David R. Haigh, Q.C.
Partner
Experience
David's practice focuses on serving on international arbitration tribunals that deal with a variety of subjects, including energy, intellectual property, telecommunications, pharmaceutical issues and coal mining. He has a broad range of investor-state investment and commercial disputes and has previously acted for and against national entities.
David acts exclusively as an arbitrator and is associated with arbitration centres in Canada and internationally. His experience includes:
- 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
- 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 and gas evaluations
- Joint venture agreements
Professional involvement
Professional associations
- Member of the Law Society of Alberta, (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.)
Arbitration designations and 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
Awards
Recent honours and recognition
Best Lawyers in Canada's Calgary Legal Malpractice Law Lawyer of the Year (2022)
Named in Chambers Canada as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators (2019-2022)
Named in Chambers Global as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators (2019-2022)
Calgary Alternative Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in Canada (2021)
Named in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, in the area of Commercial Arbitration (2020)
Recognized as a Leading Litigation Lawyer in Lexpert's Litigation Special Edition (2013-2020)
Named in Lexpert's Special Edition Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers (2020)
Honoured with the Distinguished Service in Canadian Arbitration Award, Canadian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2019)
Best Lawyers in Canada's Calgary International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year, (2019)
Charter Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America (2018)
Named in Who's Who Legal: Canada in Energy (2018), in Arbitration (2005-2013 and 2016-2018) and a Thought Leader in Arbitration (2017-2018)
News
April 23, 2021
Twenty BD&P lawyers recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2021
October 27, 2020
Lexpert ranks a record number of BD&P partners and counsel among Canada's leading energy lawyers
September 9, 2020
Sixteen BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2021 edition of Chambers Canada
August 27, 2020
Thirty-four lawyers recognized in the 2021 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada guide
April 29, 2020
Twenty-three lawyers ranked in 2020 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
February 14, 2020
Five BD&P partners recognized by Chambers Global as world leading lawyers
December 17, 2019
Six BD&P lawyers named in the 2020 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
December 17, 2019
Six BD&P lawyers named in the 2020 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
August 21, 2019
31 BD&P lawyers included in 2020 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada
May 3, 2019
Twenty-one lawyers ranked across seventeen practice areas in 2019 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
February 14, 2019
Chambers Global recognizes BD&P partners as world-leading lawyers
December 18, 2018
BD&P Lawyers named in the 2019 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
December 13, 2018
BD&P litigators included in Lexpert’s Litigation Special Edition, 2018
November 2, 2018
BD&P lawyers named in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2018
September 21, 2018
BD&P lawyers recognized as leading practitioners in 2019 edition of Chambers Canada
August 21, 2018