFTA Chapter Eleven and other investment treaty arbitral proceedings. Mr. Deane’s arbitration practice has also provided him with opportunities to work with the LCIA Rules, the ICSID (Additional Facility) Rules, the ICC Arbitration Rules, the American Arbitration Association’s International Arbitration Rules (ICDR), the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Domestic and International Arbitration Rules of the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre, and the National Arbitration Rules of the ADR Institute of Canada, among others. |
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LLB, University of Victoria, 1998 (Law Society of BC Gold Medallist) |
Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing | ||
Drymer, Stephen L. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Montreal | QC (Quebec) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Stephen L. Drymer heads Woods LLP’s Arbitration practice. A litigator and advocate by background and experience, Stephen is a leading figure in domestic and international arbitration and dispute resolution. He acts as counsel and serves as mediator, arbitrator and tribunal president under the laws of jurisdictions throughout Canada and abroad, in ad hoc proceedings and in cases administered by the world’s most prominent arbitral institutions. Stephen also advises parties on a broad range of issues associated with the design, negotiation, drafting and implementation of dispute resolution agreements and strategies. Within the practice areas noted above, Stephen has worked with clients and parties in a wide range of industries and businesses including manufacturing, infrastructure, pulp and paper, petrochemicals, oil and gas, mining, renewables, environment, outsourcing, aviation, aerospace and crop science. Stephen is also very active in the resolution of sport-related disputes, among other, in cases before the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. In addition to extensive work as counsel, he has served as arbitrator and or in numerous cases involving a wide range of issues and sports. Listed in the world’s top legal directories as a leader in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, and a frequent lecturer, Stephen is among the most sought-after arbitrators in Canada and internationally. |
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Institutional panels of arbitrators and mediators, including:
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McGill University, Faculty of Law, Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) and Common Law (LL.B.), 1990 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Franchise, Government, Hospitality, Indigenous, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Sports, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation | ||
Duffy, James P. | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
J.P. is a globally recognized arbitration practitioner who handles all aspects of the international arbitration life cycle, from strategic clause drafting, to lead merits and hearing counsel, through award enforcement and recovery. Recognized as a global leader and one of the ten “Most Highly Regarded” international arbitration partners in the Americas by Global Arbitration Review’s WWL, he has represented clients across a range of industries in international arbitrations conducted under all major arbitral rules, including those of the ICC, AAA/ICDR, LCIA, HKIAC, SIAC, DIAC, JAMS, ICSID and UNCITRAL in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. J.P. also routinely sits as an arbitrator in commercial disputes, and is listed on the arbitrator rosters of most major arbitral institutions, including specialized panels like the AAA-ICDR Life Sciences Arbitrator panel. Additionally, J.P. conducts arbitration-related litigation around the globe, such as judicial interim relief applications and multi-jurisdictional award enforcement and recovery proceedings, and is qualified in New York, England & Wales, and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. J.P. has substantial emerging market dispute resolution experience, and previously practiced as a foreign legal consultant in the Dubai office of an international law firm. His international arbitration practice has a strong geographic focus on the MENA region, the Indian sub-continent, Sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia, as well as a particular emphasis on the life sciences, defense, technology, and franchising sectors. Before entering private practice, J.P. served as a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas C. Platt in the Eastern District of New York. |
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• NYSBA (International Section) |
• St. John’s University School of Law, 2001, J.D., cum laude |
Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Sports, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation | ||
Duguid , Bryan C. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
As counsel or as arbitrator, Bryan focuses exclusively on the resolution of corporate and commercial disputes. As lead or sole counsel, he represents international and domestic corporations (commonly the largest and leading in their industries), but also privately-held start-ups and individuals. In 2014, Bryan was appointed as Queen’s Counsel, and as a Fellow of the UK-based Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In 2018, he was inducted as one of the maximum of twelve Alberta Fellows of the Construction Lawyers Society of America. In 2019, Bryan was appointed for a five-year term as one of three members of the Dispute Resolution Panel for the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator. In 2020 and 2021, he was shortlisted by Benchmark Litigation as the Alberta Litigator of the Year. Bryan is also a member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society. Bryan is recognized by Who’s Who Legal for “exceptional work in international arbitration proceedings” and as having “outstanding expertise in national and international commercial and civil litigation”. He has been selected by his peers as one of The Best Lawyers in Canada in international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, and for construction, corporate-commercial, and energy disputes. Benchmark recognizes Bryan as a Litigation Star in arbitral, commercial and energy disputes. Chambers Canada and Lexpert have identified Bryan as a leading lawyer who is repeatedly recommended for corporate-commercial disputes. Bryan started his legal career by articling with a major international law firm, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. He was an associate for 5-½ years, and a partner for 10 years. Bryan then joined Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP in 2009, serving as its Managing Partner from 2013 to 2014, and Firm Chairperson from 2015 to 2019. |
For more than 25 years Bryan has been focused on the resolution of business disputes. Over that time, the arbitral portion of his practice has increased progressively, such that it now comprises a high majority, involving complex matters typically with at least tens of millions of dollars at stake. Bryan has obtained full-ranging experience as lead or sole counsel in arbitration proceedings and hearings in various industries, including Power Purchase Arrangement arbitrations in the Alberta electricity industry, construction disputes, and commercial disputes. In 2005, he obtained a Certificate in Arbitration from the Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society (now the ADR Institute of Alberta) (ADRIA), based on 11 different relevant courses including 62 hours in attendance and additional preparatory reading and other work. In 2014, Bryan was admitted as a Fellow (FCIArb) of the worldwide London, UK-based Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. |
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1992 – Osgoode Hall Law School, Bachelor of Laws |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Financial Services, Franchise, Government, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Transportation | ||
Erdle, Michael | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Michael Erdle co-founded Practical Resolutions Inc. in 2011, to help parties resolve business and commercial disputes in an efficient, cost-effective way, through facilitated negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Michael is one of Canada’s most experienced and qualified commercial dispute resolution professionals. He has more than 25 years’ experience as a commercial lawyer, specializing in technology and intellectual property. Michael has negotiated countless agreements and assisted clients in resolving a wide variety of commercial disputes. He is a trained and experienced facilitator, mediator and arbitrator. Since 2005, Michael has successfully mediated resolutions in shareholder and joint venture matters, computer software development and implementation projects, copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret disputes. He has acted as sole arbitrator in cases involving ownership of intellectual property, software licensing, system implementation, and other commercial and contract issues. He has acted as mediator/arbitrator in several matters. Michael is a director of the ADR Institute of Ontario and the ADR Institute of Canada. He is a past president of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, a past director of the Canadian IT Law Association and a past chair of the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group. Michael has written and spoken on many current issues in technology and intellectual property law, including: dispute resolution; software development and licensing; electronic commerce; domain names; and outsourcing. He has lectured at Osgoode Hall Law School and McGill University. He currently teaches a course in “Powerful Negotiation Skills” at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. |
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Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1986 |
Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Technology | ||
Ferris, Craig | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Ferris has practiced with Lawson Lundell LLP for over 30 years. He has been involved in many (in excess of 20) international and domestic arbitrations as counsel. These arbitrations have covered a wide range of legal issues including most recently (last 2 years) mining, charitable giving, construction, and shareholders rights. For the past 3 years he has been Chair of the Law Society Tribunal and is currently President of the Law Society. |
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British Columba (1991) |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance, Partnership and Shareholder, Pension, Personal Injury, Real Estate | ||
Freeman, Claude | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Fluently bilingual, Claude’s academic background includes studies in both Business Administration and Aviation Sciences (Commercial Pilot) and Dispute Resolution Law. Combined with over 30 years of solid business experience, he is an accomplished mediator and arbitrator, with 20 years of full-time civil/commercial mediation, arbitration and fact-finding practice, including matters of employment/workplace, finance, accounting, intellectual property, code of conduct reviews, mergers and acquisitions, contract issues, insurance, and transportation. Claude has been appointed to several prominent mediation and arbitration rosters, and one of his arbitration decisions has been published in the 2007 Canadian Patent Reporter. His practice has included review/adjudication/appeals of several hundred disability/injury/insurance matters and is approved as a workplace specialist for the Federal Government. He is also an approved arbitrator by the Province of Québec to conduct arbitrations under the New Home Warranty Plan. He is also very familiar with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Claude leads a Quebec-based full-service Conflict Resolution firm, capable of helping maximize the post-COVID19 business recovery, in a financially viable way. Visit Claude’s website here. Claude has authored and published close to 30 papers, articles, and media events on Dispute Resolution, and has taught/co-taught a number of courses and seminars, and has mentored several new mediators to the profession. |
Claude initially trained as a Mediator and Arbitrator with the Quebec National and International Commercial Arbitration Centre and has earned a Masters Degree in Dispute Resolution Law, and his designations as Chartered Mediator and Chartered Arbitrator. Mediation Rosters
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Corporate Commercial, Employment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Personal Injury | |||
Gershony, Yarden D. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Kelowna | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Yarden Gershony’s practice is devoted to complex commercial litigation and arbitration. He began his career with Shearman & Sterling, a top international arbitration firm based in New York, where he acted as arbitration counsel in numerous significant disputes, including representing the successful party in winning the then-largest arbitration award in history. He then joined McCarthy Tetrault in Vancouver, where he continued practicing commercial litigation and arbitration at a high level. Yarden is now a partner at Rush Ihas Hardwick LLP, the leading dispute resolution boutique in the BC Interior. Yarden is based in Kelowna and travels regularly to Vancouver in the course of his practice. Yarden has significant experience acting as arbitrator in commercial domestic cases. As arbitrator, his goals are to provide the highest level of professional service to the parties and to craft a dispute resolution process that is as efficient as possible in each case. |
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B.A., University of Victoria (2005) |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Franchise, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate | ||
Ghikas, Gerald W. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Gerry Ghikas has over 35 years of experience as a trial lawyer, appellate advocate, arbitration counsel and commercial arbitrator. He has appeared as an advocate in numerous complex cases before Canadian courts, before administrative and regulatory tribunals and before international and domestic commercial arbitration tribunals seated in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Gerry Ghikas has also served as an arbitrator in approximately 100 international and domestic cases. His experience spans a broad range of business and legal subject matters including, but not limited to, mining, oil and gas, electrical energy, forestry, banking, corporations and shareholders, securities regulation, officers and directors liability, intellectual property, technology, real estate, manufacturing and distribution, competition and anti-trust, partnerships, joint ventures and other contractual arrangements. Gerry spent the first three years of his legal career as a solicitor, drafting leases, joint venture agreements, limited partnership agreements, financing and other documents. He is former managing partner of the Vancouver law firm Ladner Downs, and for many years chaired its Compensation Committee. |
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University of Calgary, Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, 1970 |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Real Estate, Technology | ||
Ghikas, Matthew T. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Ghikas FCIArb. is a litigator who has practiced law across western Canada for over 23 years. Although he has a commercial litigation background, for the past 20 years his primary focus has been on the energy industry (electricity, oil and gas, alternative energy, LNG), utilities, rate regulation and transportation regulation. His expertise in various areas has been recognized by organizations including Chambers, Best Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Litigation, Lexpert, Legal 500 and Thomson Reuters Stand Out Lawyers. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Mr. Ghikas has been peer-recognized as Lawyer of the Year in British Columbia in three of the past five years in energy law categories. His representative experience includes: -lead counsel to a proponent of an $800 million LNG facility -lead counsel to BC Hydro, one of Canada’s largest electric utilities, in an inquiry to determine whether to construct the $15 billion Site C dam project -lead counsel to the owner of an oil refinery and large gas station chain in a gasoline pricing inquiry -lead counsel for large electric and gas utilities on rate setting -co-counsel in final offer rail arbitrations. Mr. Ghikas is a roster arbitrator for the Canadian Transportation Agency. |
Mr. Ghikas is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. His experience as arbitrator includes: -party appointed arbitrator in a dispute over carbon credits and force majeure relating to the failure of electricity generation; -sole arbitrator in a shareholder dispute about entitlement to distributions and oppression; -sole arbitrator in a franchising dispute; and -sole arbitrator in a commercial breach of services contract dispute. He has acted as counsel in a number of arbitrations and mediations, including: – counsel to an electric utility in an arbitration regarding allocation of transmission capacity; – counsel for public utilities in mediation processes; and – advising on a dispute regarding an international LNG supply agreement. |
Best Lawyers -“Lawyer of the Year – Oil and Gas” British Columbia 2023 -“Lawyer of the Year – Energy Regulatory Law” British Columbia 2018, 2021 -International Arbitration (Vancouver) 2021-2023 -Administrative and Public Law Vancouver 2020-2023 -Energy Regulatory Law 2012-present Chambers -Energy: Power (Regulatory) Canada 2021-2023 -Energy: Regulatory and Litigation (British Columbia) 2018 Lexpert -Leading Individual in Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas 2020-2023 -Lexpert -Regulatory and Public Law 2022-2023 -Canada’s Leading Energy Lawyers 2014 -Leading 500 in Canada Oil and Gas 2017 Benchmark Litigation -“Litigation Star” energy and natural resources, 2013 to present Thomson Reuters -Standout Lawyer 2019, 2021-2022 Legal 500 -Leading Individual in Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas 2020-2024 Who’s Who Legal -Recommended in Energy 2023 |
Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of British Columbia 1995 Bachelor of Laws (LLB) University of Toronto 1998 Law Society of British Columbia 1999 Law Society of Alberta 2013 Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2018 |
Corporate Commercial, Energy, Transportation | ||
Gluck, George | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (1994-2001); International Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (1990-1994). More than twenty years of broad corporate, commercial, finance and international legal experience in common law and civil law jurisdictions in the United States, Canada and Europe. Extensive experience in a number of industries including airline, energy, financial institutions, pharmaceuticals, media and telecommunications, retail, and utilities. Transactional experience includes: Mergers and Acquisitions — private and public companies, including privatization of incumbent industries (airline, electric & gas utilities, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications). Energy — development, acquisition and financing of energy projects (including electrical generating facilities and independent power plants), negotiation of electrical power purchase agreements, and oil & gas concession, exploration and joint operating agreements. Telecommunications — acquisition and spin-off of regional and national telecommunication entities, including negotiations with governmental bodies; served as outside general counsel to an NYSE-listed telecommunications company. Significant corporate/finance experience, including negotiation and drafting of partnership, joint venture, and shareholder agreements; concession and project finance agreements; complex international syndicated loan agreements; executive employment agreements; licensing, copyright and distribution agreements. Extensive experience with securities and capital markets (public and private offerings of debt/equity); private equity (represented both fund sponsors and investors). |
Full-time independent ADR neutral since 2001. Appointed in more than 100 international and domestic cases of varying size and complexity (up to 9 figures), covering a broad legal spectrum, including: telecommunications, energy, mergers & acquisitions, business associations (corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures), finance (commercial/investment banking), accounting, intellectual property, franchise, licensing, pharmaceuticals/biotechnology, employment, technology, sale of goods, real property, accounting, appraisal rights, corporate governance, class actions, construction, communication, information technology, maritime, valuations, insurance. Served as Chairman, Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator in cases under AAA, ICDR, ICC, CPR, UNCITRAL Rules and ad hoc arbitrations. Certified IMI Mediator. |
Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators |
Bar Admissions – New York and Ontario |
Corporate Commercial, Employment, Healthcare, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Technology, Wills and Estates | ||
Goepel, Richard B.T. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
The Honourable Richard B.T. Goepel is Senior Counsel in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group where he focuses on arbitration, mediation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution and providing strategic advice in litigation matters. Rick returned to Watson Goepel following his retirement from the BC Court of Appeal in August 2022. Rick was admitted to the BC Bar in 1974. In 1984 he co-founded Watson Goepel Maledy, now Watson Goepel. During his career as a lawyer, he practiced mainly in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance law. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was recognized as a leading litigator and appeared in all courts of British Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999. In September 2001, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In 2013, after 12 years on the trial court, he was appointed to the BC Court of Appeal. During his 21-year judicial career, he presided over all manner of cases, including criminal, civil and family claims. He is highly regarded as an effective and respected decision-maker. Rick is actively involved in arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. With his wealth of experience and knowledge gained from serving on the bench for over 20 years, Rick brings unique insight, objectivity and thoughtful guidance to all forms of alternative dispute resolution. He also provides strategic counsel and assistance to lawyers on a wide range of litigation issues including court applications, potential appeals and the conduct of mock hearings as part of the preparation for court appearances at all levels of court. In his free time, Mr. Goepel is an avid runner and a voracious reader. For the last 15 years he has been on a quixotic quest to run faster than his age in the annual Sun Run. |
Rick has participated as counsel or mediator in more than 50 mediations. Rick has attended Mediation and Arbitration CLE courses. As a Supreme Court judge Rick has rendered decisions in over 1,000 matters and also conducted numerous settlement conferences. He has also sat on approximately 450 appeals and written over 135 appeal decisions. |
Member, Law Society of British Columbia |
Bachelor of Arts, University of British Columbia, 1969 |
Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Sports, Wills and Estates | ||
Goldstein, Marc J. | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
New York based international arbitrator annually ranked by Chambers Global and Chambers USA among top 25 US international arbitrators (in Band 1/Band 2), and recognized annually as a leading arbitrator by Who’s Who Legal. Creator and author of the widely-read Arbitration Commentaries blog. Friend to Canada’s arbitration community since 2004. 40-year career as advocate in complex litigation and arbitration. |
Accomplished as an arbitrator and mediator in high value/high complexity disputes involving sophisticated parties and counsel. Essays published on Arbitration Commentaries (2009-present) are praised for insights and creativity. Has taught in the international arbitration professional development course at Osgoode Hall Law School for 15 years, and in the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society Gold Standard course since the course was established. Certified as a Mediator by the International Mediation Institute. More information on CV. |
Member of New York International Arbitration Club, Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, ICC US Arbitration Committee, American Law Institute, College of Commercial Arbitrators, other organizations in arbitration community. List of scholarly articles on website and in CV. Essays published on Arbitration Commentaries are retrievable on the site (www.arbblog.lexmarc.us). More information on CV. |
Bachelor of Arts Degree, University of Pennsylvania Juris Doctor Degree, University of Virginia School of Law |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Franchise, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Gruber, David E. | Domestic Arbitration, Expedited Procedures Arbitrator, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
David Gruber is Co-Head of Bennett Jones’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. He practices in the areas of corporate/commercial litigation, arbitration, restructuring and insolvency, and class actions. As well as his court experience, David has significant experience as counsel in both international and domestic arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes, and in negotiating and advising on dispute settlements. He has acted for corporations of all sizes, professional firms, governments, public and quasi-public institutions and for private individuals. David has presented and written on arbitration topics in several forums, and is an adjunct professor at the Allard School of Law at UBC, where he has taught administrative law and the law of damages. David completed an undergraduate degree in architecture and worked for a time on the editorial staff of an architectural magazine before entering law school. Following graduation, he articled and practiced with a prominent litigation boutique in Victoria, British Columbia. He did a master’s degree in law at the University of Cambridge in 1998. Since then, he has practiced with prominent firms in Vancouver and Toronto. In 2010 David was awarded a diploma in International Commercial Arbitration and became a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society. |
David has significant experience as counsel in both international and domestic arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes, and in negotiating and advising on dispute settlements. He has acted for corporations of all, sizes, professional firms, governments, public and quasi-public institutions and for private individuals. He completed the Charter Institute of Arbitrators Diploma course in 2010. |
Ranked, Litigation: General Commercial – B.C., Chambers Canada |
McGill University, B.Sc. (Arch.), 1992 University of Victoria, JD, 1996 University of Cambridge, LL.M. 1998 Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, DiplCArb, 2010 |
Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Financial Services, Government, Indigenous, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Technology, Wills and Estates | ||
Gunn, Angus M. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Angus Gunn is a partner at Eyford Partners. His practice emphasizes commercial dispute resolution. He has supplemented extensive arbitral training and education with a range of dispute resolution experience:
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University of British Columbia, BA, 1990 |
Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Maritime, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Wills and Estates | ||
Haigh, David R. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
While David practices in Commercial, Construction & Energy Litigation, his primary focus is in Domestic and International Arbitration both as arbitrator and counsel. David is associated with arbitration centers in Canada and internationally and is regularly involved in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. |
David has served as an advocate and arbitrator in the field of international commercial arbitration with extensive experience as an arbitrator on international commercial arbitration and investor-state panels. He has acted as counsel on a wide variety of arbitration claims, including ad hoc, institutional, private and investor-state disputes. David served as the national chairman of the Canadian ICC Committee for 6 years, is a director of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators for many years and is a Chartered Arbitrator as well as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also a shareholder of the LCIA and an ongoing member of the ICC Commission. David is a panellist with numerous well recognized international arbitration centres. Arbitrations in recent years have taken him to Sweden, Bermuda, Singapore, Holland, Switzerland, Dubai, Florida, Texas, New York and California involving parties from the U.S., U.K., Czech Republic, Turkey, Iran, Taiwan, Ukraine, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Germany, Yemen and China. David has represented both claimants and states in various investor state matters. |
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University of Toronto, LL.B., 1964 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Intellectual Property and Licensing | ||
Happ, Richard | International Arbitration | Hamburg | State of Hamburg | DE (Germany) | ➽ |
Dr Richard Happ is partner of Luther, based in the Hamburg office and co-head of the firm’s arbitration practice Group. He has as counsel or arbitrator in cases under the DIS, ICC, SCC, Uncitral, ad hoc and ICSID rules. Among those cases were disputes arising out of international sales contracts, oil and gas joint ventures, service and marketing contracts, commercial production agreements, power plant construction and foreign investments. His practice focuses on national and international arbitration in general and investment arbitration in particular. Dr Happ speaks German and English and has conducted arbitral proceedings in each of these languages. Dr Happ is co-chair of the DIS40, the German Institution of Arbitration’s Young Arbitrators Initiative, and co-founder of the Hamburg Arbitration Circle. He is ranked/listed for arbitration and dispute resolution in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and Legal500. |
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1st State Exam, University of Kiel, 1996 |
Corporate Commercial | ||
Henriques, Duarte G. | International Arbitration | Lisboa | Estremadura | PT (Portugal) | ➽ |
