Practice Focus
- Arbitration
- Practice focused primarily on serving on international arbitration tribunals that deal with a variety of subjects, including energy, intellectual property, pharmaceutical issues, coal and potash mining
- A broad range of investor state investment and commercial disputes involving acting for and against national entities and sitting as an arbitrator in relation to disputes involving states
- Energy Charter Treaty claims as well as commodity disputes involving pricing, trading, producing, transmitting, refining and marketing of products
- Acts as arbitrator and counsel
- Associated with arbitration centres in Canada and internationally
- Institutional and ad hoc arbitrations
- Commercial & General Litigation
- Shareholder and director actions
- Corporate/commercial contractual disputes
- Banking disputes
- Construction Litigation
- Construction and contract disputes
- Patent, trade-mark and trade name and industrial design disputes
- Energy Litigation
- Pipeline procurement and construction disputes
- Farmout agreements
- Royalty interpretation and disputes
- Operating procedures and disputes
- Petro-chemical construction
- Lease interpretation and oil & gas evaluations
- Joint venture agreements
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Toronto, Bachelor of Laws, 1964
- University of Alberta, Bachelor of Arts (Honors, History), 1961
Bar Admission
- Queen's Counsel 1984
- Alberta 1965
- Inter-jurisdictional Calls to other Provincial Bars in Canada
Professional Associations
- Member of the Law Society of Alberta, (served as Bencher, 1980-1984)
- Member of the Canadian Bar Association
- Member of the Calgary Bar Association
- Founding Member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society
- Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, 2003
- Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Institute of Arbitration (F.C.I.Arb., C.A. C.I.Arb.)
- Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America, 2018
- Member, Diversity Law Institute
- Member, Trial Law Institute
Honours & Recognition
- Named in Chambers Canada as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators, 2019
- Named in Best Lawyers as Calgary International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year, 2019
- Named in Lexpert's Special Edition on Leading Litigation Lawyers, as one of Canada's Leading Litigation Lawyers, 2013-2018
- Named in Who's Who Legal: Canada, in the area of Energy, 2018, in Arbitration annually since 2010 and a Thought Leader in Arbitration, 2017 & 2018
- Named in Who's Who Legal, the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, in the area of Energy in 2018 and in the area of Arbitration, 2005-2013 and 2016-2018
- Named in Chambers Canada as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (Nationwide), 2016-2018
- Named in Lexpert's Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, 2013-2017
- Named in Lexpert's Special Edition of Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers, 2017
- Named in Benchmark Canada, the Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys, as a leading litigator in Arbitration and Energy & Natural Resources, 2012-2016
- Named in Best Lawyers as Calgary Alternative Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year in 2012 and 2016
- Named in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, annually since 2002
- Named in Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading lawyer in Canada in Construction, Professional Liability, Litigation-Securities and Litigation-Directors & Officers Liability, 2002-2013, in Litigation-Corporate Commercial, 2012-2017, and in International Commercial Arbitration annually since 2002
- Named by Best Lawyers in Canada as a recommended lawyer in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Construction, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration, Legal Malpractice and Product Liability Law annually since 2006
- Named in Chambers Global Client's Guide to The World's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Litigation/Dispute Resolution in 2004-2006 and in the area of Dispute Resolution: Arbitration annually since 2007
- Named in Expert Guides -The Legal Media Group Guides to the World's Leading Lawyers, in Commercial Arbitration, 2013-2017
- Named in Which Lawyer, listing worldwide leading lawyers, as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution, 2005-2013 (ceased publication in 2013)
Arbitration Designations & Activities
- Recognized as a panelist on the Energy Arbitrators List published by the ICDR
- Director of the American Arbitration Association (2000-2012)
- Co-author of the Canadian Chapter of the International Arbitration Review, James H. Carter, (London (U.K.): Law Business Research Ltd., 2010, 2011 and 2012)
- International Chamber of Commerce - Arbitration Panelist (Canada) and Chairman, 1995-2001, of the Canadian National Committee for the International Chamber of Commerce
- Panelist and shareholder in the London Court of International Arbitration, 1992
- Panelist, British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre (Domestic and International)
- Panelist, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Commercial
- Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, Commercial Panelist
- Nominated to the International Panel of the International Centre of the American Arbitration Association, New York, 1998 to present
- Member of the American Arbitration Board of Directors, 2001
- Canadian delegate on the Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes pursuant to Article 2022 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which is a tri-national committee of NAFTA participants, 1994-2007
- News Section Correspondent for the International Arbitration Law Review for Canada, published by Sweet & Maxwell, London, England
- Member of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, Richardson, Texas, 1998
