Practice Focus
- Arbitration
- Practice focused on serving on international arbitration tribunals that deal with a variety of subjects, including energy, intellectual property, telecommunications, pharmaceutical issues and coal mining
- A broad range of investor state investment and commercial disputes and has previously acted for and against national entities
- Sits as an arbitrator in relation to disputes involving states, including Energy Charter Treaty claims as well as commodity disputes involving pricing, trading, producing, transmitting, refining and marketing of products
- Now acts exclusively as an arbitrator
- Associated with arbitration centres in Canada and internationally
- Institutional and ad hoc arbitrations
- Construction and contract disputes
- Pipeline procurement and construction disputes
- Farmout agreements
- Royalty interpretation and disputes
- Operating procedures and disputes
- Petro-chemical and other forms of energy-related 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 (WCCAS)
- Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, 2001
- 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
Honours & Recognition
- Honoured with the Distinguished Service in Canadian Arbitration Award, Canadian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2019
- Named in Chambers Canada as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators, 2019 & 2020
- 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, 2013-2019
- 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
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
- 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
- Member of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, Richardson, Texas, 1998 to present