Duarte Henriques is a lawyer and arbitrator based in Lisbon – Portugal. Since 1990, he has acted as both counsel and arbitrator in a number of litigation and arbitration cases related to investment disputes, banking & finance, corporate, commercial, distribution and construction disputes. Duarte Henriques has a strong experience in advising and securing “third-party funding” for clients. Duarte Henriques advises major banking and finance institutions, insurance companies, companies in the energy sector, bio-pharmaceutical companies, and technology / software solution providers in litigation and arbitration disputes. Duarte Henriques has also a solid experience in the transactional practice. He regularly advises clients in matters related to corporate law, mergers and acquisitions / joint ventures, construction, commercial law (including distribution, franchising, and licensing), labour law, procurement, and real estate (see list of relevant matters attached). He is ranked as Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal and recommended by “WWL” Arbitration 2019 as a “go-to lawyer in Portugal, standing out for his extensive knowledge of commercial and investment treaty disputes.” |
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Advanced PIDA Training – International Commercial Arbitration – ICC Paris (Oct. 2013) Advanced Training PIDA – Advanced Training in International Commercial Arbitration – ICC Paris 2013 Advanced Practice Seminar – Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) – Como, Italy 2014 Advanced Practice Seminar – Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) – Badenweiler, Germany, 2015 Advanced Practice Seminar – Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) – Frankfurt, Germany, 2018 Graduate in International Trade Law (Contracts and International Arbitration) – 2004-2005 Graduate in Accounting, Financial Analysis and Business Assessment at “Universidade Nova de Lisboa” – 1998 Law degree at Faculty of Law of University of Lisbon, 1988 |
Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Technology | |||
Henry, Arlene H. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
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University of British Columbia, B. Comm., 1982 |
Corporate Commercial, Indigenous, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Wills and Estates | ||
Holmes, Robert D. | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Holmes is a commercial and civil litigation and arbitration lawyer in private practice with over 41 years’ experience at the B.C. Bar in complex legal disputes, including business disputes, claims involving the government and its agencies (including constitutional and administrative law reviews), shareholder actions, securities litigation, real estate, insolvency and reorganization, commercial tenancies, partnerships, professional liability, and construction disputes. He has appeared at all levels of courts in British Columbia, as well as Canada, including several appearances in the Supreme Court of Canada, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, Tax Court, as well as numerous tribunals, including the Securities Commission, the Vancouver Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange, the IDA, IIROC, municipal councils and various professional organizations. He has conducted Arbitration and Mediation proceedings and appeared as counsel for parties in the same. He has also served both as a panel member and as Chair of tribunals to which he has been appointed. Mr. Holmes is formerly an Adjunct Professor of Law at UBC (Creditors Remedies) and has lectured and published widely on Commercial Law, Shareholder’s Disputes, Professional Liability, Commercial Tenancy Disputes, Dispute Resolution Practice and Procedure, Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties. |
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LL.B., University of British Columbia, 1981 |
Accounting, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Government, Labour, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
Hopkins, Julie | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Julie Hopkins is an independent commercial arbitrator based in Calgary and is a member of Western Arbitration Chambers. Prior to sitting full time as an arbitrator, Julie was counsel with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP where she practiced commercial litigation, arbitration and administrative law for more than 26 years. She has experience across a variety of industries including electricity generation and transmission, oil and gas, (including oilsands, pipelines and LNG), construction, aviation, trucking, real-estate development, cannabis and health care as well as franchise disputes. Julie is experienced with multi-party disputes and has been appointed to domestic and international arbitrations. She is on the rosters of a number of arbitral institutions, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (“CIArb”) as is the current Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator’s Canada Branch. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Government, Healthcare, Insurance and Reinsurance, Labour, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
Hornstein, Val D. | International Arbitration | San Francisco | CAL (California) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Hornstein Law: Founder & Managing Attorney, San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA; 7/92 – Present. AV-Preeminent® and SuperLawyer® ranked. Firm provides business, commercial and technology law advice and counsel to a variety of clients. Specific areas of expertise include intellectual property, healthcare, licensing, strategic alliances, marketing and distribution, real estate; litigation and dispute resolution. Arbitrator and mediator. |
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George Washington university law school J.D., 1985 Colgate university, A.B. English, 1978 dean’s List; Varsity Baseball, Freshman Football, Rugby teams; Writer, Colgate News; London Study Grp. Data Processing Systems Education, 1979 – 1984 programming languages: Cobol, Fortran, Algol and various others; Systems Design & Analysis: Network Design & Performance Analysis; Network Architecture; Local Area Networks; Telecommunications Systems; Database Design & Analysis; On-Line Transaction Processing |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Entertainment, Financial Services, Franchise, Healthcare, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Howie, Rachel | Domestic Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Rachel Howie is the deputy lead of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in Canada and co-leader for the national ADR and Arbitration group. Her practice focuses on international and domestic arbitration and litigation, primarily in the energy, mining and natural resources industries. Rachel has experience advising clients at all stages of a project or transaction to help them navigate how to protect and operate their business from a disputes perspective. She frequently advises domestic and international clients on the drafting of dispute resolution clauses in transactional documents, works with clients on ADR mechanisms to resolve or prevent disputes, and advocates on her clients’ behalf in arbitration and litigation proceedings. In her arbitration practice, Rachel has acted on matters involving issues across Canada and in South America, Central Asia and South-East Asia. She has experience under several institutional rules, along with ad hoc proceedings. She is highly regarded for her attention to detail and ability to also take a “big-picture” view. Her clients appreciate her practical advice, and solutions on which they can act that work for their commercial goals. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the NextGen Roster of Arbitrators at Arbitration Place and is a listed arbitrator at other institutions. Rachel is a frequent speaker and author on matters of international and domestic arbitration, and is a contributor to the Arbitration Matters newsletter. In her commercial litigation practice, Rachel has appeared before all levels of Court in Alberta. Rachel has experience with disputes across a range of energy, mining and natural resource matters, including renewables. This has involved industry relationships and agreements including joint venture agreements, supply agreements, farmout agreements, ownership and operating agreements, electricity purchase and sale agreements, oil and gas asset purchase and sale agreements, royalty agreements, services agreements, seismic licensing agreements, and confidentiality agreements. She also acts in matters involving environmental issues, such as claims for contribution to remediation and issues relating to water and soil contamination, along with matters of accounting and audit rights, purchase price adjustment disputes, claims of force majeure, disputes arising from production on aboriginal lands, shareholder disputes, product liability claims and distribution agreements. |
Accelerated route to Fellowship, (International Arbitration) Course, Charter Institute of Arbitrators, 2020. Panel Training, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, 2018 Acted as Counsel in several domestic and international arbitrations, both ad hoc and under institutional rules. |
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Co-Chair Canadian Advisory Board, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (2020-present), and former Canada Advisory Board member (2017-2020) Former Global Advisory Board member, ICDR Young & International, (2017-2020) Former Co-Chair, ABA Section of International Law, International Investment and Development Committee (2015-2017) and former Vice-Chair (2013-2015) Member, Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society Member, International Bar Association Member, ICC Canada Arbitration Committee Member, Institute for Transnational Arbitration Member, ADR Institute of Canada Member, Law Society of Alberta Member, Law Society of Ontario |
University of Calgary, 2012, LL.M. University of Ottawa, 2006, LL.B. University of Calgary, 2003, BA (History) and BA (International Relations), 2006 |
Corporate Commercial, Energy, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Transportation | ||
Huberman, Marvin J. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Marvin is a mediator, municipal ombudsman, and arbitrator, and is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in civil litigation. He is a former administrative law judge, and adjunct law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught legal ethics and trial advocacy. Marvin has expertise in corporate/commercial litigation and administrative and public law, including cases involving banking, contracts, labour, corporate and shareholder remedies, securities, tax, insurance, fiduciary duties, torts, transportation law, professional liability and ethics, and constitutional/human rights. He has extensive experience with administrative/regulatory matters and constitutional/human rights disputes. He served as the Vice-Chair of the Ontario Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal. Marvin was appointed by the Chief Justice as a member of the Civil Rules Committee (Comité des règles en matière civile), pursuant to the Courts of Justice Act (Ont.). For over 30 years, Mr. Huberman has litigated, mediated, adjudicated as a former Vice-Chair of the Ontario Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal, and/or arbitrated hundreds of disputes involving various forms of construction and building contracts, new home warranty and Tarion issues, owners, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, architects and engineers, federal, provincial, and municipal contracts, quantum meruit, damages, concurrent liability in contract and tort, tendering, surety bonds, insurance, liens, holdbacks, change orders, setoff, non-payment, trusts, and alternative dispute resolution. |
Marvin holds a Master of Laws Degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he served as a negotiation and mediation coach. He has also served as a civil litigation and advocacy instructor at the Law Society of Upper Canada, Bar Admission Course. He was awarded the designation of Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.) in 2015. Mr. Huberman has also taught, spoken about, and published in these areas throughout his professional career, including as a columnist for the trade magazines Purchasing B2B and Materials, Management and Distribution – MM&D. Marvin has served as litigation counsel, mediator, and arbitrator in cases involving farm debts, livestock, advertising, marketing, and sales of goods, including farm products, and in the interpretation and application of relevant statutory provisions. Marvin was recently appointed as an arbitrator by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission. Marvin has been appointed to the FINRA roster of arbitrators, which is the largest securities and business dispute resolution forum in the United States among investors, brokerage firms and individual brokers. Marvin co-authored a book entitled “A Puisne Judges’ Guide to Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Handbook for Canadian Judges on ADR in the Courts,” and published several articles, including “Pre-Trial Conferences and Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques: Maximizing Settlement Potential,” and “ADR in the United States Federal Administrative Justice System – The Administrative Conference of the United States.” His Master of Laws thesis, “Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution Into Administrative Justice Systems: Improving Society and Justice” was written in consultation with the Deputy Attorney General of Canada and the Department of Justice Canada. Marvin has recently published through Irwin Law, “A Practitioner’s Guide to Commercial Arbitration”, which offers clear and practical advice and guidance on how to conduct arbitrations fairly, impartially, efficiently and effectively, in domestic and international forums. Marvin is also a founding member of the Chief Justice of Ontario’s Committee on Professionalism in the Legal Profession (2001). He was awarded The Lawyer International – Global Award- 2017- Law Firm of the Year- Commercial Arbitration – Canada. Marvin was the recipient of the 2017 Corporate International Magazine Global Award: Partnership Disputes Mediator of the Year in Canada. Marvin served as an acclaimed member of the Executive Committee of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society. He is the current President of the ADR Institute of Ontario, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternate Dispute Resolution (FAIADR). Visit Marvin’s website at www.marvinhuberman.com |
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Corporate Commercial, Employment, Government, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury, Real Estate | ||
Jeanniot, Michel A. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Montreal | QC (Quebec) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Michel Jeanniot is a member of the Quebec and Canadian Bar association (1985), and New-York bar association (2003) always in private practice with a focus and expertise primarily in the areas of commercial, civil, banking and insurance law. Michel is called upon to offer numerous services to banks, trust companies, insurance companies and other financial institutions, and to the business community at large. He also provides legal counsel in commercial and real estate law through the referral service of the Bar of Montreal. He acts as legal counsel for several offshore business corporations (Jersey Island & Bahamas), US constituted entities, primarily Delaware and Florida, as well as European business corporations (SARLs). Michel has pleaded before the courts of all Quebec jurisdictions as well as the Federal and the Supreme Court of Canada. A seasoned litigator, negotiation remains his preferred approach to problem solving. During the summer of 2005, Me Jeanniot was qualified as Mediator & Arbitrator and since, accepted the presidency of the Canadian Commercial Arbitration Center(www.ccac-adr.org), the largest such organization in Québec which specializes in alternate dispute resolution programs. Simultaneously, he was a founding partner of Jeanniot & Associates LLP (www.jeanniot.ca), a boutique law firm servicing the general business community including chartered banks, trusts, financial institutions, private investment banks, insurance companies. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Government, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Real Estate, Sports, Transportation, Wills and Estates | |||
Jensen, Carsten | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Carsten is a partner at JSS Barristers, a Calgary based dispute resolution boutique law firm. Carsten has specific arbitration experience in matters involving contractual purchase price adjustments, construction, environmental reclamation, insurance coverage, shareholder and partnership disputes, corporate disputes, intellectual property and international commercial agreements. Carsten has served as arbitrator in both ad hoc and administered proceedings, including under the ICC Rules, the ADRIC Rules, the CCDC 40 Rules, and the VanIAC Domestic Arbitration Rules. Carsten was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta from 2006 to 2013 and was President in 2013. Between 1998 and 2000 Carsten was senior legal counsel with the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, tasked with awarding compensation as a result of Iraq’s illegal invasion and occupation of Kuwait. Carsten is a Fellow of the worldwide London, UK-based Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Carsten is also the Chair of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Institute, which is concerned with the regulation and discipline of its members. |
Achieved Fellow status of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2013. Completed Law Society of Alberta training for adjudicators (to serve on its roster of adjudicators in disciplinary and other matters), including training on conducting hearings and writing decisions. |
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1990 Bachelor of Laws Degree University of Alberta (Dean’s List 1990) 1987 Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours University of Alberta Political Science Major |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Insurance and Reinsurance, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Technology, Transportation | ||
Jones, Doug | International Arbitration | Sydney | New South Wales | AT (Austria) | ➽ |
Doug Jones AO, is a leading independent international commercial and investor-state arbitrator. Doug has an office in Sydney and Toronto, and is a door tenant at Atkin Chambers in London. He is also an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. He has been involved in over 140 arbitrations which include construction, infrastructure, energy, commodities, intellectual property, joint venture, and investor-state disputes spanning over 30 jurisdictions around the world. He has extensive experience as arbitrator under the ICC, LCIA, AAA, ICDR, KCAB, AIAC (formerly KLRCA), CRCICA, SIAC, VIAC, SCC, DIAC, ACICA, Resolution Institute, AMINZ, European Development Fund Arbitration and Conciliation Rules, as well as the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, in disputes of values exceeding some billions $US. |
Doug has had over 40 years prior experience in project work, as an international transactional and disputes project lawyer. As an Arbitrator, Doug has been involved in over 140 arbitrations as Chair, party-appointed and sole. Doug is the Australian government nominee on the ICSID panel of arbitrators. He sits regularly as arbitrator in many jurisdictions, including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, USA, Canada, UAE, Qatar, India, UK, Austria, France, and Korea. Recent arbitral appointments include (Please refer to https://dougjones.info/ for complete listing) Position – Seat – Rules – Dispute |
Doug has published and presented extensively and holds professorial appointments at Queen Mary College, University of London and Melbourne University Law School. Some of the highlights of Professor Jones’ professional career include (Please refer to https://dougjones.info/ for complete listing)
Doug was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012 in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his distinguished service to the law and leadership in arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, policy reform, and national and international professional organisations. In 2018, Doug was awarded the John Shaw Medal in recognition of his lasting contribution to the road transport industry in Australia and internationally. Doug’s expertise in International Arbitration and Construction has regularly been recognized by his peers.
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B.L., University of Queensland, 1972 |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Government, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Securities, Transportation | ||
Kahn, Lawrence A | Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Larry Kahn graduated from UBC Law School in 1971 and was called to the British Columbia Bar in May 1972. Mr. Kahn has practiced exclusively in the area of Family Law for the past 39 years, including divorce, custody, child and spousal support, property division, complex financial matters, business valuations, corporate reorganizations and pension division issues, separation, cohabitation and marriage agreements. As part of his family law practice, Mr. Kahn has substantial experience in adoption and reproductive technology law. He has provided expert opinions to other family law lawyers and the bar. Mr. Kahn has extensive appellate court experience and has provided expert testimony in complex fee disputes. He has chaired and is a frequent contributor to CLE programs, including the introduction to the Family Relations Act in 1980 and was a founding editor of the Family Law Agreement Manual. |
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Mr. Kahn has been listed in the Canadian edition of the Best Lawyers in America since 2007. This publication is regarded as the preeminent referral guide to the legal profession in North America, with lawyers appearing in it having been recommended by their professional peers.
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Queen’s Counsel, 2008 |
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Kantor, Mark | International Arbitration | Washington | DC (District Of Columbia) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Mark Kantor currently serves as an arbitrator in international investment and commercial disputes. Until he retired from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, he was a partner in the Project Finance Group of the Firm. He teaches courses in both international arbitration and international business transactions as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment (a joint undertaking of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University). Additionally, Mr. Kantor is Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management. Mr. Kantor is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, Chair of the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee and a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Global Arbitration Review, the Board of Editors of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, and the ADR Advisory Board of the International Law Institute. Among other publications, Mr. Kantor is the author of Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (Kluwer 2008). |
Arbitrator in over 50 commercial and investment arbitrations. Member, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association. Fellow, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Chair, Washington, D.C. Chapter (2008-2010). Chair,D.C. Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee. Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators. Member, ADR Advisory Board, International Law Institute, Washington, D.C. Member of the AAA Large Complex Disputes, Commercial and International Panels, the ICC database of arbitrators, the AAA/ICDR Energy Arbitrators’ List, the SIAC panel of arbitrators, the HKIAC panel of arbitrators, the LCIA list of arbitrators, the KL Regional Centre for Arbitration, the National Futures Association roster of arbitrators and CPR Panels for Banking and Finance and International Neutrals. |
Until he retired from the Firm at the age of 44, Mark Kantor was a partner in the Corporate and Project Finance Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, acting as the lead partner in Milbank’s involvement in a number of prominent domestic and international project financings, including several “Deals of the Year” named by trade periodicals throughout the 1990s. His practice combined Wall Street expertise with Washington experience. Kantor has represented investment banks, commercial banks, sponsors, institutional investors and government authorities in complex financing and investment transactions, and he has considerable experience in the energy, power, telecommunications, aircarrier, satellite, financial services and leasing industries. Kantor also has represented financial institutions and users in connection with numerous complex credit, interest rate and foreign exchange structured finance and derivatives transactions. During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990’s, he was the U.S. head of Milbank’s Asian Crisis Team, and has represented public sector and private sector parties in numerous transactions, workouts and bankruptcies, both domestic and international. In addition, he has represented U.S., Japanese and Canadian government agencies and multilateral financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions, workouts, bankruptcies and international reschedulings. In 1990, Kantor served as the first outside General Counsel of the RTC Oversight Board, the U.S. Federal agency with policy oversight responsibility for the savings & loan crisis. |
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 1979 with honors University of Michigan, Institute for Public Policy Studies Phi Beta Kappa |
Accounting, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Financial Services, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Technology, Transportation | ||
Kaplan, Neil | International Arbitration | Central | Hong Kong | HK (Hong Kong) | ➽ |
Neil Kaplan was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1965 and he practised in London until 1980 when he joined the Attorney General’s Chambers in Hong Kong. In 1983 he commenced practice at the Hong Kong Bar having become a Queen’s Counsel in 1982. Mr. Kaplan has also been admitted to the Victorian Bar in Australia and the New York Bar. Neil Kaplan was Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre from 1991 – 2004 and was President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators from May 1999 until May 2000. Mr. Kaplan is a full-time practising arbitrator with Chambers in both England and Hong Kong. From March 1990 until the end of 1994 he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. He was the judge in charge of the Construction and Arbitration list. From 1994 until the end of 1999 he was the Convenor of the Dispute Review Group for Hong Kong’s new airport. Mr. Kaplan was the Chairman of Hong Kong’s WTO Review Body on Bid Challenges from 2000 – 2004 and is currently Chairman of Hong Kong’s Telecommunications (Competition Provision) Appeal Board. As of November 2009 Mr. Kaplan became an International Arbitration Advisor to the Australian Firm Malleson Stephen Jaques in their Hong Kong Office. |
Neil Kaplan is a Council member of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). In addition to being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Mr. Kaplan is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and a panelist at many arbitration centres including CIETAC and a member of the LCIA. Since 1995 Mr. Kaplan has been in full time practice as an arbitrator and has administered several hundred cases as co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator or chairman of an arbitral tribunal. He has conducted a wide range of commercial, infrastructural and investment treaty disputes. These have been under the rules of ICC, HKIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, SCC, ICSID and CIETAC. Mr. Kaplan has conducted ad hoc cases as well as cases administered by the PCA and other institutions. He has conducted numerous ICC arbitrations. In all, Mr. Kaplan has conducted arbitrations in at least 15 different jurisdictions in, England and Hong Kong, he has also conducted arbitrations in USA, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Sweden, Malaysia, Korea, Laos, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Dubai, Australia, Indonesia and China. |
In June 2001 Mr. Kaplan was awarded a CBE for services to international arbitration. In 2007 he was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR. Mr. Kaplan has co-authored two books on arbitration in Hong Kong and China, published by Sweet & Maxwell, and has recently co-authored Model Law Decisions (published by Kluwer), a book on cases which apply the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. He has also published many articles. Mr. Kaplan was General Editor of Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide to Arbitration in 2003, published by Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell Asia. |
St. Paul’s School, London, 1956-1961 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance | ||
Kaplan, William C. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Bill now focuses his practice on arbitration and mediation work as a neutral. He has been engaged on a variety of matters reflecting his experience in corporate/commercial matters, restructuring, securities legislation, real estate and development, and a broad range of business-related issues. Bill has appeared before all levels of the Court system in British Columbia, including the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as appearing before numerous administrative tribunals, private arbitration panels, and mediations. He is experienced in alternative dispute resolution and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Bill provides legal services through WCK Law Corporation. |
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Admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – 2016 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Keith, Rose | Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Rose is Associate Counsel with Harper Grey and brings over 25 years of experience to her broad civil litigation practice. Her focus on Workplace Law has provided her with extensive experience advising both employers and employees on employment related matters including wrongful dismissal, constructive dismissal and human rights. Her general civil litigation practice has included plaintiff’ s personal injury matters relating to sexual abuse claims, UMP claims, defamation, misappropriation, contractual breaches and sales of businesses. Her commercial litigation experience has exposed her to a broad spectrum of maters including real estate disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, injunctions, fraud and product liability litigation. Rose is a member of the Mediate BC roster and has experience adjudicating claims through being a member of the CRT. Rose also has experience arbitrating claims both as counsel and as an arbitrator. |
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Panelist, Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) |
Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 2019 |
Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Indigenous, Personal Injury, Sports, Wills and Estates | ||
Kent, Simon | Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
I have been a practicing lawyer since 1997 and began an employment law focused law firm, Kent Employment Law, in 2003. For the past 20 years I have participated in mediations with both my employee and employer clients and have been conducting my own mediations since 2018. |
I mediate all workplace / employment law matters, disability insurance claims, human rights claims, and statutory disputes under employment-related statutes such as the Employment Standards Act of BC or the Canada Labour Code. |
Mediate BC’s Court Mediation Program which included 10 Small Claims Court Mediation Sessions; Fundamentals of Mediation Course (Continuing Legal Education Society of BC (“CLE”) Advanced Civil Mediation Course (CLE) Advanced Mediator Clinic (CLE) Advanced Negotiation Strategies for Lawyers (CLE) Asserting Yourself in Conflict Situations (JIBC) |
Carleton University – Honours B.A (Legal Studies) completed 1993 University of Saskatchewan (LL.B) completed 1996 British Columbia Institute of Technology (Financial Management Diploma) completed 1997 PLTC completed in 1997 (May 1997 call date) |
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Knutson, William E. | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
A Partner at Clyde & Co., Bill is a highly regarded civil litigator who has conducted many trials and appeals at all levels of British Columbia courts. These cases have involved personal injury, defamation, Family Compensation Act, domestic matters, real estate litigation, professional negligence, insider trading issues, partnership and agency disputes, shareholder disputes, products liability, fire insurance, sale of goods, landlord and tenant, estate litigation, wills variation, builders’ lien and construction disputes. William Knutson, K.C. has conducted many appeals in the B.C. Court of Appeal involving a broad variety of civil litigation issues. He represented clients in proceedings before the B.C. Securities Commission and at environmental tribunals as well as at professional disciplinary hearings before the Law Society of British Columbia, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Architectural Institute of British Columbia, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. |
As an arbitrator, William Knutson, KC is a member of the B.C. Panel for Domestic Commercial Arbitrations with the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre
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William Knutson was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2004. Bill has authored articles for university law journals, continuing legal education publications and trade journals. He is a frequent lecturer and a member of several committees and associations including the Law Society of British Columbia, Canadian Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association and the Vancouver Bar Association. |
LL.M., London School of Economics, 1978 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance | ||
Kohm, Joel B. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Joel is a retired member of the bars of British Columbia and Ontario with over 35 years of experience in civil dispute matters primarily concerning commercial contract, non-union employment matters and insurance claims. As counsel, Joel has represented plaintiffs/claimants and defendant/respondents at hearings, trials and on appeals, before administrative tribunals, and in ADR proceedings. Joel has long been active in legal education. He was Deputy Director of Education for the Law Society of Upper Canada (now, Ontario). He has created and led numerous litigation- and ADRC related workshops for law societies and bar associations across Canada. He has taught at the Bar Admission Course in Ontario and the Professional Legal Training Course in British Columbia. Joel has been recognized by The Advocates’ Society (Ontario) with its Distinction in Teaching Award. |
Joel holds a certificate in mediation training from the Dispute Resolution Center of King County (Seattle, WA) and a Q.Arb designation in arbitration from the ADR Institute of Canada (Vancouver, BC). He was co-chair of the arbitration track of workshops at the 2019 Annual Symposium of the ADR Institute of BC. More recently, he has acted as sole arbitrator in auto valuation and government contract payment disputes. He as also acted as chair of a 3-person discipline panel concerning an amateur sport matter. As counsel, he has appeared in over 200 mediations. |
Associations ADR Institute of Canada ADR Institute of British Columbia Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution The Advocates’ Society The Legal Writing Institute Law Society of British Columbia (2008) Law Society of Ontario (1973) Awards The Advocates’ Society (2005) – Excellence in Teaching Publications Created 100+ workshop manuals including mock cases and litigation skills instruction for civil litigation workshops. |
University of Toronto – BSc (1968) University of Windsor – JD (1971) |
Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Financial Services, Insurance and Reinsurance | ||
Konrad, Christian W. | International Arbitration | Vienna | Osterreich | AU (Australia) | ➽ |
Christian W. Konrad has represented international organizations and businesses in a broad range of arbitration and litigation disputes. The disputes involved long-term energy contracts, complex construction contracts, concession agreements, entitlement to natural resources, immunity from jurisdiction, infrastructure projects, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He regularly advises clients on the protection of their investments and on the enforcement of arbitral awards and court judgments. Furthermore, he serves as Sole and Co-Arbitrator as well as Chairman to the Arbitral Tribunal in arbitration proceedings under the auspices of numerous arbitration institutions. He regularly publishes and lectures about his field of expertise. Prior to founding Konrad & Partners, Christian W. Konrad worked as Counsel in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s International Arbitration Group in London and Vienna. He also acted as Senior Associate in the International Dispute Resolution team of the Austrian Advocates Alliance, and was General Counsel in a Real Estate Development and Construction Company for many years. |
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Qualified Lawyer Transfer Test (Solicitor) |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Real Estate, Wills and Estates | ||
Krouse III, Allen J. | International Arbitration | New Orleans | LA (Louisiana) | US (United States) | ➽ |
A.J. Krouse is a founding member of Frilot LLC. Mr. Krouse was selected for the 2011, 2017 and 2020 City Business’ “Leadership in Law” Award, recognizing the Top 50 lawyers in New Orleans. He has been recognized as a Louisiana Super lawyer and has been designated The Best Lawyers in America award for 2019. Frilot LLC has been recognized as one of the “Best Law Firms in Louisiana First-Tier Rankings” in 2016 – U.S. News & World Report. He concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, including health care, construction, commercial, employment, class actions/mass torts, environmental and maritime law. Mr. Krouse has been appointed as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Louisiana since 2006. He also represents clients in various forms of alternative dispute resolution and has been selected to arbitrate and mediate disputes for other litigants. He has been selected as a court appointed special master. He was designated as a “Master Mediator” by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in 2015. In 2020, Mr. Krouse was named to the panel at FedArb Inc. (FedArb) (www.fedarb.com). For over a decade, FedArb’s group of 50+ former federal judges and distinguished Neutrals have successfully mediated and arbitrated complex civil cases typically achieving results more efficiently and cost-effectively than through litigation. He is a frequent speaker on electronic discovery, mediation and arbitration issues. He is a trainer of mediators and arbitrators and on the faculty of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) University and American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Dispute Resolution Service. He serves as Chair of AHLA’s Program Planning Committee. Mr. Krouse served in the United States Army, Military Police Corps, from 1977 to 1981 as a Platoon Leader, Executive Officer and Battalion Adjutant. He was Honorably Discharged as a Captain in the United States Army in September 1981. He served as a federal judicial extern, and federal judicial law clerk from 1983 to 1985 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He has been selected by the United States District Court Western District of Pennsylvania to the eDiscovery Special Masters’ Panel. He is a co-author of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitrations (4th Ed. 2017) |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Energy, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Personal Injury, Sports, Technology, Transportation | ||
Lahlou, Yasmine | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Fluent in English, French and Italian, Yasmine Lahlou has over 20 years of experience in international arbitration and litigation and has been with Chaffetz Lindsey since 2009. Initially trained in Paris and admitted in New York, Yasmine is experienced in civil and common law systems. Yasmine has represented clients in arbitration proceedings conducted under the ICC, ICDR, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ad hoc rules. She has acted as a presiding, sole and co‐arbitrator in ICC, SCC, CRCICA (in Cairo) and LCIA arbitrations. Yasmine practiced in Paris for over four years at Castaldi Mourre & Partners, before joining Clifford Chance in New York in 2005. Yasmine has been named one of 17 “Global Elite Thought Leaders” in North America & the Caribbean— a title reserved for the top 2.5% of ranked practitioners considered the “very best by peers and clients, achieving the highest number of recommendations in the research”— by Who’s Who Legal 2023 Arbitration report. Additionally, she has been named number one on the Who’s Who Legal 2019: Future Leaders – Arbitration list for the Americas, and has been recognized in Chambers, Legal 500 and Super Lawyers. Yasmine is a co-editor-in-chief of the ICC’s Dispute Resolution Bulletin Editorial Board. Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, member of the Advisory Council of Africa Arbitration, and retiring member of the board of directors of ArbitralWomen, she is also a Peer Review Board member of the American Review of International Arbitration (ARIA) at Columbia Law School. |
Yasmine has been involved in dozens of arbitrations as counsel representing clients in the broadest range of disputes including energy, mining, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, fashion, retail, or hospitality disputes, conducted under the rules of all major institutions, including in particular the ICC, the LCIA, the AAA/ICDR, the SCC, the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA), the Swiss Rules, and UNCITRAL. She has taught in various arbitration seminars and presented at various CLEs, and is a member of the Faculty of the Roma Tra International Arbitration Certificate. |
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Graduate Legal Studies, University of Texas Austin Law School |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Franchise, Government, Hospitality, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Maritime, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Telecommunications, Transportation | ||
Legler, Thomas | International Arbitration | Geneva | GE | Switzerland | ➽ |
Thomas Legler is a partner and Head of Arbitration in Geneva. His practice focuses on representing clients in international arbitration and acting as arbitrator. In addition, he advises clients in the field of intellectual property (trademarks, patents, copyright), IT and data protection. Swiss Parliament elected him as deputy judge of the Federal Patent Court. |
Experience as Counsel in more than 60 ICC, ad hoc or Swiss arbitration cases; disputes involving intellectual property (in particular pharmaceuticals) and IT, construction projects, sales, distributorship and license agreements, manufacturing contracts, joint ventures, ground handling/aviation agreements. Experience as Arbitrator: in more than 45 ICC, WIPO, DIS, SIAC and Swiss arbitration cases, as chairman, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator. Listed as Panelist on the WTO Indicative List, WIPO List of Neutrals, ICC Arbitrators List (Swiss National Committee), Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC, Tech List) and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC, IP Panelists list) Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration and admission as Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), 2014 Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration and admission as Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), 2013 Course on international arbitration with the Oxford Study Group, U.K., 1995 Attendance to several conferences on arbitration, notably in the framework of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), as well as the Geneva and Bern Group of the Swiss Arbitration Association. |
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Construction, Entertainment, Franchise, Healthcare, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Sports, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Leon, Barry A. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Road Town | Tortola | BVI (Britsh Virgn Isls) | ➽ |
The Honourable Barry Leon is the former Commercial Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, in the Territory of the Virgin Islands, from 2015 to 2018. He is a Member Arbitrator and Mediator who is experienced with matters in corporate and commercial, contract, shareholder and business breakup, intellectual property and technology, natural resources, and construction disputes. He is past Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, ICC Canada. |
The Honourable Barry Leon, independent arbitrator and mediator, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and an International Mediation Institute (IMI) Certified Mediator.. Barry was Presiding Judge, BVI Commercial Court (2015 – 2018), hearing international commercial disputes involving parties from around the world, including shareholder, corporate and contract disputes, insolvency, fraud and asset recovery proceedings, judgment and award enforcement, and arbitration assistance. From 2009 – 2015, Barry was a Partner and Head, International Arbitration Group, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP (Ottawa), and was an arbitrator and mediator. Until 2009 he was Partner, Torys LLP, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice (Toronto), and for many years, Practice Coordinator. A Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Barry has 35+ years’ experience as litigation, arbitration, and mediation counsel, on many complex and significant cases involving many industries including financial services, natural resources, energy, technology, intellectual property, manufacturing, and construction. He is past Chair, Arbitration Committee, ICC Canada. Barry is a non-practising member of the Ontario Bar. |
2022, shortlisted, GAR’s ‘best prepared’ arbitrator. 2013, CPR “Award – Outstanding Contribution to Diversity in ADR”. Past Chair, Arbitration Committee, ICC Canada. Currently Executive Committee, CanArbWeek; Member, TCAS Arbitration Act Review Committee; Co-Chair, ITA’s Caribbean Task Force; Member; Co-Chairs, Canadian Arbitration Survey; Advisory Board Member, International Trust Arbitration Organisation; Director, International Law Association – Canada; Vice Chair and Branch Committee Member, Caribbean Branch, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR;ILA International Commercial Arbitration Committee, North America Committee, Campaign for Greener Arbitrations, CBA International Law Section, BVI Arbitration Group, International Arbitration Club of New York, LCIA, ASIL, and New York International Arbitration Center. Publications and ‘directory’ listings on web-bios. See: https://www.arbitrationplace.com/barry-leon and The Honourable Barry Leon (33bedfordrow.co.uk) |
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Accounting, Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Entertainment, Franchise, Government, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Levin, Richard C. | International Arbitration | Dallas | TX (Texas) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Richard’s practice is directed to international arbitration disputes. He has served as counsel and arbitrator in numerous disputes under the AAA, ICC, ICDR, and ICSID rules. His primary areas of expertise are antitrust, competition, IP, joint ventures, and construction, with industry expertise in energy, chemical, retail, real estate, arts, and sports. He has also handled in the competition area major M&A deals, having led the negotiations and antitrust analyses of international joint ventures and acquisitions, and antitrust compliance issues as well. |
Richard is a member of the International Arbitration Institute, the Association Suisse De L’Arbitrage, International Council for Commercial Arbitration, and other organizations relating to international arbitration, as well as the Arbitration Commission of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC), and a member of the former Task Force on Arbitrating Competition Law Issues and the Task Force on Reducing Time and Expense in Complex Arbitrations. He has been awarded as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as well as “Chartered “status and is on the Presidential Panel of Arbitrators of the CIArb. He has been named to the Panel of International Arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, AAA, and ICC. He is also a member of the Center for American and International Law’s List of Energy Arbitrators and a member of the American Arbitration Association Roster of Neutrals, as well as the LCIA database of arbitrators in London and several other institutions throughout the world, including the HKIAC (Hong Kong), WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization),KLRCA/AIAC (Kuala Lumpur),CRCICA (Cairo),VIAC (Vienna) and the Arbitration Center at the Institute of Modern Arbitration (Moscow). He has been selected as an arbitrator to Court of Arbitration for Art in the Netherlands. Richard has also been named to the Tech List at the SVAMC (Silicon Valley), a peer vetted selection of “the world’s leading technology neutrals,” and is profiled on the Global Arbitration Review Arbitrator Research Tool (GAR ART). Richard was selected to the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) “Panels of Distinguished Neutrals.” Richard has been a member of three person tribunals and acted as sole arbitrator in a number of disputes at the ICDR, ICC, and AAA. He has arbitrated several cases under US and foreign antitrust and competition regimes. He has extensive training through courses sponsored by the AAA, ICDR, ICC and other institutions. As counsel, he has been at the cutting edge in many cases he has handled, including one of the first Chapter 11 NAFTA disputes under ICSID rules and one of the first arbitrations of antitrust/competition issues under ICC rules. He has substantial pro bono experience representing children with learning disabilities in their legal issues with their schools. He is a member of COPAA (Parents, Attorneys, and Advocates). |
International Bar Association and other organizations. See http://www.richardlevinarbitration.com |
Richard received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1967 and his J.D. in 1970 from Georgetown University, where he was a member of the law journal Law and Policy in International Business. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable John C. Godbold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. After his clerkship, he was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City where he practiced in the Litigation Section. He is a member of the Texas Bar and the Dallas Bar Association. |
Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Entertainment, Healthcare, Hospitality, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Sports, Technology, Transportation | ||
Lindsay, Richard B. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Prior to joining CMB in February 2021, Richard practiced as litigation counsel for more than 40 years, obtaining his law degree from the University of British Columbia in 1977. Prior to law, Richard earned a degree in civil engineering and worked as a project engineer with private and government organizations. He remains registered as a Professional Engineer, providing him with insight and expertise in areas such as professional liability of architects and engineers, construction, and property disputes. Throughout his legal career, Richard practiced insurance law and has chaired the preeminent insurance law conference held in BC since its inception over 20 years ago. He has been consistently ranked highly in insurance law by his peers. His practice was centered primarily on complex claims litigation, often in different jurisdictions, covering a wide variety of property, casualty, energy, insurance coverage, products liability, fire losses, engineering and construction matters and all manner of professional liability disputes. He has vast experience in resolution of complex multiparty disputes and has represented clients at all levels of Canadian Courts and all manner of professional liability disputes. Early in his career Richard developed an interest in alternative dispute resolution and became a strong advocate of the benefits of all forms of ADR. As an experienced trial lawyer, he became aware of the pitfalls, risks, and short comings of resorting to trial as the primary vehicle to resolve disagreements. As a result, he completed his training as both a mediator On a personal note, Richard remains involved as a lawyer in instructing magistrates, lawyers and investigators involved in wildlife trafficking on advocacy skills with Lawyers Without Borders in Kenya and Tanzania. |
• Counsel for parties at numerous mediations |
• Appointed Queen’s Counsel 2003 |
• Harvard Law School – Mediating Disputes, 2012 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Insurance and Reinsurance, Transportation | ||
Logan, John Scott | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
John is one of the founding partners of Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP and is the managing partner. John restricts his practice to the areas of construction and commercial litigation and alternate dispute resolution. Over the last 29 years, John has been counsel on a multitude of complex construction and commercial cases in British Columbia. He is frequently asked to act as a mediator, arbitrator or referee in construction and commercial disputes. John is a member of a variety of construction, development and legal associations and is a frequent lecturer at conferences organized by those associations, including the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia and the British Columbia Professional Legal Training Program. He is the author of numerous commercial and construction law articles and other publications. John is committed to the use of alternative dispute resolution and pragmatic, business oriented approaches to the resolution of disputes. John is included in the 2012 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, has an “AV” rating from Martindale Hubbell in construction and commercial litigation, and is rated as one of British Columbia’s top construction lawyers in Best Lawyers. |
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LL.B.: Dalhousie University, 1982 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Logerwell, Donald L | International Arbitration | Seattle | WA (Washington) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Donald Logerwell was a trial lawyer in Seattle for more than thirty years until 2000 when his practice focused on arbitration, mediation and training lawyers to be effective representatives of their clients in both forms of alternative dispute resolution. As a trial lawyer, he tried jury and non-jury cases in state and federal courts and acted as counsel in arbitrations and mediations in construction disputes, intellectual property, products liability, legal malpractice and a wide range of business disputes including partnerships, limited liability companies and corporate dissolutions. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nevada in Reno and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. where he graduated #1 in the evening division and was an editor on the law review. After law school he clerked for The Honorable Eugene A. Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before entering private practice in Seattle. Donald Logerwell was recognized by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine under Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation as one of King County’s Top Lawyers 2010. His peers have given him the highest possible rating, AV Preeminent, in a recent survey by the nation’s leading lawyer rating organization, Martindale Hubbell. |
Donald L. Logerwell serves as an arbitrator/mediator, educator and ADR neutral in a wide range of domestic and international disputes. His ADR practice covers the entire gamut of disputes, small and large, with a focus on efficient and cost effective methods of resolving disputes consistent with the amount at risk for the parties. Don sees himself as a partner with the party representatives and strives to work with them to fashion a process that meets their needs and the needs of their clients. Thirty years (1979-present) of experience serving as a sole arbitrator of a wide variety of commercial disputes in the U.S. and western Canada from various administrative agencies (AAA, CPR, VanIAC, Arbitration Works) and in non-administered arbitrations. First trained in mediation in 1979 by the American Arbitration Association and service since in mediations (both administered and non-administered) of disputes ranging from several million dollars to smaller, home owner-contractor disputes as low as $25,000. Donald Logerwell has attended and taught countless arbitration and mediation courses including the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London) Fellowship course. |
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Mr. Logerwell is a frequent speaker on ADR related topics for the Washington State Bar Association, the King County Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association, the Office of the Attorney General of Washington and the University of Washington among others. He was selected as a member of the National Faculty of the American Arbitration Association and conducted more than fifty AAA sponsored training programs for construction arbitrators in the western United States including Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California. Donald Logerwell selected as one of the Top Lawyers in 2010 by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine in the field of alternative dispute resolution and mediation. |
University of Nevada, B.S. in Mathematics, 1962 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Love, Paul E. | Domestic Arbitration | Campbell River | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Paul Love was called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1985. He had a litigation practice up until approximately 2003; started to work as a mediator in 1993 and an arbitrator in 1995. His practice essentially has been as a full time arbitrator/adjudicator since 2003. Paul Love works as a labour arbitrator, commercial arbitrator and has held a number of different part-time positions adjudicating for administrative tribunals. He has issued decisions or awards in over 500 matters in a wide variety of areas including employment and labour matters, forestry, shareholder and partnership disputes, family property disputes, environmental matters, surface rights disputes, auto collision liability, sexual and physical abuse claims arising from the operation of Indian Residential Schools. He travels extensively for work in Canada. |
Paul Love has been arbitrating commercial and labour matters since 1995. He is currently a listed arbitrator with the B.C. Collective Agreement Arbitration Bureau and a part-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board (for federal public sector grievances and labour practice complaints) and an adjudicator since 2003 with the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat. He has accepted adjudication/arbitration referrals from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service since 1997 for adjudicating labour and employment matters under the Canada Labour Code. Paul Love has extensive training in mediation. I have been mediating disputes since 1993. |
Paul Love is a member of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre, Arbitrators Association of British Columbia, Law Society of British Columbia, Canadian Bar Association, B.C. Arbitration and Mediation Institute and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). He is a past member of the Environmental Appeal Board, Forest Appeals Commission, Employment Standards Tribunal and past Chair of the B.C. Mediation and Arbitration Board (surface rights disputes oil & gas and mining). |
BSc, Honours, University of Victoria, 1980 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Government, Insurance and Reinsurance, Labour, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury | ||
Luu, Joanne | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Joanne Luu has a decade of experience in commercial and corporate dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on complex and high stakes disputes, and is broad in subject matter, including commercial, corporate and shareholder, securities, energy and natural resources, joint venture, construction, telecommunications, licensing agreements, manufacturing and distribution matters. Joanne has experience in numerous arbitration hearings seated in Canada and abroad. She has also appeared in court proceedings, including at the trial and appellate level, and before the Alberta Securities Commission. She sees real value, and has demonstrated experience, in running efficient and fair proceedings. To complement her dispute resolution practice, Joanne regularly works with her corporate solicitor colleagues to draft arbitration clauses and advise on transactions, corporate governance and other commercial issues to pre-empt disputes. Joanne is recognized as a leader in her field by Legal 500 Canada, Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration Best Lawyers in Canada. Prior to joining BD&P, she clerked at the Alberta Court of Appeal under the Honourable Mr. Justice F.F. Slatter. She also worked at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade dealing with trade policy. |
Joanne is qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators based in London. She has been invited to speak at various conferences and panels related to arbitration, contracts, insider trading and blockchain. She has co-authored book chapters in arbitration textbooks: |
Joanne is a recognized as a leader in her field, named by: • Legal 500 Canada as a Rising Star in Dispute Resolution, 2020 and 2021 She is a member of the following arbitral organizations: |
JD, University of Calgary, 2011, with an exchange to the University of Copenhagen focusing on European and international law BASc (honours with distinction), double major in biology and political science, University of Lethbridge, 2011 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Government, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Technology | ||
Maalouf, John J. | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Dr. John J. Maalouf, Senior Partner of the Firm, is one of Wall Street’s top lawyers and is a globally recognized expert in the areas of International Trade & Finance Law, International Arbitration, Corporate & Business Law, Banking Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Oil & Gas Law, Pharmaceuticals Law, Telecommunications Law, and Intellectual Property Law. Under John’s leadership, Maalouf Ashford & Talbot has been honored as “Law Firm of the Year” in the United States, Dubai, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, China, Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, and Brazil for 2018 in 54 different categories. In addition, John has been ranked as one of the Top 10 International Trade & Finance Lawyers in the United States for the past 14 consecutive years by the United States Lawyer Rankings – 2019 Edition, 2018 Edition, 2017 Edition, 2016 Edition, 2015 Edition, 2014 Edition, 2013 Edition, 2012 Edition, 2011 Edition, 2010 Edition, 2009 Edition, 2008 Edition, 2007 Edition and 2006 Edition. Dr. Maalouf regularly counsels clients on matters involving international business transactions, international arbitrations & mediations, mergers & acquisitions, oil & gas transactions, compliance issues, international banking, and foreign investment in the Middle-East. In addition, John specializes in representing multinational companies in connection with intellectual property law matters, pharmaceutical law matters, and technology, media and telecommunications law matters. |
In addition to being one of the world’s leading lawyers, Dr. Maalouf is also an International Arbitrator with the following Courts of International Arbitration and International Arbitration Centers:
As an International Arbitrator, Dr. Maalouf has over 12 years of experience deciding large international commercial disputes between multinational companies around the world. |
Dr. Maalouf has been ranked as one of the Top 10 International Trade & Finance Lawyers in the United States for the past 13 consecutive years by the United States Lawyer Rankings – 2006 to 2018 Editions. In addition, under his leadership, Maalouf Ashford & Talbot has been honored as “Law Firm of the Year” in the United States, Dubai, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, China, Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, and Brazil for 2018 in 54 different categories |
Bachelors of Science (Economics), Boston University, 1990 While in law school, John received the American Jurisprudence Award for Academic Excellence and was on the Dean’s List. |
Corporate Commercial, Government, Maritime, Real Estate, Tax, Technology | ||
Macintosh, George K. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Referee | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
From January 2014 to April 30, 2023 George Macintosh was a Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Previously, George led the litigation group at Farris, where he practised from his call in 1973 to December of 2013. He was appointed King’s Counsel in 1987, elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1991, and a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers in 2001. George practised as general counsel, at trial and on appeal, appearing before many provincial and federal tribunals, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He also appeared before tribunals outside Canadian jurisdiction, including the International Court of Arbitration for Sport and the American Arbitration Association, and sat as an arbitration chair in a wide variety of disputes. His practice as counsel was diverse but always included civil litigation at trial and appeal. He served as special prosecutor appointed by the Attorney General of British Columbia, as commission counsel for the government of British Columbia, and as counsel to committees of the Canadian Judicial Council in their hearing of complaints against federally-appointed judges. He arbitrated, as counsel for British Columbia, compensation for Provincial Court judges, and compensation for medical doctors practicing in the province. He has served as amicus curiae to the B.C. Supreme Court on a constitutional reference. He is a former co-chair of the Allan McEachern Course on Trial Advocacy at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, and a founding member of the British Columbia Inns of Court project, which is devoted to fostering professionalism in young lawyers. He also served on various committees addressing legislative reform in matters of evidence and civil procedure. George is a past chair of the civil litigation section of the Canadian Bar Association and is a past chair and a director of the Sopinka Cup Society, which hosts the national finals of the Canadian law school trial moot competition. In 2002, George was a member of the six-person Canadian delegation to Taiwan to advise the Taiwanese government with respect to the adversarial system of law. He served as a member of the federal Minister of Justice’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Appointments in British Columbia and was a Canadian Representative at the 2007 Canada-US Legal Exchange, held every ten years, hosted by the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Canada, and sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers. |
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Dalhousie Law L.L.B. 1972 |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Energy, Family, Financial Services, Franchise, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Labour, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Tax, Telecommunications, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
MacKenzie, Anne W. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, Emergency Arbitrator, International Arbitration, Mediation, Referee, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
The Honourable Anne W. Mackenzie is associate counsel at Hira Rowan LLP following a 34-year judicial career. Anne has served as a judge at every level of court in British Columbia, including a term as Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, and over twelve years on the Court of Appeal for British Columbia. Called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1978, Anne practiced for 11 years as Crown Counsel with the Federal Department of Justice (now the Public Prosecution Service of Canada). In 1990, she was appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and in 1996, to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In 2010, she became the first woman appointed as Associate Chief Justice of that Court. In late 2011, Anne became a member of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia, from which she retired in May 2024. During her long career on the bench, Anne developed experience in almost every area of the law, including a wide variety of civil, criminal, commercial, family and administrative litigation. She dealt with personal injury, medical malpractice, construction claims, insurance matters, wrongful dismissal actions, wills and estates, municipal law conflicts, and others. Anne has efficiently dealt with many difficult cases and involving a multitude of issues. Anne has participated in educational programs for the National Judicial Institute and Continuing Legal Education Society and spoken at professional conferences and gatherings on a variety of legal topics, including the admissibility of evidence, disclosure issues, Charter of Rights, and trial advocacy. She is now available to the profession for consulting and for all types of arbitration and mediation. Anne is committed to neutrality and fairness with the goal of reaching reasonable and fair agreements. |
• Fully accredited Family Law Mediator, having completed the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia’s 80 hours of courses. |
• Law Society of British Columbia |
• University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, Vancouver BC 1974 – 1977 |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Family, Financial Services, Government, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Labour, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Tax | ||
Maerov, Leslie E. | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Maerov has been in private practice in Vancouver for 28 years, initially as a commercial litigator and then as a corporate and commercial solicitor. Between 2001 and 2014, Mr. Maerov was Chief Executive Officer and President of a public-listed telecom company. Between 2014-2018 he was Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel of the company, until the business was sold. As CEO he leveraged his commercial law expertise and business mindset to develop and implement the company’s strategic growth plans, and was responsible for financing the company’s operations, mergers and acquisitions, all contractual negotiations and regulatory compliance. As CFO for several years, he was responsible for all financial reporting and public management and financial analysis. Since July 2018, he has resumed full time practice primarily as an independent commercial arbitrator, and as a commercial solicitor. In his private practice and as a telecom executive Mr. Maerov has developed broad expertise to deal with any commercial dispute, and has substantial expertise in contract remedies, securities, derivatives, agency, franchising, regulatory and governance issues and in shareholder disputes. Mr. Maerov understands what businesses want and need and applies that to dispute resolution. |
Mr. Maerov is a member and panelist for ADRBC, the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, a panelist for VanIAC, ICDR, FINRA (U.S. Financial Industry Regulation Authority) and NFA (U.S. National Futures Association), and is the immediate past Chair of VanIAC. He has been a presenter at numerous arbitration symposia on topics ranging from institutional rules to arbitration ethics. Leslie E. Maerov has conducted numerous domestic and international arbitrations as sole arbitrator and as member of three-person panels under VanIAC, ICDR, and FINRA (U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Rules and ad hoc rules. Fellowship training by CIArb. (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators), U.K., Dispute Resolution Board training with past membership in the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, robust continuing education program annually on various topics. |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Franchise, Hospitality, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Sports, Technology, Telecommunications, Wills and Estates | ||
Malas, Kamal Adnan | International Arbitration | Dubai | Sharjah | UAE (United Arab Emirates) | ➽ |
FIDIC: Friendly reviewer for 2017 FIDIC Yellow Book. ICC: MENA Region Arab Arbitrators Group member. UAE Ministry of Justice: Listed Engineering Expert. Dubai Courts: Listed Engineering Expert. Arab Union for Investments and Real Estate: Head of Arbitration and Legal Affairs. Dr. Malas participated as an arbitrator in 96 arbitration cases appointed by the following bodies: ICC, DIFC-LCIA, UAE Courts, Abu Dhabi Arbitration Center, Dubai International Arbitration Center, and many other International Arbitration Centers, besides; Arbitration cases between Private Parties (Ad-Hoc Arbitrations) in the Arab Gulf. The type of arbitration cases and No. of cases are: 1- Construction & Engineering 68 cases, 2- Real Estate 23 Cases, 3- Courier services 1 case, 4- Media Services 1 case, 5- Maritime services 1 case, 6- Insurance services 1 case, 7- Inheritance 1 Case. Dr. Malas rendered Final Award in Muscat -Saltant of Oman as a sole arbitrator appointed by both Parties in a big ad-hoc important arbitration case handled at the same time in Arabic and English languages; please find below the links who mentioned the AWARD, and stated that the Award has decided in all disputed matters, and caused increase %17.1 of stock market shares value of the winner company. Oman- Galfar wins RO23mn arbitration against Haya Water, sha… | MENAFN.COM http://www.omanobserver.om/arbitration-favour-galfar-seeb-sewage-project/ http://bit.ly/2EFpQGE Dr. Kamal Malas has 40+ years of practical experiences; spent half of them in the Arab Gulf countries. And worked on Big arbitration cases in UAE, Qatar Saltant of Oman, Kingdom of Arabi Saudi. He has multiple Experiences in (LAW + ENGINEERING) and benefit from combined them in finding speedily the solution of the disputes. He is accredited as a structural designer in Dubai Municipality; also, he is accredited in Many International Arbitration Centers as an arbitrator. Dr. Malas is specialized in Engineering and Real Estate Disputes; he has participated in resolving More than 1000 engineering and Real Estate Cases handled by him as neutral expert appointed by the courts in UAE, and in Dubai Courts. (The disputes are about construction, engineering, and real estate and are amounting more than USA $ 1 Billion). |
Dr. Malas is acting as International Arbitrator having certificates in (International Arbitration from DIAC + King’s College of London, Master class for arbitrators (ICC), Maritime Arbitration Certificate (Emirates Maritime Arbitration Center + GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre) and he is speaker in many arbitration centers’ events and training courses. Participated in more than 50 conferences, seminars, training courses, speaker and attendee in many international conferences. The combination of his study (Civ. Eng. + LAW), beside his PhD Economic (Dispute Resolution), and deep knowledge in FIDIC contracts, adding 40+ years of experience in the engineering field granted him the ability to be ranked as (Distinguished Advisor for Big Projects). He is professional in both Ad Hoc, the Institutional Arbitration, and provides his services through applying the International Rules of Arbitration (ICC, UNCITRAL, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA… etc.) Total amounts of disputes that he participated in resolving them as an arbitrator are more than USA $ 2 Billion). |
He published the Book “The Arbitration Award” in two languages Arabic and English, writing vignettes in the book “Construction Law” the Author: Lukas Klee – two editions, also He has many writings in Arbitrations, Intellectual property of Drawings, and Engineering disputes. Besides He makes presentation in the conferences and seminars among them: Real Estate Arbitrations in the UAE, Construction Law, Construction Contracts Contemporary Problems, The Art of Drafting Arbitration Award, Types of Arbitration Awards, Risk of Court Interference in the Arbitration Proceedings, Risk in terminating contracts, Construction contracts policy, Enforcement and Nullifying the Arbitration AWARD, Risk in signing Bespoke FIDIC Contracts, Negotiating Robust Construction Contracts under Qatari Law, Modern Dispute Boards (my own invented method in my PhD), Analysis of Delay and Time in Construction, Dispute Resolution Methods, Revoking Arbitrators under UAE law, Lessons learned in arbitration, Variations and Adjustments in Red Book 1999, Some Wrong Applications of FIDIC Red Book 1987 clauses, and many others. Award od Excellence: Outstanding Arbitrator of the Year Award- 2018 – Granted to him in the conference: International Arbitrators and Experts in Engineering Sector, the participant are (ICC, American University (AUD), SELEM, Arab Federation for Engineers, Project Management Institute, Engineering Association of Mediterranean Countries, Contractors association). Recent Appreciation Awards: UAE Ministry of Public Works (UAE) -2015 – Sharjah Municipality 2018+2019, American University in Dubai (AUD) 2019, Arab Union for Investment and Real Estate Development – 2018- Second Conference for International Arbitrators and Experts in Engineering Sectors 2019, Dubai Judicial Institute 2021, and many others. |
Civil Engineering, Damascus University, B.Sc., 1976 Beirut Arab University, B.A. Law, 1992 PhD from Armenian Government in Economic (Dispute Resolution) |
Construction, Real Estate | ||
Manson, Thomas | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Thomas Manson KC is a Vancouver-based arbitrator. Currently, he is a member of the Faculty of Law of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. He teaches (online during the Covid pandemic) Legal Writing at BFSU and also Academic Writing at Peking University. He has extensive experience as a panelist on internet domain name disputes, both individually and as a co-panelist. Mr. Manson was called to the Bar in 1981. His law practice includes dispute resolution in connection with commercial, corporate, and environmental disputes. He has acted as sole arbitrator and as a member of an arbitration panel in commercial, environmental, and other disputes. |
Arbitrator (2000-present), Mediator (2002-present) Member/Panelist of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) (1997 – present), Member/Panelist of the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute (2007 – present), Panelist of the CIETAC, Xi’an Arbitration Commission, Chongqing Arbitration Commission (2012- present) Arbitrator of the Fourth Committee of the Chongqing (China) Arbitration Commission (2013- present) |
Director of the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute (2010 – 2013) Vice President of the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute (2011 – 2013) Chair – “Securities Litigation” Courses, 2000 and 2005, Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C. Course Lecturer – CLE, Canadian Securities Institute, BC Compliance Officers’ Forum, Association of Canadian Compliance Professionals, Canadian Institute, Insight, BCAMI, and Client Seminars Author/Contributor – Numerous papers for CLEBC; CLE’s Supreme Court Chambers Orders, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2013 (in progress) Updates; CSA Insider Trading Task Force Report, 2003 Tom has travelled extensively and given lectures in China on Canadian legal and regulatory matters at Shandong University (Weihai), Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Heilongjiang University (Haerbin), Nanjing University School of Law (Nanjing), China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing), HIT School of Law (Haerbin), the Law School of Shandong University (Jinan), University of International Business & Economics (Beijing), Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC, Beijing), the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development, Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Law of Sun Yat-Sen University (Guǎngzhōu), and Law School of Central University of Finance and Economics (Běijīng). |
LLB., University of Victoria, 1980 |
Corporate Commercial, Government | ||
Margolis, Simon B. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Simon is a senior and skilled mediator and arbitrator. Following his call to the bar in 1983, he developed a broad commercial and insurance based practice, representing clients at all levels of court. Simon also earned a reputation for fairness and for providing practical and cost effective advice in assisting clients to resolve many disputes without the necessity of trial. Recognizing a need, Simon launched his mediation and arbitration practice in 2004 while a senior partner at Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP). In the ensuing years, he has mediated a wide range of cases in a variety of sectors, including claims involving property damage, shareholder disputes, professional liability, construction, environmental contamination, real estate, bodily injury, employment and First Nations, among others. Simon is also regularly retained to arbitrate a variety of commercial matters and UMP claims. As managing partner at Bull Housser & Tupper LLP from 2011 to 2016, Simon also enhanced his business acumen, demonstrating his natural ability to lead, work cooperatively and collaboratively with others and, when required, make the difficult decisions- skills he employs regularly in his mediation and arbitration practice. Since March 2017, Simon has focused exclusively on mediation and arbitration as part of Cornish Margolis Boyd Mediation & Arbitration. |
Simon has been active in alternate dispute resolution throughout his career and has acted as a mediator since 2004 and as an arbitrator since 2015. He has focused exclusively on mediation and arbitration since 2017. He has also served as a panelist in arbitration and mediation with the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada. Simon attended the Program of Instruction for Lawyers in mediation at Harvard University in 2004 and regularly attends professional development programs of the International Academy of Mediators, in which he has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow. |
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LLB, University of British Columbia, 1982 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury, Sports | ||
Marrow, Paul Bennett | International Arbitration | Chappaqua | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Paul Bennett Marrow has practiced law since 1969. Paul Bennett Marrow is Chairman of the Grievance Committee of the Westchester Bar Association. He is an Adjunct Professor, New York Law School teaching Domestic Arbitration. He is also lecturer at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York, the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and the U.S. Tax Court. |
Over forty-four years of experience. Alternate Dispute Resolution includes service as sole arbitrator, panel member and panel chair, resolving cases that involve a broad range of business issues including business dissolution, consumer contracts, construction contracts, computer technology, insurance contracts, credit and loan agreements, employment contracts and disputes involving securities with an emphasis on claims against securities brokers and underwriters. Since 1999 to the present, serving as an Adjunct Member of the Regents Review Committee, an administrative law appellate panel that primarily hears appeals from professional misconduct decisions by state boards for professional groups licensed and regulate by the New York State Department of Education. Currently the Chairman of the Grievance Committee for the Westchester County Bar Association. Fellow (FCIarb) The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, England. Chair, Examinations Committee, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Member, Board of Managers, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. |
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Case Western Reserve University, B.A. |
Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Real Estate | ||
Marrs, Scott D. | International Arbitration | Houston | TX (Texas) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Scott Marrs has over 30 years of experience as an advocate and as an arbitrator before domestic and international tribunals including AAA, ICDR, ICC, UNCITRAL and CPR. Arbitrator or advocate in a wide variety of international and domestic complex business disputes, commercial, and energy related disputes. |
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Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) (Fellow) Arbitrator with: VanIAC, AAA, ICDR, ICC, CPR, and LCIA International Institute for Energy Law – Advisory Board International Association of Defense Counsel – ADR Committee (Co-Chair) American, Texas and Houston Bar Foundations – Fellow Speaker: “Harness the Power of Arbitration to Obtain A Successful Award,” 2013 ALM Course, High Stakes Litigation (NYC) Speaker: “Comparing and Contrasting Major European and American Arbitral Forums,” 2013 IADC Annual Meeting (Hawaii) Speaker: “Getting Your Mojo Back Regarding Arbitration,” 2012 Trial Network Litigation Mgmt Supercourse (NYC) Legal Publications:– Texas Lawyer, Co-author, “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Primer for Energy Executives,” August 2015 – Practical Law, Co-author, “Enforcing Arbitration Awards in Texas,” June 2015 – Texas Lawyer, Co-Author, “How Oil Oversupply Shapes the Litigation Market,” May 2015 – Texas Lawyer, Co-Author, “Why is Mexico Talking about Importing Oil from Others?,” December 2014 Practical Law Journal, Co-Author, “AAA, JAMS and CPR Comparison Chart, A Practical Comparison of Major Arbitration Forums in the United States,” February/March 2014 – Texas Bar Journal, Co-Author, “Arbitration Confidentiality, What You Thought You Knew Can Hurt You – A Comparison of Confidentiality (Or Lack Thereof) in Major Domestic and International Arbitration Forums,” February 2014 – International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Annual Meeting, Speaker, “Comparing and Contrasting the Major European and American Arbitral Forums,” 2013 Honors, Awards: Top Rated Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution, The Best Lawyers in America 2020 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution, American Lawyer Media Texas’ “Top Rated Lawyer,” Martindale, 2012, 2014 “Texas Super Lawyer,” 2004, 2006-2014 “Houston’s Top Lawyers,” H Texas Magazine, 2007-2012, 2014 “Top 40 Texas Lawyers Under 40,” Texas Lawyer, 2001 Houston Lawyer Award, Outstanding Legal Article of the Year, 1993 Hirsch, Glover, Robinson & Sheiness Award, Excellence in Insurance Law, 1989
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JD, Cum Laude – South Texas College of Law – 1989 – Houston, Texas (Board of Advocates, Order of the Lytae, South Texas Law Review) Intern, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Honorable Edith H. Jones) University of Texas – Austin, Texas (BBA, Business, Petroleum Land Management-1983) |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Entertainment, Government, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Sports, Technology, Transportation | ||
McArthur, Joe | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
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). |
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B.A. (Political Science), Carleton University – 1991 |
Corporate Commercial, Indigenous, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Wills and Estates | ||
McCluskey, Edward C. | International Arbitration | East Kilbride | Glasgow | UK (United Kingdom) | ➽ |
Edward is an experienced Chartered Surveyor and Arbitrator who has worked on some of the world’s largest construction projects during his 28-year career in both the UK and Middle East. Edward was the youngest Arbitrator to be appointed by Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) in 2007. Since his first DIAC appointment, Edward has received over 40 appointments. Edward is also involved in the development of surveyors throughout the UK in his role as teacher and assessor for the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Energy, Healthcare, Hospitality, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Real Estate, Transportation | ||
McDonald, Dan | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, Emergency Arbitrator, International Arbitration, Mediation | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Dan McDonald is an independent commercial arbitrator and mediator based in Calgary, Alberta and associated with Western Arbitration Chambers. Called to the bars of British Columbia and Alberta, Dan’s practice for over 45 years has focused on resolution of commercial, energy and securities disputes through litigation, arbitration and mediation. Since retiring as a senior partner and Vice-Chair of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP in 2021, Dan continues his practice as an independent arbitrator, mediator and counsel. He serves as a sole arbitrator, co‑arbitrator and tribunal chair in domestic and international commercial arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional. In addition, he acts as a mediator in all types of commercial disputes. Dan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the President of Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society. |
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – completed the required training and qualified as fellow 2006 Harvard Law School, Mediation Workshop 2006 ICDR Canada Arbitrator Training 2015 Over 45 years of dispute resolution experience as commercial litigation counsel, arbitrator and mediator. |
Appointed King’s (formerly Queen’s) Counsel 1996 Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators President and Director, Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society Member, Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society Member, ADR Institute of Alberta and ADR Institute of Canada Member, Canada Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators, American Arbitration Association, International Center for Dispute Resolution Member, List of Arbitrators, Canada Transportation Agency |
Bachelor of Science with distinction, University of Alberta, 1971 Bachelor of Laws, Queen’s University, 1975 |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Franchise, Healthcare, Labour, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Pension, Real Estate, Securities, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
McEachern, Sarah K. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Sarah McEachern has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial arbitration. She focuses her practice on resolving complex disputes in the commercial, construction, mining, health, and energy sectors. She has expertise in both domestic and international disputes and has acted or advised on proceedings under the rules of the ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, ADRIC, AAA, SCC, HKIAC, and VanIAC. Sarah is a partner based out of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP’s Vancouver office where she is the regional manager of commercial and construction disputes. She is one of 12 inaugural arbitrators on Arbitration Place’s NextGen arbitrator roster and was appointed by the British Columbian government as a roster member for BC’s Dispute Resolution and Bid Protest Mechanism under the New West Partnership Trade Agreement and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. She has received national and international recognition by clients and peers as a leading practitioner in dispute resolution and arbitration in particular. She is recognized as a National Leader in Arbitration in Canada, 2020 (Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration) and since 2018 as a Future Leader. She is recognized as a Star (and previously a Rising Star) in the Lexpert Guides. In 2020 she was the recipient of a Lexpert Rising Star (previously known as Top 40 under 40). She has also been recognized in 2020 (and since 2017) by Benchmark Canada. She writes and presents frequently on topics related to arbitration and co-authored the guide Technology Resources for Arbitration Practitioners on the IBA’s website. She has a particular interest in running arbitrators efficiently and using technology to move towards greener arbitration practices. |
Sarah recently (2019/2020) acted as sole arbitrator in a dispute between Chinese and American parties seated in California under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Rules. She is an inaugural arbitrator on Arbitration Place’s NextGen Arbitration Roster (2021) and a director of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC). In 2021, she was appointed by the Government of British Columbia to serve a five-year term as a roster member for BC’s Bid Protest Mechanism and Dispute Resolution panels established under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement and the New West Partnership Trade Agreement. She has a working knowledge of French and Spanish and has studied international arbitration in Hong Kong (University of Hong Kong) as well as Singapore (Singapore International Arbitration Academy). She has also completed arbitrator training with the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). |
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JD, University of Toronto, 2007 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Healthcare, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Partnership and Shareholder | ||
McFetridge, William (Bill) | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Bill has over 40 years of experience as a professional providing advice to clients in a range of industries. Bill’s practice is focused on acquisitions and divestitures of large and small businesses, shareholder agreements and disputes, joint ventures and limited partnerships. Prior to entering the field of law, Bill trained and practiced as a Chartered Professional Accountant (FCPA, FCA), a background that he draws on to deal with a variety of corporate and commercial matters. He has considerable experience structuring and negotiating joint venture agreements and long term supply agreements. Bill has developed special knowledge and expertise in advising clients on the process of buying and selling businesses. Industry Experience Bill has carried out arbitrations and has worked with clients in a wide range of industries including: trucking |
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LL.B, University of British Columbia, 1977 |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Maritime, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Tax, Transportation | ||
McGowan, Gary V. | International Arbitration | Houston | TX (Texas) | US (United States) | ➽ |
For 25 years, Gary McGowan has served as an arbitrator and mediator in national and international disputes, often complex, high-stakes matters. He has arbitrated over 145 disputes, serving as chair or solo in 108. An attorney for 40 years, McGowan litigated business cases for 16 years, most notably as a founding partner of Susman, Godfrey & McGowan, a prominent boutique law firm. As a neutral, he has established a reputation for effectiveness, thorough preparation, and quick discernment. |
Arbitrated over 145 matters (AAA, CPR, AHLA, and Ad Hoc). |
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Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of Texas, Austin (1970) |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing | ||
McIntyre, John J. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
J.J. McIntyre has more than 40 years experience as a trial lawyer, appellate counsel, arbitration counsel, commercial arbitrator and mediator in international and domestic disputes. He has served as party appointed arbitrator and chair of triumvirate panels as well as sole arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He authored the Vancouver Maritime Arbitrators Association (“VMAA”) 2016 Arbitration Rules. |
Over 40 years of experience as counsel, arbitrator and mediator
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University of Saskatchewan, Bachelor of Laws, 1980 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Insurance and Reinsurance, Maritime, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Sports, Transportation | ||
McLaren, Richard H. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | London | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
McLaren and Innovative Dispute Resolution Ltd. have been in business for over thirty years offering clients arbitration, mediation, facilitation, consulting and investigative services. For over thirty years, McLaren has been involved in labour arbitrations involving both federal and provincial matters. McLaren has significant experience and expertise in anti-doping including cases involving nandrolone, anabolic agents, identical urine samples, r-EPO, equine growth hormones, blood transfusions, and various illicit substances. Richard H. McLaren was a consultant to Senator Mitchell’s inquiry into doping problems and relationship to professional baseball (2007). Arbitrator more than 100 cases in anti-doping and sports disputes; 10 cases in international commercial and 25 cases in domestic commercial disputes. Through the Ad Hoc Panel of the Court of Arbitration of Sport, McLaren has proudly participated in four Olympic Games during which he resolved disputes pertaining to, amongst other things, anti-doping cases, athlete eligibility, and intellectual property rights. Specifically, he acted as Arbitrator for the following summer and winter Olympic Games. McLaren’s mediation practice evolved as a natural extension to his arbitration experience. Parties to disputes often comment on McLaren’s creativity, ability to encourage discussion and identify areas of commonality and, ultimately, to facilitate the resolution of their dispute. |
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LL.M., London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London, 1972 |
Corporate Commercial, Employment, Energy, Partnership and Shareholder, Pension, Sports, Transportation | ||
Michealson, Peter L. | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Principal ADR Experience — 1991 to present Arbitrated international and domestic: (1) intellectual property (IP) disputes (including patent disputes spanning a wide range of technologies; trademark, domain name and trade secret disputes); (2) information technology (IT) disputes; and (3) technical and technology-related disputes across many industries and industrial sectors, including, e.g., aviation, biotech, defense contracting, energy, general manufacturing, infrastructure (including investment), electronics (hardware and software), lighting, major appliances, medical devices, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals; and (4) commercial disputes across a wide range of other substantive areas including, e.g.: antitrust (merger), breach of contract, consumer credit, consumer fraud, consulting, joint ventures and partnerships, licensing (including university technology transfer), mergers & acquisitions, securities and financial, and telecommunications (including reciprocal compensation). Mediated and served as a Court-appointed expert in patent law in numerous patent litigations in the U.S. District Courts involving complex technology across various industries. Mediated, on a Court-annexed basis, Hatch-Waxman based pharmaceutical disputes. Also mediated trademark litigations in the U.S. District Courts. Also mediated disputes across a wide range of other substantive areas including, e.g.: breach of contract, credit and financial, employment discrimination, franchises, healthcare, insurance coverage and liability, intellectual property (including validity, infringement and misappropriation), licensing (including university technology transfer), professional malpractice and fee disputes, real property (including leases), technology and warranties. Collectively, arbitrated and mediated over 700 disputes with amounts in contention ranging from a few thousand dollars to between US $ 400‑800 Million dollars. Non-ADR Experience — 1979 to 2012 Served as General Counsel (on a virtual basis) for Direct Grid Technologies, LLC handling wide variety of general corporate issues, including intellectual property. Conducted intellectual property and unfair competition litigation in the U.S. Courts; and inter-parte and ex-parte proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office involving patents and trademarks, including, e.g. patent appeals, patent reissues, patent interferences and trademark oppositions; and (with foreign counsel) overseas patent and trademark oppositions. Specifically, my experience includes having: (a) acted as counsel in patent infringement cases involving, e.g., software-based systems, electronic handheld calculators, video equipment, electronic instruments, and electronic point‑of‑sale terminals and computer systems utilizing these terminals; (b) prepared patent validity and infringement opinions involving complex electronic technology; prepared trademark validity and infringement opinions; (c) counseled in intellectual property, antitrust, unfair competition, and privacy law; (d) prepared/prosecuted several hundred patent applications, both U.S. and foreign, covering a wide range of electronic and mechanical technologies, e.g.; microprocessor and computer hardware and software including massively parallel processing systems; operating systems; cryptography (including blockchains); business methods; decision-theoretic processing; complex electronic systems (both computer and non-computer based) in the technical areas of, e.g., industrial process control and measurement, digital data transmission, communications including radio, wireline and mobile wireless, digital transmission and ISDN, VoIP, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and general packet and circuit switching, networking, high definition television (HDTV), video and image processing including image compression and enhancement, video cameras, avionics, speech recognition and processing, radar and medical electronics; semiconductors and semiconductor fabrication; fiber optics; photographic apparatus; displays, including liquid crystal displays (LCDs); electronic circuitry; and mechanical devices and metallurgy; and (e) prosecuted many U.S. and foreign trademark applications. Experienced in patent and trademark licensing, including F/RAND licensing. Between July 1984 – April 2012 (approximately 28 years), I owned and successfully operated my law firm, Michaelson and Associates (and its predecessor firms). In so doing, I was responsible for: marketing, finance, purchasing (including capital asset acquisition and long-term leasing of office space and certain equipment), IT and office automation, personnel (both professional and administrative, including hiring, termination, supervision, benefits, employment policies, and compensation), billing and all other functions attendant to running a small business. During that time, I had complete and sole “bottom line” profit/loss responsibility. Positions Held Arbitrator, Mediator and Attorney — Michaelson ADR Chambers, LLC (2011-present), Principal and Attorney, Arbitrator and Mediator, Michaelson & Associates (1984-2012), and General Counsel (virtual), Direct Grid Technologies LLC (2010-2012); Associate Attorney, Pennie & Edmonds (1982-1984); Corporate Patent Attorney (Member of Legal and Patent Staff), Bell Telephone Laboratories (1979-1982); Electronics Development Engineer, Rockwell International Corporation (1977-1979) and Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa) (1976-1977); Electronics Project Engineer, Control Systems Research, Inc. (1975-1976) |
Managing the Process with E-Discovery 2.0 (10/2018) and Arbitrating in a Digital World — Fair, Expeditious Management of e-Discovery (10/2017), American Collee of e-Neutrals; e-Discovery Negotiation Training (2/2018), The Sedona Conference; International Symposia on Advanced Case Management Issues (12/2017, 9/2016, 2/2009), ICDR; 2015 Joint Columbia Law School — Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Course on International Commercial Arbitration (05/2015); Advanced Mediator Training (10/2004), CPR; Advanced Mediator Skills, Mediation and Training Alternatives in association with CEDR/London (05/2004); AAA Arbitrator II-Adv. Case Management (10/2002); AAA Arbitrator 1-Fundamentals of the Arbitration Process (12/2001); 6th Annual Int’l Summer School, Mediator Skills Training, CEDR/London, (8/2001-9/2001); Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers: The Lawyer as Negotiator, (06/1999), Adv. Mediation, (11/1997), and Mediation (06/1996), and Program on Negotiation: negotiation workshops (06/1993); WIPO – Workshop for Arbitrators (11/1996) and Mediation of Intellectual Property Disputes training (05/1995). |
Chair Emeritus and Co-Founder – New York Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) Member — “Tech List”, Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC) (US) Fellow — College of Commercial Arbitrators (US) Member — American Bar Association (US) Fellow — American College of e-Neutrals (US) Member — International Arbitration Club of New York (US) Member — National Association of Distinguished Neutrals (US) Member — New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) (US) Member — Alaska and New Jersey State Bar Associations (US) Peter Michaelson conducted considerable number of seminars, extensively served as speaker and provided numerous presentations concerning various aspects of IP law and IP-related ADR to various legal groups, and organizations; and authored many articles on various aspects of arbitration, IP-related ADR and IP Law. See Peter Michaelson’s CV for detailed lists of his seminars, speaking engagements, presentations and publications. Martindale-Hubbell “AV” rated attorney with Peer Review Rating of 5.0 of 5 (“Preeminent”) Avvo Rating 10.0 out of 10 (“Superb”)
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New York University School of Law, LLM (Trade Regulation), 1985 |
Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Morgan, Eric | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Eric helps businesses resolve their complex legal disputes. He practices corporate commercial litigation and arbitration. He has acted in complex, multi-party disputes involving contractual issues, torts including professional negligence, class actions, corporate governance matters, shareholder disputes, and commercial and investor-state arbitrations. Eric has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, courts at all levels in Ontario, courts in BC, Alberta and New Brunswick, and in arbitrations and mediations. He has also made submissions to the Ontario Legislature regarding arbitration legislation and advised clients on anti-corruption and risk management matters. Eric is the author of a book on professional negligence, a book chapter on dispute resolution in Canada and numerous articles. Eric sits on the advisory board of Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, where he co-chaired the Policy and Advocacy Committee. He was previously a North American representative for the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum. Eric previously practiced in the litigation department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and was a partner at a boutique firm in Toronto. Before joining Osler, Eric worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in London, during which time he was seconded to the Bank of England and the litigation and special investigations team of Barclays Bank plc. He also taught criminal law at Oxford University. Eric also has experience in Directors’ and Officers’ liability, corporate governance, mining, post-retirement benefits, contracts, professional negligence and class actions. |
Eric is a Qualified Arbitrator and has completed the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society’s Gold Standard Course in Arbitration, where he has subsequently been a guest lecturer. Eric has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, courts at all levels in Ontario, courts in BC, Alberta and New Brunswick, and in arbitrations (commercial and investment treaty) and mediations. He has also made submissions to the Ontario Legislature regarding arbitration legislation and advised clients on anti-corruption and risk. |
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Accounting, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder | ||
Morrison, Andrew | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Morrison is an experienced commercial litigator who has provided candid and effective advice to clients of all sizes for more than twenty years. He has achieved a high rate of success in chambers, trial and appellate decisions. Mr. Morrison has a varied practice. He regularly acts as counsel in arbitration proceedings and appears in many courts and tribunals including the B.C. Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He is well-known for litigating disputes concerning real estate and commercial contracts, and has substantial experience handling matters involving shareholder rights, partnerships, commercial leases, employment relationships, the collection of judgment debts, conflicts of interest, fee disputes between lawyers and clients, and civil procedure. Mr. Morrison is a sought-after speaker who is regularly asked to speak at Continuing Legal Education Society of BC (CLEBC) and Canadian Bar Association (CBA) events. He is the co-chair of several CLEBC litigation courses. He has also been a guest speaker to law students at the Allard School of Law at UBC. |
Mr. Morrison has acted as sole arbitrator and as an arbitration tribunal member in a variety of disputes. Mr. Morrison has acted as mediator in dozens of disputes, most involving the breakdown of the relationship between partners or shareholders or the purchase or development of real estate. Mr. Morrison has acted as counsel in countless mediations and dozens of arbitrations. |
Mr. Morrison is a member of the Law Society of BC. He is recognized as leading commercial litigation counsel by Chambers Partners. |
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, 1995-1999 |
Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Franchise, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate | ||
Morton, Robert B. | International Arbitration | Dallas | TX (Texas) | US (United States) | ➽ |
35+ Years of Litigation experience in Trial and Appeals Court Practice in state and federal courts, and 25+ years as a highly accredited Arbitrator and Hearing Office/Administrative Law Judge. Attorney-at-Law (Retired) formerly engaged in complex civil litigation and Trial and Appeals Court Practice, on behalf of both plaintiffs/claimants and defendants/respondents. Admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of Illinois (1982-2008); and admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, (1983-2008). Formerly, served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois, and in Law Enforcement as a part-time sworn Police Officer in northern Illinois. |
Robert B. Morton is a highly experienced commercial Arbitrator, presided in more than 100+ Arbitration hearings, and has been accredited by these national & international ADR Organizations (past and present):
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B.A., Political Science, University of Michigan, 1978- Summa Cum Laude and Pho Beta Kappa |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Securities | ||
Munro, Lisa | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Lisa Munro is a partner of Lerners LLP and an arbitrator on the Arbitration Place roster. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and has achieved the Qualified Arbitrator designation (Q. Arb.) from the ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC). She is also an arbitrator listed on the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC), Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (TCAS), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Canada (CIArb), ADRIC, ICC Canada, and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) rosters. Lisa brings to her role as arbitrator over 25 years of experience as litigation counsel with a broad range of expertise in commercial disputes. She has experience in both domestic and international arbitrations (both ad hoc and under institutional rules) in disputes arising from contracts in a variety of sectors. Lisa is also a member of the Board of Directors of CIArb and ADRIC and is the former co-Chair of the TCAS Executive Committee. Lisa has consistently demonstrated her strengths in decision making, business judgment, and conflict resolution in her executive leadership roles within her firm. She is a former member of Lerners LLP’s Executive Committee (2007 to 2019) and served as the Toronto Office co-Managing Partner (2008 to 2017) and Managing Partner (2018 to 2019). Lisa is one of four course instructors of the 2023/2024 TCAS Gold Standard Course in Domestic and International Commercial Arbitration in Canada, the successful completion of which satisfies the requirements for the ADRIC Q.Arb. designation. She is the editor of Arbitration Matters (www.arbitrationmatters.com), which provides regular summaries of key decisions on arbitration released by courts across Canada. A newsletter with the most recent summaries is sent to subscribers (for free) on a regular basis. She is also the host of “Arbitration Boot Camp”, a series of webinars (both live and posted on You Tube) that covers key arbitration concepts and explains how they work in practice. |
Lisa Munro received formal education in arbitral proceedings (domestic and international) including:
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Corporate Commercial | ||
Murphy, Timothy W. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Murphy practices in the areas of business law and has a broad range of experience dealing with corporate commercial and technology law matters, as well as resolution of business disputes. He acts for clients in all manner of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, financings, corporate governance and contract negotiations. He began his career with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Calgary, Alberta, practiced internationally with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Europe, and served as in-house legal counsel with a multinational software company based in Paris, France. Mr. Murphy sits as a director and advisor on several public and private company boards and enjoys mentoring start-ups and founders. |
Over the past 15 years, Mr. Murphy has successfully: – served as counsel in connection with commercial arbitrations; |
The Law Society of British Columbia |
Master of Laws (LL.M), McGill University, 2006 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Entertainment, Franchise, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Sports, Technology | ||
Nadeau-Sequin, Sara | Expedited International Arbitration | Paris | Ile-de-France | FR (France) | ➽ |
Sara Nadeau-Seguin is an arbitration specialist, advising in international disputes, in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings under the auspices of the main arbitration centres and in application of various substantive laws. She also assists her clients in arbitration-related Court proceedings, including for the setting aside of international arbitral awards. She also acts as an arbitrator and advises on other forms of dispute resolution, such as mediation. Her experience spans across a variety of sectors and includes shareholders disputes, energy, telecoms, aerospace and engineering. Sara is also regularly involved in the negotiation and drafting of dispute resolution clauses, and has handled judicial proceedings, particularly before Canadian courts. |
Chair in proceedings conducted under the rules of the Association Française d’Arbitrage. Sole arbitrator in ICC proceedings involving two European companies relating to the unpaid invoices and the alleged non-performance of a services agreement (French law; Paris seat; English language) Sole arbitrator in ICC expedited proceedings involving two European companies relating to a loan agreement (French law; Paris seat; English language) Experience as Counsel |
I am recognized by the leading directories, such as WWL Arbitration (2022), as “brilliant, thorough and hard working”; “She always puts the client first, is easy to work with and stands up for what she thinks is right for the case”; “Her written arguments are brilliant”; “Sara has excellent communication and project management skills.” Legal 500 EMEA 2021 also reports: “Sara Nadeau- Seguin is smart, thorough and hardworking. Nothing was ever too hard and she always put the client first. Her written arguments are brilliant, absolutely worldclass. Her legal arguments at hearing were powerful and convincing. |
2009: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London (UK), Masters of Law (LL.M) 2007: McGill University, Montreal (Canada), B.C.L./LL.B: Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Laws Admitted to practice in Quebec (2008), England and Wales (2012) and France (2016) |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Franchise, Hospitality, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Neuhaus, Joseph E. | International Arbitration | New York | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
I joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1987 and became a partner in 1992. My practice as a partner was focused on international commercial litigation in both arbitral and court settings. I was the coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s arbitration practice and served as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitral proceedings, including ad hoc proceedings, arbitrations administered under the rules of most international arbitral institutions and arbitrations involving sovereign entities. I also served as counsel in a variety of arbitration-related disputes in court, as well as other commercial litigation and regulatory investigations. I retired from the partnership and full-time work as counsel on December 31, 2021 in order to devote my time to sitting as arbitrator and teaching. |
I have served as arbitrator in over 20 cases, including 12 as chair or sole arbitrator, under the ICC, AAA, ICDR, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as in other ad hoc arbitrations. I have served as counsel in dozens of arbitrations over 30 years. |
I have served as chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (now serving on the Executive Committee); member of the Board of Directors of the CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution; member of the Board of Directors and Council of the American Arbitration Association; member of the Executive Committee of the New York International Arbitration Center; Chair (and now member) of the International Commercial Disputes Committee of the New York City Bar Association; and Private Sector Advisor on the U.S. delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration. Please select recent publications listed on website. |
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Accounting, Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Financial Services, Franchise, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation | ||
Ngai, David S. C. | Domestic Arbitration | Richmond | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
David Ngai has over 30 years experience as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in North America, Asia and Europe. David also has over 30 years experience in Building and Civil Engineering Projects. |
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Bachelor of Law – Honors 1995 |
Commercial Lease, Construction | ||
Nilsen, Carl | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Carl Nilsen founded the firm of Nilsen Realty Research Ltd. (which subsequently became part of Altus Group) after gaining real estate qualifications and experience in London (England) and Toronto. Mr. Nilsen came to Vancouver in 1973 since when his professional practice has involved the preparation of specialized studies and appraisals for both the public and private sector. Mr. Nilsen was retained on a regular basis to provide expert evidence before courts and arbitration boards concerned with the establishment of rental value or market value under expropriation, property assessment and other proceedings. He has given evidence before the BC Assessment Appeal Board, the BC Supreme Court, the BC Expropriation Compensation Board and the Federal Court (Trial Division). He has been appointed as a Valuator under the B.C. Hydro and Power Authority Act. He also frequently sits as a single arbitrator or as the member of arbitration panels. Mr Nilsen has been engaged on many occasions to speak to professional organizations on real estate valuation matters. His presentations have included topics relating to the role of the professional as expert witness and as arbitrator. |
Examples of experience as single arbitrator determining market or rental value include:
Experience as member or chair of arbitration panels in connection with the following matters:
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Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Real Estate | ||
Norton, John W. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Norton has practiced business law for over 30 years and during the last 10 years has also acted as counsel and chair in various arbitrations relating to major business issues and real estate matters. He is known for his practical and strategic approach to legal and business problems. Mr. Norton practices law in the area of mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, corporate governance and commercial law. Mr. Norton has extensive experience in real estate development law and venture capital law. He also acted Counsel on behalf of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, Department of Justice, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and United Van Lines. He was finance Chairman for Doug Mowatt, and he is Chairman of Universal Packaging Inc. |
Mr. Norton is a member of a number of Canadian and International Associations, and is an International Associate of the American Bar Association;
Mr. Norton has been a director of numerous companies and advisory boards, including B.C. Housing Management Commission, Downtown Vancouver Association, Yaletown Housing Society, Vancouver Neurological Centre, Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club, St. George’s School Foundation, Shawnigan Lake School Board of Governors, Thunderbird Golf Society, Pacific Parkinson Research Institute, Air Canada Championship, Order of St. John Palliative Care Foundation, as well as many closely held corporations. |
B. Comm., University of British Columbia, 1968 |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Hospitality, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Real Estate, Sports, Technology, Transportation, Wills and Estates | |||
O’Connor, Christopher J | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Nanoose | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
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Christopher O’Connor, KC has extensive experience in arbitrations and mediations, including acting as an arbitrator in a dispute relating to the construction of mine, a dispute relating of a co-generation plant, a dispute with respect to the construction of a transmission line, the annual price under a long term gas supply agreement, a dispute relating to the construction of a school, a dispute relating to the construction of a pipe line, a dispute relating to the construction of a highways bridge, a highways maintenance contract, a hospital, a golf course club house and a hotel, disputes relating to a purchase and sale agreement of shares in number of companies in the food industry, a commission agreement for a loan, the amount of rent payable under a lease, and a real estate partnership dispute, and a law firm’s departure dispute.
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Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto, 1976
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance, Partnership and Shareholder | ||
O’Neill Jr., Philip D. | International Arbitration | Boston | MA (Massachusetts) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Philip O’Neill’s international practice ranged from general corporate work to dispute resolution. Primarily, Philip O’Neill was engaged in litigation/arbitration as a trial attorney and arbitrator for over 30 years, with approximately equal experience in international and domestic arbitration and litigation involving complex business disputes (70%). He acted as outside general counsel to a number of American and foreign clients in connection with projects in the U.S. and around the world, including joint ventures and private equity investments. Phil’s international general counsel practice involved matters/issues in as many as 45-50 countries per year. He also represented both U.S. and foreign companies in cross-border and domestic arbitration as well as litigation matters in the U.S. and abroad for over 30 years. His experience as advocate or arbitrator included international commercial disputes involving energy supply, joint ventures, distribution, health care, life sciences, telecom, valuation and transfer pricing, as well as patent royalty and other intellectual property, technology transfer and licensing matters. Notable Experience Guidance/Transactional:
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Phil O’Neill is a very experienced international arbitrator and is on panels or listed by arbitral institutions globally, including the American Arbitration Association, International Chamber of Commerce, WIPO, the London Court of International Arbitration, CIETAC and the Singapore, SHIAC, SIAC, AIAC and Hong Kong Arbitration Centers. Phil is a chartered arbitrator and a fellow in both the College of Commercial Arbitrators and in England’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was previously on the American Panel of Arbitrators to resolve trade disputes under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Phil has been listed repeatedly in the International Arbitration section of The Best Lawyers in America. He is on the short list of the World’s top technology arbitrators of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Centre.
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In 2007 Phil O’Neill taught international business transactions at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. Phil served as Nomura lecturer in law at Harvard Law School on International Arbitration in 2005. His professorial career began at Boston College Law School in 1988, where he initially taught a seminar on “National Security Law” and he continues to teach an “International Arbitration” course. He also taught for many years at Boston University School of Law, including an LLM seminar on “International Arbitration” from 2011-2020, “National Security Law” seminar from 2001-2009, and a L.L.M. level course entitled “American Foreign Policy and International Banking” 1992. Phil previously guest-lectured at the Harvard Law School on “International Arbitration” in the mid to late 1990s as well as 2006, and before that at Harvard Business School on venture capital. |
Hamilton College, B.A., 1973 |
Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Technology, Transportation | ||
Oppal, Wally | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Wally is an experienced counsel and strategic advisor. His practice focuses on alternative and traditional dispute resolution as well as Aboriginal law. After graduation from the University of British Columbia Law School, Wally went into private practice for a number of years. During this time he was appointed as a Special Prosecutor on many high profile criminal and commercial cases. In 2005, he was appointed as Attorney General of British Columbia and served as Minister Responsible for Multiculturism until 2009. Wally was involved in many significant reforms of the justice system, including the establishment of Canada’s first community court to deal with chronic offenders, developing new Rules of Court in order to promote quicker resolution of disputes and developing new initiatives in dealing with violence against women. A lifetime resident of British Columbia, Wally has dedicated his entire working life to the pursuit of social justice and community safety. His landmark report on policing in British Columbia led to many policing reforms after its publication in 1994. Wally’s service to the public of this province, most recently as Commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, is of special significance. |
Trial and Appellant Judge for 23 years. As a Supreme Court Judge mandatory to attend Dispute Resolution Workshops. |
Wally has been recognized with several awards, including the Georges A. Goyer, QC, Distinguished Service Award (2000), the Lawyers Assistance Program of B.C., Lawyer Helping Lawyer Award (2007) the Anthony P. Pantages, QC, Medal for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Public Safety (2005) the RBC Mehfil Magazine, Lifetime Achievement Award (2010), and with an Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of the Fraser Valley (2010). Wally has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. He is Chairman of the Simon Fraser University India Advisory Council and a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. He was appointed Commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in September 2010 and as Chancellor of Thompson River University in February 2011. |
University of British Columbia, LL.B. 1967 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Indigenous | ||
Orchard, Vincent R. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Burnaby | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Vincent Orchard was a litigation partner at Borden Ladner Gervais Vancouver office. He was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1976. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Manitoba. Vincent started his career at the Federal Department of Justice in Vancouver before joining Ladner Downs. He is a former Supreme Court of Canada law clerk. Vincent was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2004.
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Mr. Orchard is certified as a Chartered Arbitrator. Mr. Orchard is a civil mediator on the Mediate B.C. Civil Roster. Mr. Orchard has participated in hundreds of mediations covering a broad range of civil disputes. Mr. Orchard is also Chair of the panel of Arbitrators and Referees for the Hepatitis C Class Action litigation in British Columbia resulting in many published decisions. Mr. Orchard has forty years of experience in resolving disputes. |
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Dartmouth College, BA |
Corporate Commercial, Healthcare, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury | ||
Pappas, Vasilis F.L. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Vasilis Pappas is Head of Bennett Jones’ International Arbitration Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s Construction Group. He is a recognized leader in the fields of domestic and international commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration, and construction litigation and arbitration. He has been recognized by clients and market commentators as “a prominent figure in the arbitration world” who “gives expert advice”, “wins considerable support for his articulacy, responsiveness and quality of service”, and “is well regarded for his experienced work on international disputes related to the energy and mining sectors” (Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business). Vasilis has represented companies all over the world in complex commercial disputes worth many billions of dollars in a diverse range of sectors, including energy, mining, banking, insurance, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. He has particular expertise in construction disputes, acting for owners, contractors, subcontractors, and engineers in a wide range of disputes arising from large construction projects. Vasilis has acted as arbitration counsel under the world’s leading international arbitration rule systems including ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICDR, and AAA, and as litigation counsel before the courts of the United States and Canada. Vasilis also represents sovereign states and multinational companies in investor-state disputes under NAFTA Chapter Eleven, the ICSID Convention, and other bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Vasilis practiced for eight years in New York City with a leading international law firm. He also practiced with the Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada), representing Canada in investor-state arbitrations and investment treaty negotiations. Vasilis now works out of Bennett Jones’ Vancouver and Calgary offices. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law in the field of international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration, is on the Canadian roster of arbitrators of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He also publishes and speaks regularly on topics pertaining to international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration. |
Vasilis has practiced commercial and investor-state arbitration exclusively for nearly 20 years. He has acted as arbitration counsel in dozens of international and domestic arbitration proceedings seated in jurisdictions all over the world, including in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. He is also an Adjunct Professor and teaches Commercial Arbitration at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law and frequently appears as guest lecturer at other universities in the field of arbitration. |
Chambers Global – Dispute Resolution: Arbitration – Band 2 Chambers Canada – Dispute Resolution: Arbitration – Canada – Band 3 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory – Repeatedly Recommended: Commercial Arbitration The Legal 500 Canada – Recommended, International Expertise Lexpert/Report on Business Special Edition – Canada’s Leading Litigation Lawyers Member, ICC Canada Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators |
University of British Columbia, BA, 1999 McGill University, LLB, 2002 McGill University, BCL, 2002 FCIArb. – Charter Institute of Arbitrators |
Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Energy, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Technology, Transportation | ||
Parthasarathy, Srikanth | International Arbitration | Bengaluru | Karnataka | IN (India) | ➽ |
Dr. Parthasarathy holds a Ph.D in Finance from the United States of America, Chartered Accountant from India and Chartered Management Accountant (Pending Membership) from United Kingdom. He has over 13 (thirteen) years of experience in the area of Finance and have been part of 6 (six) Wealthy Family’s (Net Worth- 2000 Cr/USD 500 Million upwards) external counsel for settling Company dispute & Real Estate matters. He has overseen divestment of the assets of companies in which the families have interest and thereby acted as counsel for 60 (sixty) transactions/memorandums/agreements focusing on resolving real estate disputes and internal audit matters including forensics. He is also an empaneled arbitrator with the several High Courts in India and the Indian Dispute Resolution Council, Permanent Member- Indian Council of Arbitration and a distinguished member of the Gujarat Maritime Cluster (Government of India Initiative), Mentor, Niti Aayog (Policy Arm) Government of India. |
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Accounting, Commercial Lease, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Family, Government, Hospitality, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Maritime, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Securities, Sports, Tax, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
Plotkin, James | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Ottawa | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
James Plotkin is a bilingual litigation and disputes lawyer in Gowling WLG’s Ottawa office, practising in the Advocacy and Intellectual Property groups. His practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration (international and domestic), intellectual property litigation and administrative law. Mr. Plotkin has argued before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court, as well as all levels of court in Ontario. He also regularly acts in international and domestic arbitrations. He is certified as a Qualified Arbitrator (Q.Arb) by the ADR Institute of Canada. In addition to his litigation and arbitration practice, Mr. Plotkin is involved in domain name dispute resolution, both as counsel and adjudicator. He is on the rosters of the Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre (CIIDRC) and Resolution Canada. Mr. Plotkin is also available to arbitrate commercial and intellectual property-related disputes. Mr. Plotkin has been published broadly on international and domestic commercial arbitration, copyright, trademarks and domain name disputes. He has contributed commentary on copyright and related issues on television, radio, podcasts and various national and regional English and French print media. Additionally, he co-authored a commentary on British Columbia’s international arbitration legislation and is co-authoring the next edition of Ontario’s arbitration legislation commentary. |
Mr. Plotkin has acted as counsel in various domestic and international commercial arbitrations and arbitration-related court proceedings (arbitrator appointment, award enforcement, appeals, applications to set aside etc.). He has adjudicated several domain name disputes as a sole panelist and as a member of tripartite panels. |
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Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing | ||
Pryles, Michael C. | International Arbitration | Melbourne | Victoria | AU (Australia) | ➽ |
Michael Pryles is one of the leading arbitrators in the Asia/Pacific Region. A recent survey by Cross-border Quarterly (July-September 2006) ranked him in the top 20 arbitration specialists in the world. He has sat as an arbitrator in over 200 cases in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. Michael has experience of both ad hoc and institutional commercial arbitrations under the UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC, SCC, JCAA, KLRCA and Swiss rules, and investor-state arbitrations under the ICSID rules, the ICSID Additional Facility Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules (BITs, NAFTA and state investor protection laws). These have involved investment, construction, energy, commercial, technology-transfer and joint venture disputes with sums claimed up to US $5 billion. Michael has published extensively. Previously he was a partner in a major Australian law firm and before that he held a named chair in Australia’s largest law school. He has also held numerous international appointments. |
Michael Pryles has extensive experience in International Arbitration. Selected appointments are: Chairman in a dispute between a US corporation and Chinese individual concerning the office supply industry. UNCITRAL Rules. Place of arbitration: Hong Kong. Amount in dispute: US$100 million, Party appointed arbitrator in a dispute between a US corporation and various Indonesian entities concerning the mining industry. SIAC Rules. Place of arbitration: Singapore. Amount in dispute: US$310 million. For full list, please see Michel Pryles web page. Michael Pryles has gained invaluable skills and knowledge through his domestic arbitration experience as well as mediation experience during his career (please see Michael Pryles web page). |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial | ||
Rau, Alan Scott | International Arbitration | Austin | TX (Texas) | US (United States) | ➽ |
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Harvard College, B.A., 1963, Phi Beta Kappa |
Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Employment | |||
Richler, Joel | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Richler has over 35 years of experience in commercial dispute resolution as a litigation counsel, arbitration counsel, mediation counsel, arbitrator (domestic & international) and mediator. Before establishing his independent arbitration and mediation practice, Mr. Richler was a senior partner in Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP and was, for a number of years, co-chair of that firm’s Toronto litigation group. |
Mr. Richler has long been an advocate of the use of arbitration as an efficient means of resolving commercial disputes. He obtained a Diploma in International Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and he has been admitted as a Fellow of that organization. Amongst other accomplishments, Joel is on the Canadian and International Rosters of the ICDR, a member of the ICC International Arbitration Committee, a member of the ADRIC, a member of the North American Users’ Counsel of the LCIA, a founding member of TCAS and a founding Fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers. Mr. Richler has been counsel in numerous ad hoc and institutional domestic and arbitrations and he has acted as an arbitrator in several arbitrations, as chair of arbitral panels and as sole arbitrator. For several years he has been listed in several categories in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Lexpert, Best Lawyers in Canada, Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration and Who’s Who. Joel is currently listed in Lexpert’s Directory of Leading Litigation Lawyers, Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada and its 2016 Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Mr. Richler firmly believes that arbitration and mediation are the best means through which commercial disputes can be resolved. He is committed to working with counsel and clients in order to “tailor make” processes designed to meet their cases and their interests. |
Mr. Richler has been recognized for many years in several professional directories and publications, in litigation, arbitration and other categories, including:
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Civil and Common Law degrees at McGill Law School LL.B., 1977-78 |
Accounting, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Maritime, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Technology | ||
Roberts, Carol L. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Experienced dispute resolution professional with a strong track record of providing competent and efficient mediation and arbitration services in a variety of areas, including: sports, employment, human rights, workers’ compensation, and real property assessment. Skilled communicator and negotiator with the ability to navigate different legal cultures and agreements when dealing with international arbitration cases. Recognized for degree of professionalism, respect, and compassion shown to tribunal participants. Accrued experience in the area of conflict of interest/ethics, fairness, & conducting harassment investigations. |
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B.A. Political Science Major, University of Calgary LL.B., University of Calgary Cornell University Summer Institute of International & Comparative Law, LL.M. credit courses, Paris, France Summer Seminar of International Law (International Economic Law), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Investor-State Mediation Training, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution |
Corporate Commercial, Employment, Government, Indigenous, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Robin A. Dodokin, Robin A. Dodokin | Domestic Arbitration, Expedited Procedures Arbitrator, Mediation | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Robin Dodokin is a conflict resolution expert who is committed to assisting parties repair and preserve relationships, where possible. Her conflict resolution expertise includes effectively representing creditors, financial institutions, debtors, court officers, shareholders, companies, trustees, and individuals in business and insolvency matters and resolving disputes between parties as a mediator or arbitrator. Robin brings her unique skills as a commercial litigator, insolvency lawyer, qualified mediator, and qualified arbitrator to her engagements. Robin is a persuasive and effective advocate. She is also creative and pragmatic. Robin has over 30 years of broad experience as a commercial litigation and insolvency lawyer to her work as an arbitrator and mediator. She has been appointed sole arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations involving commercial, business, and contractual disputes and written orders and arbitral awards. Robin is a director of the CIArb Canada Branch and the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (TCAS). In these roles her focus has as editor of the CIArb Canada Newsletter and organising the annual review of key arbitration cases and planning educational sessions for TCAS events including “Ask an Arbitrator” sessions. |
As an arbitrator, Robin has a deep understanding that parties require a fair and efficient process and reasoned decision on the issues subject to arbitration. She is committed to ensuring that the parties and their lawyers have confidence in the process. Robin has been appointed to arbitrate commercial, business, financial and contractual disputes. As a mediator, Robin appreciates that parties prefer to reach practical agreements rather than be involved in time consuming litigation. Robin’s conflict resolution processes are designed to fit the circumstances of the parties considering their business, legal and personal objectives and in doing so she uses her mediation, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills. She is a good listener with an inquisitive mind who is very able to reframe positions, test the stories and assist parties find creative agreements that meet the parties needs whenever possible. Robin has experience in managing both virtual and in person arbitrations. Robin is a co-founder and editor of Arbitration and Business Cases (https://arbitrationandbusinesscases.ca) which summarises important arbitration and business cases Dispute Resolution Training Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Canada – Accelerated Route to Fellowship – Fellow (FCIArb)
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Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) Qualified Arbitrator, ADR Institute (Q. Arb) Qualified Mediator, ADR Institute (Q. Med) LL.M. Alternate Dispute Resolution (Osgoode Hall Law School) LL.B. (University of Windsor) BA (University of Toronto) (Economics & Political Science |
Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Franchise, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Rogers, R. John | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Rogers is a Senior Professional with a unique combination of over 45 years of entrepreneurial, financial, legal and operational experience in the high technology, financial and legal industries. Special expertise in commercializing technology and in acquiring, financing, and building technology businesses. In the approximately 18 years prior to restricting his practice to third party administrative law, Mr. Rogers’ legal practice consisted of an extremely active M&A and corporate finance practice, acting for clients acquiring and financing businesses, and acting for underwriters and issuers working in jurisdictions throughout North America, Mexico, South America and Europe. |
Mr. Rogers founded and is the senior partner of R. John Rogers & Associates, a firm focused on providing mediation and arbitration services in the areas of securities and corporate finance, information technology, and biotechnology. With over 25 years of experience as an arbitrator and chair of administrative hearings, Mr. Rogers has acted as both panel chair and as sole arbitrator in matters ranging from the interpretation of joint venture agreements among public mining companies, to the resolution of disputes among shareholders in private companies, to the application of intellectual property agreements. His training includes:
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As Chair of Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada disciplinary panels, Mr. Rogers has written numerous decisions on behalf of the panels on which he has served. These decisions are published at IIROC. Mr. Rogers has served on both three member panels and acted as a single panelist both reviewing and authoring panel decisions as part of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority Domain Dispute Resolution Program. These decisions are published at CIRA. Mr. Rogers is appointed as a Hearing Delegate by the General Manager of the British Columbia Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch pursuant to section 5 of the British Columbia Liquor Control and Licensing Act for the purpose of hearing on behalf of the General Manager enforcement matters referred to him by the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch. These decisions are published at Enforcement hearing process – Province of British Columbia (gov.bc.ca). Mr. Rogers is appointed as the Administrator’s Delegate on behalf of the British Columbia Ministry of Health for hearings pursuant to section 5(1) of the Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 451. These hearing decisions are published on the Ministry of Health’s website at: Enforcement – Province of British Columbia (gov.bc.ca) Mr. Rogers is appointed as an arbitrator under the Canada-British Columbia Production Insurance Program administered by the Business Risk Management Branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture pursuant to the Insurance for Crops Act of British Columbia. These decisions are not published. Mr. Rogers is appointed as an Administrator’s Delegate for the British Columbia Healthy Living and Health Promotion Branch, 2019-Present. As a Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) former Trustee, Mr. Rogers actively participated in the drafting of the VanIAC Domestic Commercial Arbitration Rules.
Mr. Rogers has published articles and engaged in numerous presentations in his areas of expertise relating to the investment and technology industries. His articles have appeared in the Advocate, the magazine published by the Law Society of British Columbia, in the Monitor, the magazine published by the British Columbia Technology Industries Association, and in Retail Connections, the magazine published by Shelf space, the organization representing retail entrepreneurs in British Columbia and Alberta. |
University of British Columbia, B.A., 1965 |
Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Partnership and Shareholder, Technology | ||
Rojas, Romeo | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
After graduating from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 2000, Romeo served as a Trade Commissioner in the Canadian Foreign Service, where his postings included the Consulate of Canada in Dubai and the Embassy of Canada in Abu Dhabi. Romeo completed his articles with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s Trade Law Bureau in Ottawa, with a focus on international investment law. Romeo subsequently moved to Calgary to join Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP (BDP) as an associate in 2007. While at BDP, Romeo completed a LLM at the University of Calgary. He subsequently joined Bennett Jones LLP’s international arbitration group as an associate in 2016 and was elevated to partner in 2019. As counsel, Romeo’s practice was focused on arbitration in the energy and construction sectors. He has represented companies and states in domestic, international, and investor-state arbitrations under the world’s leading international rule systems, including ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and ICSID. Romeo is an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary, where he teaches arbitration law. He also publishes and speaks regularly on arbitration-related matters. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder | ||
Ruby, Peter | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Peter Ruby is a partner in Goodmans’ Dispute Resolution Group. He has a national and international practice focused on the litigation and arbitration of a wide variety of business disputes, including related to technology, energy, corporate, commercial, and restructuring matters. |
Peter Ruby acts as a sole and panel-member arbitrator and mediator with a focus on the technology and energy sectors, as well as corporate/commercial domestic and international disputes. He has adjudicated and mediated disputes between a wide variety of contracting parties in these sectors. Bringing together his expertise about energy and technology, he recently acted as a co-arbitrator with respect to a failed green energy project. His technology dispute resolution work includes software, cloud services, hardware, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, telecommunications, film, television, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, ecommerce and internet litigation, cryptocurrency and Canadian and cross-border arbitration and mediation. Peter has a balanced practice, representing multinational and entrepreneurial vendors of technology and services, along with many end-users of information technology. With respect to the energy sector, Peter has handled matters related to electricity generation (including renewable power), transmission, mergers and acquisitions, rates adjudication, access matters, joint venture disputes, leases, real estate development and distribution issues, and regulatory issues. With respect to privacy and data protection, Peter has handled business-related privacy disputes and regulatory matters and has considerable experience assisting clients with data breach incidents and cybersecurity. In addition to being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he has completed the arbitration “Gold Standard” course of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, spoken at the annual conference of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society and taught for many years at the University of Toronto Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School. |
Law Society of Ontario President, International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) Arbitrator/Mediator, Arbitration Place International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) International Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators, and roster member of ICDR Canada Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow Co-Lead of North America Committee, Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center Former Director and Member, Canadian Technology Law Association Member, The Advocates’ Society Member, Canadian Bar Association |
Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.M., 2000 Osgoode Hall Law School, J.D., 1994 |
Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Government, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Sandhu, Praveen | Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Prof. Praveen Sandhu, FCIArb is the Founder and Principal of Ekaas Resolve – a law firm focused on providing dispute resolution advisory for clients across Canada and in the United States. Prof. Sandhu practices extensively as a Mediator and Arbitrator and is listed on various rosters of mediators and arbitrators and has a number of affiliations in Canada and globally. She is also an adjunct professor teaching Business Law to post-graduate students in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. |
Arbitration Mediation British Columbia Court of Appeal British Columbia Supreme Court |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Entertainment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Sports | ||
Schaner, Lawrence S. | International Arbitration | Chicago | IL (Illinois) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Lawrence S. Schaner is an independent arbitrator, handling both international and domestic cases. He formed his own firm in 2017. Previously, he was a partner in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office, where he was the co-chair of the firm’s International Arbitration practice and a member of its Litigation Department. He has served since 2010 as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, teaching international arbitration. In his more than 30 years of practice as counsel and arbitrator, Mr. Schaner has amassed broad experience with complex, challenging, high-stakes business disputes. His experience includes matters relating to contract, tort, intellectual property, antitrust, securities, bankruptcy, tax, employment and insurance disputes. He has dealt with matters in fields ranging from aerospace and defense, government contracts, and hospitality to telecommunications, construction, manufacturing, technology, and energy. Mr. Schaner has often been called upon to provide cross-border legal assistance, such as the enforcement of arbitration awards and obtaining discovery for use in foreign legal proceedings. Mr. Schaner is a member of various panels of arbitrators, including the AAA, AIAC, BVI IAC, CIDRA, CIICA, CPR, ICDR, FedArb, HKIAC, KCAB, SIAC, VIAC, and VanIAC. He serves as an arbitrator in cases administered by the ICC, which does not maintain a panel of arbitrators. He has been widely recognized for his work in commercial and international arbitration by numerous publications, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal, and Legal Media Group Guides. Chambers USA has described him as “a very experienced commercial arbitration expert who is a sophisticated and fair person to deal with,” “excellent,” “tremendously knowledgeable,” and “highly respected.” The National Law Journal recognized him as an “ADR Champion,” in 2016. Best Lawyers in America awarded him “Chicago International Arbitration – Commercial Lawyer of the Year,” in 2014. |
Mr. Schaner has extensive experience as arbitrator and counsel in international and domestic arbitration matters. He has been appointed as an arbitrator in more than 60 cases. His matters as an arbitrator have ranged in value from less than $1 million to more than $1 billion. His recent matters have been under the rules of the AAA, CPR, ICC, ICDR, JAMS, LCIA, SCC, and UNCITRAL. More in-depth information about his experience is at https://schanerlegal.com/, reflecting his appointment in many high value and complex disputes, across a broad range of industries and sectors. Mr. Schaner’s training includes: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellowship Program, 2003; ICDR International Symposium in Advanced Case Management, 2008; and AAA Arbitration Fundamentals and Best Practices, 2015. He has spoken at approximately 100 conferences and other events throughout the world on topics pertaining to international arbitration and cross-border and domestic dispute resolution. |
Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, received President’s Prize for achieving the highest mark on the Award Writing Examination (2003) Founder, Chicago Chapter of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration Member, ICC USA Nominations Commission Member, International Bar Association (former Vice Chair, Secretary, and Publications Officer of the Arbitration Committee) Editor, Dispute Resolution International (IBA) (2012-2018) Member, LCIA North American Users Council (former Councilor) Co-Editor, International Arbitration in the United States (Kluwer 2018) William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot – Arbitrator at 10 moots; Northwestern University team coach (2010-2016) |
J.D. 1986, Stanford Law School |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Government, Hospitality, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Tax, Telecommunications | ||
Shevchuk, John H | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
John spent the early years of his career as an associate and then a partner in two corporate commercial law firms located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. Between 1990 and 1994, he was a partner in one of Canada’s national firms at its Vancouver office. In 1994, he began his own litigation boutique adopting the name Lex Pacifica Law Corporation in 2002. John’s professional experience includes arbitrator services, counsel before the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and numerous Administrative Tribunals including the Property Assessment Appeal Board, the Environmental Appeal Board, and rent review, construction and expropriation arbitration panels. While having broad experience in civil litigation and dispute resolution, John’s practice focus is real property assessment and valuation, construction and environmental law, expropriation, and other real property related dispute resolution. |
John has been a Chartered Arbitrator since 1989 and, in addition to his experience as an arbitrator in commercial arbitrations, has taught courses at the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Real Estate | ||
Ship, Adam | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Adam Ship is a mediator/arbitrator, commercial litigator and franchise lawyer with over 15 years’ experience gained at national law firm McCarthy Tétrault, where he was a litigation partner and led the firm’s franchise practice. In 2023, Adam decided to start his own law firm, where he could continue his commercial litigation and franchise practice, while also offering mediation and arbitration services. Adam’s experience spans all aspects of commercial litigation and franchise law. Adam is also an accomplished legal writer and scholar. He served as an Adjunct Professor of franchise law at the University of Toronto law school for four years and his legal writing on private law has been cited by courts across Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the BC Court of Appeal. |
Adam helps parties resolve disputes, whether through mediation or arbitration, across Canada and is listed as a mediator and arbitrator on the roster at ADR Chambers in Toronto. When it comes to mediation, Adam draws from his extensive experience mediating cases to help identify if there is an opportunity to bridge the gap between parties. Adam understands the nuances and complexities of resolving disputes and is committed to finding solutions wherever possible. When it comes to arbitration, Adam has extensive experience arbitrating cases as counsel and his legal writing has been cited by courts across Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the BC Court of Appeal. Adam has wide experience as litigation counsel, representing franchisors, franchisees and other private and public companies in complex commercial disputes, including contract claims, rescission cases, bad faith allegations, fraud cases, class actions, and competition litigation. |
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Hons. BA (High Distinction) – University of Toronto (2004) |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Franchise, Healthcare, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Short, Kerry Alan | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Kerry Short has practiced over thirty years as an insurance defence lawyer and has conducted many trials and appeals. Kerry has been appointed as a mediator and arbitrator on a range of disputes, from two-party personal injury, construction and insurance coverage cases to more complex multi-party litigation. |
Kerry has acted as sole arbitrator on a number of matters over the past 15 years. He has acted as mediator over the past 10 years on a wide range of cases. His training has included all civil CLE mediation courses and a one week mediation training course at Pepperdine University in 2017. |
Kerry is a former fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers, is recognized by his peers as a leading lawyer in professional liability with Lexpert, has been recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada in construction law since 2008, and has been named as a leading lawyer in insurance law since 2012. |
University of Victoria, B.A. (History) 1979 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Maritime, Personal Injury, Sports, Technology | ||
Silber, Herbert S | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Herb Silber was the senior litigation partner with Kornfeld Mackoff Silber and is now Associate Counsel at Kornfeld LLP. Herb’s career in litigation has primarily focused on real estate and contract litigation, lease arbitration and employment law. He co-counselled one of the largest commercial fraud cases in Canadian history, which included precedent-setting decisions on directors’ liability. Herb’s securities and corporate litigation experience includes shareholder oppression actions, proxy fights, and fraud claims. His successes in this area have resulted in decisions that have influenced corporate law and damage recovery principles. Herb’s employment law practice includes appearances as counsel in many wrongful dismissal trials and appeals, negotiations for severance packages and advising on group terminations. Herb has regularly appeared in both the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Herb has increasingly taken on the role of arbitrator and mediator in commercial disputes. He is a graduate of an intense five-day mediation workshop organized by the Harvard University, School of Negotiation. Herb brings to an arbitration or mediation a strong combination of experience, knowledge and understanding of the goals to be achieved. Herb was a member of the Board of Governors of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) from 2013 to July 31, 2018. He has been a long time member of the Audit and Finance Committee and a representative of the Board on the BCIT Foundation, which both manages assets for BCIT and raises private donations. In 2014, on the recommendation of the Justice Minister for the Government of British Columbia, Herb was appointed Queen’s Counsel in recognition of his distinguished legal career. From 2012 to 2018, Herb was a member of the BC Health Professions Review Board, appointed by the Province of B.C. The Review Board is an Administrative Tribunal established to provide independent reviews of certain decisions of self-governing health professional colleges. Herb has also served for many years on the boards and as an executive of a variety of non-profit organizations. |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Defamation, Employment, Entertainment, Healthcare, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Real Estate, Wills and Estates | ||
Simburg, Melvyn J. | International Arbitration | Seattle | WA (Washington) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Mel has served as an arbitrator for over 30 years and a mediator for over 20 years. He now devotes most of his time to mediating and arbitrating disputes as Simburg Dispute Resolution. He has advised clients and provided dispute resolution assistance for business, real estate, intellectual property (IP), web contracts, technology and rights licenses, and international transactions. He also facilitates partnerships and organizations with formation, dissolution, change and conflict resolution issues. Related to his areas of practice, he has served on Washington State and ABA committees, chaired seminars and written several articles. He has presented on mediation and arbitration matters numerous times. |
Mr. Simburg sits on national panels for the American Arbitration Association (Mediation; Large Complex Cases; Intellectual Property; Commercial Disputes), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, Upwork (online freelancer-client disputes), FINRA (securities disputes), VanIAC, CIIDRC for domain name disputes, the Rule 39.1 panel for the U.S.D.C. W.D. WA and the Mediation Panel for the Bankruptcy Court, King County Superior Court Arbitration, and KCBA LRS ADR Panel. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He serves as arbitrator or mediator in a variety of business-related disputes, many of which involve cross-border, multi-cultural and/or intellectual property matters. He has resolved a significant number of franchise, licensing and distribution disputes. He has served as a neutral in computer system installations involving up to several million dollars. Internet-related disputes have involved such matters as banking, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, trade dress issues, domain names. He is familiar with conducting and participating in remote hearings and online dispute resolution. He has resolved over 180 ODR arbitrations addressing copyright infringement and illegal download of entertainment media. Mr. Simburg has participated in over thirty ADR training sessions in the last 10 years. |
Mr. Simburg is the 2020-2022 Chair of the ADR Section of the Washington State Bar Association. He serves on State and ABA committees and chairs seminars and symposia here and abroad. He has served as a volunteer attorney for Washington Lawyers for the Arts, Seattle Public Theatre, Seward Park Art Studio and the Faces for Life Project of the Puget Sound Blood and Tissue Center. He was lead counsel for the firm’s representation of the “Best of the USSR Software and Technology Show” held in connection with the 1990 Good Will Games. Recent ADR presentations include “The Value of an Effective Apology in Resolving Business Disputes,” “Tips for a More Secure Environment for Online Dispute Resolution,” “ADR and Environmental Disputes,” “Domain Name Disputes,” “Introduction to Mediation,” “ADR and Business Disputes,” “Protecting IP Value in ADR,” “Interim Measures in Arbitration,” and “IP Disputes: Litigate, Arbitrate or Mediate?” |
Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1972 |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Partnership and Shareholder, Technology | ||
Singleton, John R | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Singleton has practiced law since 1969. He has concentrated on the areas of insurance, construction, professional liability and environmental matters, on behalf of property owners, architects, engineers, contractors, regulatory agencies and insurers. He has acted as counsel in several precedent-setting cases involving insurers, architects, engineers and other participants in the construction industry and has been counsel on a wide variety of problems related to environmental issues. Mr. Singleton is also a chartered arbitrator and mediator of complex commercial disputes, and is actively involved in both mediation and arbitration on behalf of his own clients and as a mediator/arbitrator retained by others. He also acts as a fairness advisor/monitor of procurement activities in a variety of settings. Mr. Singleton is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University Law School and the University of British Columbia Law School. |
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B. A., University of Alberta, 1966 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Insurance and Reinsurance | ||
Siwiec, John | Domestic Arbitration, Emergency Arbitrator, Expedited Procedures Arbitrator, International Arbitration | Ottawa | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
John has expertise in commercial disputes, including in the areas of international arbitration, commercial litigation, and intellectual property. He has acted for clients in relation to complex contractual disputes, including those arising from construction projects, shareholders’ agreements, franchise agreements, and the sale of goods and services, as well as in the recognition and enforcement of international arbitration awards and foreign judgments. John has experience as counsel and arbitrator in institutional arbitrations, including under the ICC, LCIA, ICDR, and ADRIC, as well as ad hoc proceedings, and has appeared before all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the Quebec Superior Court (Commercial Division). John is a member of the inaugural roster of NextGen Arbitrators of Arbitration Place and is a member of the AAA Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators. John has taught a course at the University of Ottawa’s Law Faculty in international arbitration and lectures at the university with respect to international business transactions. John’s professional background includes working at the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC), and Global Affairs Canada, as well with Canadian Lawyers Abroad (Bangladesh). John has served as President of Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP) and has been selected by Global Arbitration Review (GAR) for recognition in the Future Leaders section of Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2018-2024, and by Who’s Who Legal: Canada – Arbitration 2022-2023. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Franchise, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Securities, Technology | ||
Smith, Murray L. | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Smith has served as arbitrator in a wide variety of international and domestic commercial arbitrations as panel chairman, party appointed tribunal member and as sole arbitrator. He collaborated with Martin Hunter and Alan Redfern in writing the leading text “Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration” (2nd ed.) and is a frequent lecturer on the subject of international arbitration practice. Mr. Smith is also an English Barrister. As an arbitrator in complex commercial cases, Mr. Smith recognizes the fundamental importance of impartiality, due process and equal treatment of the parties while maintaining rigorous procedural oversight. Currently practicing out of offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, his practice is confined to sitting as an arbitrator in domestic and international commercial arbitration cases. He has acted as arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations under AAA (ICDR), ICC, VanIAC, ADR Institute Rules and UNCITRAL Rules. Mr. Smith’s arbitration work has involved disputes over the distribution of oil field production profits, gas supply contracts for power generation facilities, mining exploration concession agreements, royalty payments and rights to intellectual property associated with internet commerce, breaches of agreement for the purchase of proprietary technology, computer software use and licensing, intellectual property and technology transfer agreements, domestic and international transportation and shipping matters, shareholder rights and the interpretation of commercial and construction contracts. |
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Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Maritime, Transportation | ||
Smith Dedrick, Katherine | International Arbitration | Denver | Colorado | US (United States) | ➽ |
Katherine’s broad experience in the domestic and international legal and business sectors, as well as a faculty member of CIArb’s Accelerated Route to Fellowship Program (teaching international arbitration), provides a solid background to serve as a neutral. Katherine is an experienced commercial litigator, arbitrator, and the co-founder of an international disaster and insurance consulting company based in the US and Asia Pacific (since sold to an Australian group). She has handled hundreds of complex commercial matters throughout the US and in other countries including New Zealand, Australia, and Chile. She has been lead counsel appearing before numerous US federal district and state courts, appellate courts and arbitration panels, as well as lead legal consultant on international disputes in New Zealand, Australia and other countries regarding complex commercial contract, construction, finance, insurance coverage (all lines including property, liability, directors and officers (D&O), duty to defend, primary/excess, errors and omissions (E&O), professional liability, cyber, claim handling), reinsurance, disaster remediation, environmental remediation, contamination, bad faith, and other matters. She has handled domestic and international arbitration, mediation, trials and appeals in both the civil and common law arenas. Katherine also worked with a foreign government to create arbitral procedures to resolve commercial disputes more quickly, after natural disasters devastated the country and court system. Katherine has significant arbitration experience both as a party representative and neutral. As a party representative, she was lead counsel on complex insurance, reinsurance, environmental contamination, bad faith, and other commercial contract matters. As a neutral she has been a panel member in complex commercial financial disputes, and a sole arbitrator in property insurance, commercial business, and consumer matters. Katherine is a neutral with the American Arbitration Association, an arbitrator with FINRA, and a Fellow and recent past Chair of the North American Branch (NAB) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In addition to her law degree, Katherine received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business studying in the US, Singapore, and Barcelona. As Chair of NAB, Katherine has been involved in numerous presentations on international arbitration including presenting in Samoa, Brazil, and with CIArb members of other countries. She is also a member of CIArb’s Faculty, teaching international arbitration for its Accelerated Route to Fellowship Program. |
In 2022, Katherine participated in the following international arbitration presentations/conferences: CIArb’s Congress in London, panel presenter at California’s International Arbitration Week, panel presenter at the University of Pittsburg, School of Law on international arbitration, presented at the International Americas’ Conference in Miami (with Brazil, Bahama, Aruba, Peru, and other countries), and at the Capacity Sharing Program in Brazil. As Chair of NAB, she oversaw the training of members in international arbitration. Katherine has been a party representative and neutral involving commercial contracts and other matters, and US domestic contracts and disputes, having handled matters in civil and common law arenas. See above. |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Financial Services, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury | ||
Snarch, Gary S. | Appeal Tribunal, Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Gary Snarch is a chartered arbitrator (C.Arb), mediator and lawyer. He has been providing arbitral and mediation services on corporate/commercial, construction professional negligence and insurance related matters for the last 20 years. Gary has also practiced law as a commercial litigator for 40 years appearing before all Courts including the Supreme Court of Canada and before numerous regulatory bodies. He was a senior partner with the law firm of Snarch and Allen before joining Taylor Veinotte Sullivan as Associate Counsel in 2006. He has been recognized for a number of years by LEXPERT as a leading litigation practitioner, and by Canada Benchmark as a Litigation Star. As counsel, Gary Snarch has appeared before the:
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BCL, McGill University, 1978 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Insurance and Reinsurance, Securities | ||
Somjen, Gabriel M. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Gabriel Somjen KC is a labour lawyer focusing on neutral work such as arbitration and mediation. Admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1975. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 and a Juris Doctor in 1974. |
He has adjudicated or mediated several hundred cases. He also teaches ADR Techniques to law students. He has experience in all areas of labour and employment law. |
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B.A., University of Toronto, 1969 |
Corporate Commercial, Employment, Labour | ||
Streiner, Scott | Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation | Ottawa | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
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Consumer, Employment, Government, Indigenous, Labour, Maritime, Transportation | ||
Stringer Hughes, Timothy | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Timothy Hughes is an independent lawyer and arbitrator based in Calgary, Alberta. He has broad experience in complex disputes, including commercial and investor-State arbitration, and is licensed to practice law in Alberta and the US States of California and New York. In a decade of practice with leading international law firms in Washington D.C., Hong Kong, and New York City, Tim worked with clients to resolve complex cross-border disputes in a range of industries. His sector experience includes power generation, oil & gas, mining, infrastructure projects, pharmaceuticals, aviation, hospitality, and manufacturing. Within these commercial sectors, Tim’s experience includes disputes involving complex multi-party/multi-contract scenarios, IP licensing, M&A transactions, joint ventures, commercial fraud, shareholder claims, and tax. Tim regularly publishes on Canadian and international arbitration jurisprudence and has been a guest lecturer on international arbitration at the McGill University Faculty of Law. He regularly mentors rising arbitration professionals. He is active in the Calgary community, including service on the Calgary Subdivision and Development Appeal Board and as a volunteer with Calgary Legal Guidance. |
Tim has counseled clients in matters governed by the national laws of civil and common law jurisdictions, including England & Wales, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, California, Nevada, Washington, Alberta, Ghana, Ethiopia, France, South Korea, the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam, Thailand, Albania, and the United Arab Emirates. He has been involved in matters seated in, among others, London, New York City, Paris, The Hague, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He has also advised on matters arising under public international law, including inter-State and investor-State arbitrations involving sovereigns from five continents. He is on the list of arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. In addition to extensive professional engagements with clients around the world, he has lived and worked in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and Canada. He is a participant in the 2023-2024 ICC’s Advanced Academy course for arbitrators and has taken the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals advanced decision writing course. |
Contributor, Arbitration Matters (www.arbitrationmatters.com) Young ICCA, ICCYAAF, HK45, Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, Young ICCA Mentoring Programme (Group Advisor) |
Admitted to the Alberta Bar – 2022 Admitted to the New York State Bar – 2018 Admitted to the California Bar-2010 J.D., Certificate of Specialization in International Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law-2010 B.A., Sociology, University of California, San Diego-2007 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Hospitality, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Life Sciences (Biotech, Pharma & Medical Devices), Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Tax | ||
Surtani, Donny | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator, Mediation | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Donny Surtani is a commercial arbitration and mediation specialist based in Toronto, Canada, and practising internationally with particular focus on North America, the United Kingdom, India and South East Asia. He is a dual-qualified barrister (England and Ontario), and has over 20 years of legal and business experience. He accepts instructions to act as a neutral or as a party representative in international commercial arbitration and in mediation. He was formerly a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, having spent 15 years in their London office. His legal practice focuses on complex commercial arbitration and litigation in the financial services, private equity, energy and telecommunications sectors, and has included an in-house secondment to a large conglomerate business based in Mumbai, India, with interests in energy, power, shipping and construction. Prior to his legal career, Donny was a Chartered Management Accountant and worked in the energy industry in finance and treasury. As such, his legal practice has often involved M&A and shareholder claims, banking disputes, accounting fraud issues and disputes with complex quantum or valuation aspects. Donny has experience of living and working in Canada, England, India and Sri Lanka, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics, and a solicitor-advocate and barrister in England & Wales. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a mediator accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London, and a member of the ICC Canada arbitration committee. He served on the ICC’s Task Force on Arbitration and ADR (2020-2023). He also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Investment Committee of a well-known litigation fund based in London, and has been a guest lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto and the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators. Donny has been widely published, and co-authored the leading practitioner text Class Actions in England & Wales (Sweet & Maxwell, 2018). He is an Advisory Board member for the Centre for the Online Resolution of Disputes (CORD). |
Donny is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has appeared as counsel in numerous arbitrations as well as in the English High Court and Court of Appeal. He has sat as arbitrator in cases involving a variety of subject matters and legal issues. His arbitration experience includes disputes seated in London, The Hague, Singapore and New Delhi, and he has advised on disputes under the laws of England, Ontario, Alberta, New York and India. His cases have often involved complex multi-party and multi-contract scenarios. He is on lists or panels of arbitrators at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, in addition to VanIAC. In mediation, he has trained with and is accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK). He has acted in several cases involving multiple parties, multiple days and/or co-mediators. As a neutral, he has acted as sole or joint mediator or conciliator in over half a dozen cases. |
Publications: see list on website at www.surtani.net England & Wales: Solicitor (2006), Solicitor-Advocate (2008), Barrister (2020) Law Society of Ontario: Barrister and Solicitor (2020) |
LL.B (Hons), London School of Economics: 2003 – LSE Hughes Parry Prize (Law of Obligations: 2001) Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Associate Member): 2001-2003 – CIMA Leverhulme Prize – Management Accounting Applications: 1998 |
Accounting, Commercial Lease, Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Financial Services, Insurance and Reinsurance, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Securities, Technology, Telecommunications | ||
Sussman, Edna | International Arbitration | Scarsdale | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
Edna Sussman is a full time arbitrator and mediator, the Distinguished ADR Practitioner in Residence at Fordham University School of Law and the principal of SussmanADR LLC. She was formerly a litigation partner at the law firm of White & Case LLP and of counsel at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney LLP. Represented clients and served as an arbitrator and mediator in complex international and domestic commercial disputes involving claims or determinative of transactions ranging in value from $1 million to $3 billion. |
Served as an arbitrator (chair, panelist and sole arbitrator) in over 100 complex multi-million dollar arbitrations and over 100 complex mediations. Handled arbitrations under various institutional rules and adhoc. Serves as a court certified mediator.
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Columbia Law School (J.D. 1973); Barnard College (B. A. 1970) |
Accounting, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Franchise, Insurance and Reinsurance, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures | ||
Tackaberry, John | International Arbitration | London | Greater London | UK (United Kingdom) | ➽ |
During his career at the Bar, John Tackaberry, KC has undertaken a wide range of work. In more recent years as an advocate he has had a substantial degree of experience in building and civil engineering work, adjudication and DRB work. As well as work in the UK, he has a great deal of expertise in international disputes throughout Europe, the USA, the West Indies, Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India and South America. He is a member of, or has been admitted to the Bars of California, Ireland, Hong Kong (ad hoc), Trinidad & Tobago (ad hoc) and New South Wales and is heavily involved in ICC arbitrations. |
Work at the UNCC involved five years of intensive dispute resolution on a paper only basis utilising a locally base legal team. 196 construction claims were addressed. The total value of the claims exceeded $3 billion. |
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B.A., University of Cambridge, 1962 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Sports | ||
Thauli, Harveen | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Harveen Thauli has over 27 years of experience in private practice and regulatory environments. Harveen’s experience includes practising corporate/securities law, administrative law, professional conduct and sports law. She has written comprehensive legal submissions on allegations of breaches of securities legislation and codes of professional conduct and represented clients before regulatory bodies. Harveen is also a Chartered Arbitrator who presides over arbitrations provincially, nationally and internationally. She enjoys the challenge of analyzing complex legal issues and distilling them into plain English in her written decisions. |
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Juris Doctor (J.D.) University of Western Ontario (May 1995) |
Corporate Commercial, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Personal Injury, Securities, Sports | ||
Tichauer , Paul | Domestic Arbitration | Toronto | ON (Ontario) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Dr. Paul A. Tichauer is an independent commercial arbitrator specializing in the resolution of disputes in the metallurgical, industrial, materials, manufacturing, engineering and technology sectors. Prior to becoming a commercial arbitrator, Dr. Tichauer enjoyed a successful C-Suite career with a number of companies providing highly engineered products, processes and services in Canada, the USA and Europe. |
Founding Chair of the Canada Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Dr. Tichauer’s arbitral appointments include sitting as Sole Arbitrator with the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC in Paris for a complex multi-party international dispute concerning the failure of an aircraft jet engine, as Sole Arbitrator with ICDR-Canada and as a Public Arbitrator with FINRA – the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in the USA. In 2022, Dr. Tichauer received the CIArb Canada Award for Distinguished Service in Canadian Arbitration. Dr. Tichauer is Co-Chair of the annual CanArbWeek conference and currently serves as Vice President of the Standing Committee of ICC’s International Center for ADR in Paris. In addition, he is a member of ICC Canada’s Arbitration Committee, of the ADR Institute of Canada, of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society and is an arbitrator with ICDR Canada. He was designated by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as their Observer at the UNCITRAL Commission Working Group lll on Investor-State Dispute Resolution Reform. Dr. Tichauer has served as an arbitration tutor with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator’s Advanced Route to Fellowship programs in Vancouver, New York City and Toronto. He was also co-chair of CIArb Canada’s Annual Arbitration Symposia in Toronto in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Dr. Tichauer has participated as an Arbitrator and a Tribunal Chair at Vis Moot Competitions in Vienna and Hong Kong for six years as well as a Judge at the ICC Mediation Competitions in Paris since 2015. In addition, Dr. Tichauer has spoken about arbitration at the Canadian Conference of Metallurgists and about ICC Dispute Boards and Experts at the DRBF Conference in Washington. |
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A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Tichauer has a B. Eng. (Metallurgy) from McGill University, an MA (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) from Oxford University, a PhD (Metallurgy) from MIT and an MBA with Distinction (Finance) from Pace University. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) since 2013, Dr. Tichauer successfully completed the Diploma Program in International Commercial Arbitration offered by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators at Oxford University as well as both ADR and Advanced ADR training in mediation with Stitt Feld Handy in Toronto. |
Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Technology | ||
Tselentis, Michael | International Arbitration | London | Greater London | UK (United Kingdom) | ➽ |
Michael Tselentis Kc was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Gray’s Inn in November 1995, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2003. He was elected a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2008. He practices as a Barrister and Arbitrator in a broad commercial field which includes complex contractual disputes, insurance, shipping, commodities and international trade, mining and energy, engineering and construction, banking and professional negligence. He is also an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa (admitted to practice in 1978 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1989), and practised at the Johannesburg Bar where he was a leading commercial silk, from 1978 to 2000. In 1993-1994 he was the Chairman of the Johannesburg Bar. He advises in London on all aspects of South African commercial, insurance, mining and construction law, and accepts appointments as an expert witness in South African law in Court proceedings and arbitrations. He regularly accepts arbitration appointments in international commercial disputes. He is a Chartered Arbitrator (UK), and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa), and the Botswana Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the ICC (UK), the LCIA, ARIAS (UK) and a supporting member of the LMAA. His panel memberships include the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Dubai International Arbitration Centre, Kuala Lumpur Regional Arbitration Centre, Chinese European Arbitrators’ Centre, Arbitration Foundation of South Africa, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association, Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) , Mauritius Permanent Arbitration Court, Vancouver Maritime Arbitrators’ Association, the Piraeus Association for Maritime Arbitration, and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration. |
Lecturer in law at South African Universities, 1972-3, 1975 |
University of Cape Town, BA (distinction), LLB (first class honours), 1971 |
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Tucker, Diane E. | Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Diane E. Tucker is the sole proprietor of DET et al., in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She holds the Chartered Arbitrator credential issued by the ADR Institute of Canada, and is a member of the arbitrators’ rosters of the ADR Institutes of Canada and of BC, and the Surrey Board of Trade. She is also an arbiter with Just Resolve!, a dispute resolution group located in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a member of the State Bar of California. She holds Certified Information Privacy Professional credentials for both Canada and the US. She also offers workshops on confidentiality, privacy and conflicts of interest as well as training seminars on other arbitration, ethics and privacy issues. Her law practice has included work in intellectual property, privacy and security in the high tech videogames industries. |
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Corporate Commercial, Entertainment, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Technology | ||
Tweedy, Mark Lee | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
I was called to the BC Bar in 1982. I practiced civil litigation for over 30 years. I started working as mediator in 2004. I devoted my practice to mediation, arbitration and adjudication in 2014. I received my Chartered Mediator designation in 2017, and my Chartered Arbitrator designation in 2020. I have mediated well in excess of fifteen hundred civil claims involving family businesses, personal injury, professional liability, construction, aviation, insurance (property, casualty, life and disability), shareholders’ and joint venture partners’ disputes, real estate, employment, and wills and estates. I have particular expertise mediating disputes where there is high emotional content. My mediation experience ranges from relatively simple two party disputes to complex multi-party litigation. I have provided services to clients in the public and private sectors, including non-profits and community based organisations. My arbitration experience includes under insured motorist claims, and commercial, construction, and insurance disputes. I also have substantial experience sitting as a court appointed adjudicator in class action matters. I am a volunteer with, and a board member, and the President of, the BC Lawyers Assistance Program. I have assisted in interventions, acted as counsel to lawyers in discipline, credentials, and practice standards matters before the Law Society of British Columbia, and acted as a peer counsellor to other lawyers. |
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Wahl, David J. | Expedited Procedures Arbitrator | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
David helps clients solve their most complex international arbitrations. He has particular expertise in construction disputes, drawing on his business and executive experience in the construction industry before entering the field of law. Clients benefit from his organizational efficiency and team management experience on large-scale projects around the world. David represents major institutional clients in complex multi-party litigation and international commercial arbitration with respect to significant commercial disputes. He has appeared as litigation counsel before all levels of courts in Alberta, and has acted as arbitration counsel under the world’s leading international arbitration rule systems, including ICC, LCIA, ADRIC, and UNCITRAL, as well as in numerous ad hoc arbitrations. |
Over the last decade, David has been counsel in many multi-million-dollar international commercial arbitrations under the world’s leading international arbitration rule systems, including ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL, as well as in numerous ad hoc arbitrations. David has also been counsel in several domestic arbitrations, and has appeared before all levels of courts in Alberta on arbitration related mandates. David teaches International Commercial Arbitration at the University of Calgary Law School. |
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Commercial Lease, Construction, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Real Estate, Technology, Transportation | ||
Wattie, Dawn A. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Surrey | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Dawn completed a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Victoria in 1984 where she initially developed an interest in indigenous matters and First Nations governance followed by an LLB from the University of Windsor in 1988. She articled with Clark Wilson in Vancouver and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1989. Dawn completed her mediation training in 1992 and 1993 and became a qualified mediator in 2019. Her first position was a 6-month contract commencing in May 1989 to work on the BCGEU’s arbitration backlog project. She was hired by the BCGEU as a staff representative in the Victoria Area office in October 1989 and was assigned responsibility for public service workers in Local 1201 (Administrative Component), Local 201 (Healthcare Component) and Component 401 (Corrections). As part of these responsibilities, Dawn handled grievances up to including arbitration hearings, hours of work umpire hearings, harassment complaints investigations and proceedings and labour board hearings and was responsible for master agreement component and other related sectoral bargaining. In 1992, Dawn was appointed to the BCGEU’s bargaining integrity project that participated in the Commission of Inquiry in the Public Service and Public Sector (Korbin Commission). She was then assigned to position of Coordinator, Special Projects and participating as the senior BCGEU representative on the restructuring of the Ministry of Health to create the health authorities and the labour adjustment strategy for the transfer of public service employees into the health authorities. Dawn was also responsible for all labour relation matters associated with restructuring or reorganization activities within public service ministries for the period of 1993 to 1996. She participated as BCGEU labour representative in the Governor General’s study tour in 1995 in which her work group toured Western Quebec to examine employer-employee relationships across private sector, public sector and not-for-profit sector in wide variety of organizations. In late 1996, she left the BCGEU. In January 1997 she established Dawn Wattie Law Corporation. In March 1997, Dawn participated in a review of the contracted Social Services Sector led by Doug Allen, former Deputy Minister. From 1997 to present, Dawn has continued to provide labour relations and employment law advice, act as counsel on arbitration and Labour Relations Board application matters, undertake private sector collective bargaining and representation continued to undertake investigative and mediation services on harassment complaints for private and public sector clients. From 2000 to 2005, Dawn lived and worked within the WSANEC peoples territorial lands on Vancouver Island. For this period, she provided advice to the WSANEC peoples (Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum and Pauquachin band and councils) regarding matters related to collective bargaining, employment and policy for the Lauwelnew Tribal School, band and council matters, and for child and family services. She also worked with Nuu-chah-nuth Economic Development Commission on policy matters. From 2001 to 2006, Dawn was the corporate solicitor for the University of Victoria’s Innovation and Development Corporation working with academics and industry to bring innovation to the market. Since 1997, She have built a corporate commercial practice that assists clients, locally, nationally and internationally to bring innovative products and services to the market including providing advice on business structure, restructuring, merger and acquisitions, financing, commercial transactions including licensing, manufacturing and distribution, drafting shareholder agreements, assisting in resolution of shareholder and partner disputes and corporate succession planning. |
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Weisburg, Henry | Appeal Tribunal, International Arbitration | Brooklyn | NY (New York) | US (United States) | ➽ |
In a career spanning four decades, independent arbitrator Henry Weisburg has led numerous headline-making international disputes, including both commercial and investor-state arbitrations, before all major arbitral bodies. Mr. Weisburg has handled disputes in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, regularly advising on claims arising from complex projects and joint ventures, expropriations, financings and cross-border investments, and construction disputes. In his litigation practice, Mr. Weisburg has regularly appeared in cases concerning the enforcement of arbitration clauses and awards, in wider arbitration-related proceedings, and in complex international disputes. |
In addition to advocacy in many arbitrations, Mr. Weisburg has sat as an arbitrator in cases involving, for example, M&A closing disputes; aircraft component supply agreements; law firm dissolutions; and other matters. He has also participated in many arbitration training and continuing legal education programs, as both an instructor and a participant; he is a graduate of ICC’s Advanced Arbitration Academy. He has sat on the Boards of multiple arbitration-related bodies (e.g., the American Arbitration Association; the New York International Arbitration Center) and task forces (e.g., ICC Task Force on the Revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration; New York State Bar Association Task Force on New York Law in International Matters). |
Shearman & Sterling, now A&O Shearman (associate, 1977 – 1984; partner, 1985 – 2021; of counsel, 2022 – 2024) Member and Practice Group Leader, Litigation Group; Founder and Member, Arbitration Group Member, Policy Committee (multiple terms) Chair, Conflicts & Ethics Committee Chair, Pro Bono Committee Global Lawyer of the Year (2012) Global Dispute of the Year – Awarded to Shearman & Sterling for handling of Dow Chemical Company v. Kuwait arbitration Litigator of the Week – For Second Circuit affirmance of Ometto v. ASA Bioenergy Holding A.G., No. 12-4022(L) (2d Cir. Jan. 7, 2014 |
BA, Trinity College; JD, New York University |
Accounting, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Financial Services, Insurance and Reinsurance, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures | ||
Welsh, Michael F. | Domestic Arbitration, Mediation, Underinsured Motorist Protection (UMP) | Penticton | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
I am a lawyer with 40 years of litigation experience, having been lead counsel on over a thousand hearings, trials and appeals in all levels of court in this province and in the Supreme Court of Canada, including some 50 formally reported decisions and well over 100 posted on CanLii. Through my professional experience and as a member of professional, wine industry and community organizations I am well-versed in in problem and dispute resolution and in understanding and working with people in difficult situations toward a positive outcome. An effective communicator, I have the ability to assess problems expeditiously and to relate to people from all walks of life. As one who sees life as an opportunity to learn, I never let my mind get stale, but rather seek to educate myself in a wide range of areas. I have taken that learning and passed it on writing, including articles in the Advocate, Bartalk and Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal magazines, as author of the Advocate Wine Column and serving as a faculty member in many continuing legal educational conferences and seminars. I have also authored a number of decisions for the BCCRT and Law Society. |
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B.A. (cum laude in philosophy): Cornell University, 1975 |
Construction, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Government, Indigenous, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Wills and Estates | ||
Whitsitt, Elizabeth | Expedited International Arbitration | Calgary | AB (Alberta) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Elizabeth Whitsitt is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law teaching and researching in international economic law and dispute resolution. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is appointed to Canada’s roster for The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) Chapter 10 Binational Panels and a Canadian Member of USMCA’s Joint Public Advisory Committee to Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Professor Whitsitt received her LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University and her PhD from the University of Calgary. Professor Whitsitt has published and presented extensively in the areas of international trade, investment, and international dispute settlement. She is a former scholar-in-residence at Wilmer Hale LLP and the recipient of a Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, Killam Memorial Scholarship and the Marc Lalonde Prize for Excellence in International and Commercial Arbitration. She is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and articled and practiced law as a civil litigator at a national law firm prior to pursuing her graduate degree. |
Prior to moving to academia, Professor Whitsitt practiced as a civil litigator at a national law. She has since written and presented extensively on dispute resolution in the international economic law context and has taught dispute resolution courses. In addition to being qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrations, she has also served as an expert member on the Alberta Law Reform Institute’s Uniform International Commercial Arbitration Act Project Advisory Committee. Professor Whitsitt is the Chairperson of the University of Calgary’s Mooting Program where she oversees students gaining skills in a diverse array of advocacy settings. She also co-coaches the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team. |
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University of Calgary, Faculty of Law |
Commercial Lease, Consumer, Corporate Commercial, Energy, Government | ||
Wickett, Robert V | Domestic Arbitration | Vancouver | BC (British Columbia) | CA (Canada) | ➽ |
Mr. Wickett, was born and raised in Vancouver. He is a trial lawyer specializing in commercial and administrative litigation with an emphasis on environmental matters. He also has extensive experience in real estate and leasing litigation and serves as BC real estate litigation counsel for one of Canada’s major food retailers. Mr. Wickett also acts in employment and human rights tribunal matters and as counsel in the criminal courts for those charged with regulatory and commercial crime offences. In his environmental law practice he has performed many environmental due diligence and compliance assessments of forestry, mining, fisheries and manufacturing businesses. Mr. Wickett is also Vice Chair of the Environmental Appeal Board, Vice Chair of the Forest Appeals Commission, and a member of the Oil and Gas Appeal Tribunal of British Columbia. In this capacity he has written numerous judgments on environmental, forestry and First Nations issues. He has appeared as counsel in all levels of court in British Columbia and before various administrative tribunals. Mr. Wickett served two terms as managing partner of MacKenzie Fujisawa. His most recent term as managing partner concluded in April 2020. |
Mr. Wickett is a member of the Canadian and B.C. councils of administrative tribunals and have annually, since 2003, taken a variety of dispute resolution courses from these organizations in addition to those offered by the Environmental Appeal Board office including: Ethics |
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Bachelor of Commerce, UBC, 1982 |
Commercial Lease, Corporate Commercial, Employment, Indigenous, Real Estate | ||
Wöss, Herfried | International Arbitration | Mexico | Miguel Hidalgo | MX (Mexico) | ➽ |
2013 – : Wöss & Partners, PLLC (Arbitration & Trade), partner, Washington DC (Special Legal Consultant pending) 2012-2013: Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA 2002: Wöss & Partners, S.C. (Attorneys at Law), partner, Mexico 1998-2002: Obregon, Quintana y Wöss, S.C. (Attorneys at Law), partner, Mexico 1992-1998: Bremer, Quintana, Obregón y Mancera, S.C. (Attorneys at Law), Mexico 1998: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Mexico Counsel to the General Directorate for International Affairs and preparation of a manual about dispute settlement under the NAFTA parallel agreement on labour co-operation 1991-1992: Auritec Asesores, S.A., Mexico Consultant in firm of a former World Bank/IFC official 1991: Legal Service of the EU-Commission, Brussels Stagiaire in the “Equipe” for External Relations with Prof. Pieter Jan Kuijper 1989/1990: GATT-Secretariat, Geneva Research work 1990-1991: Civil and Criminal Court Linz, Austria, Trainee |
More than 20 arbitrations as president, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator or party counsel in commercial and investment arbitration with respect to infrastructure projects, gas and oil pipelines, power plants and energy distribution, oil platforms, industrial joint ventures, Public-Private Partnerships, EPC turnkey contracts, including FIDIC contracts, M&A, franchise agreements, international sales agreements, the banking, financial, telecommunications, automotive and construction industries. International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration. |
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Doctor of Jurisprudence (with distinction), Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (International and European Economic Law), 1995 |
Construction, Corporate Commercial | ||
Zhang, Corey “Hui” | International Arbitration, Mediation | Chengdu | Sichuan | CN (China) | ➽ |
Ms. Zhang Hui is the founder, director and chief lawyer of PinkMemo Law Firm, a bilingual multicultural lawyer arbitrator and mediator with professional and management experience. In her 16-year legal practice, she mainly serves as a trial lawyer, appellate advocate, arbitration counsel and legal consultant. She has appeared as an advocate in numerous complex cases before Chinese courts, before administrative and regulatory tribunals, and before international and domestic commercial arbitration tribunals seated in China. In addition to the aforementioned, Ms. Zhang Hui is an active arbitrator and mediator practicing in, but not limited to, international and domestic matters in the commercial, corporate, company law, foreign investment, international and real estate fields. |
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“About the Oncoming China Arbitration Association”, the Seventh China Arbitration Conference, 2015 |
Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan Province, China LL.B, 1987-1991 |
Corporate Commercial, Labour, Personal Injury, Real Estate | ||
Zhang, Jerry-Yulin | International Arbitration | Dongcheng District | Hebei | CN (China) | ➽ |
Jerry Yulin Zhang has many years of experience in international intellectual property law, corporate/commercial and dispute resolution, particularly in Chinese law and its application in cross border investment and economic activities. In the area of intellectual property, Mr Zhang has advised clients in intellectual property applications, IP dispute resolution, administrative enforcement procedure, copyright and trademark litigations and unfair competition matters, top-level domain names, domain names in .hk and .cn domains and their dispute resolution, and strategies for protection of intellectual property overseas. In dispute resolution, Mr Zhang has acted as counsel in prosecuting complaints, claims or acting on the defense/counterclaim in various foreign related cases. As arbitrator, he has accepted many appointments as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator or presiding arbitrator or panelist in handling international arbitration or domain name matters with China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) or Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). In investment law area, Mr Zhang is familiar with direct investment, project financing, construction contracts, corporate mergers and acquisition and general corporate and commercial law, including general commercial project contract review, risk control, compliance and international taxation avoidance matters etc. |
Jerry Yulin Zhang has acted as arbitrator in nearly one hundred arbitration cases either as a co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator or presiding arbitrator. The arbitration cases include many types of disputes, including sale of goods, joint venture disputes, disputes arising from real estate development contracts, licensing agreements, distributorship agreements, construction turnkey agreements, advertising agency agreements, hotel management contracts, equity transfer agreements, etc. Most of the disputes involve Chinese companies and other foreign multinational companies. He received mediation training in Stockholm, Sweden and is an Accredited Mediator of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in London. |
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PhD, UBC Law, Canada, 2017 |
Corporate Commercial, Intellectual Property and Licensing | ||
Zhao Rong, Ooi | International Arbitration | Taikoo Place | Hong Kong Island | HK (Hong Kong) | ➽ |
Zhao Rong’s diverse commercial practice covers commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, private wealth, financial services, offshore markets, and international trade. He frequently advises companies, private equity funds, banks, directors and shareholders in complex, high value, multi-jurisdictional disputes. He is qualified to practise law in Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, England & Wales, the British Virgin Islands, and Ireland. He is also a CEDR accredited mediator, a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAIADR) and a full member (TEP) of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. In addition to representing parties at proceedings, he also accepts appointment as an arbitrator. He is a panel arbitrator of several arbitral institutions. |
Advised a Fortune Global 500 Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, in an arbitration against a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer. Advised, as coordinating counsel, a Shenzhen headquartered Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and systems company in a claim against an Uzbekistan company following the supply of telecommunication equipment in Tashkent. Sat as a co-arbitrator in HKIAC disputes between shareholders pertaining to the sale of medicinal products in the PRC. |
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National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Laws (2005) |
Financial Services, Maritime, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures, Partnership and Shareholder, Transportation, Wills and Estates | ||
Zuleta, Eduardo | International Arbitration | Bogota | Capital District | CO (Colombia) | ➽ |
Eduardo Zuleta presently serves as Vice President of the ICC Court of Arbitration and has been appointed to the ICSID panel of arbitrators by the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council. Mr. Zuleta is past co-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA and a member of the court of arbitration of the LCIA. Eduardo has been chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and counsel in international commercial arbitrations under ICC, UNCITRAL and ICDR Rules in matters involving private and State parties and related to construction, oil & gas, infrastructure, utilities, distribution, contracts for decontamination, commercial contracts in general and project finance. Venues of the arbitrations include Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, New York, Miami, Paris, London, and The Hague. Mr. Zuleta has acted as advisor and arbitrator in investment arbitration under ICSID – including arbitrations and annulment committees- UNCITRAL and ICC Rules. Eduardo is an attorney from Universidad del Rosario with post graduate degree in financial law, Diploma of Laws in Dispute Resolution from University of London. Eduardo Zuleta has been in house counsel to the Colombian Banking Association, director of the International Department of Bancolombia, associate of and international partner of a US law firm and founding partner of Zuleta Abogados Asociados. Eduardo is highly and consistently recommended by specialized publications and by international magazines, such as GAR 100, Who´s Who Legal and Chambers & Partners in the area of arbitration and dispute resolution. |
Eduardo Zuleta is a listed arbitrator in the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, the ICDR and the Center of Arbitration of British Columbia. Chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and counsel in international commercial arbitration under ICC, ICDR and UNCITRAL Rules in arbitrations on energy, infrastructure, construction, project finance, distribution laws, international corporate matters (SHA, SPA, JV) and international contracts. Chair, co-arbitrator and counsel in investment cases under ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules.
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J.D., Universidad Del Rosario (honors) |
Construction, Corporate Commercial |
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