Our practice includes advice and representation in insurance and commercial disputes and business transactions involving diverse businesses and industries, often having an international dimension or requiring urgent relief from the courts.

David Alderson, LL.B, LL.M, Q.Arb, Commercial and Marine Arbitrator has been accredited by the ADR Institute of Canada as a Qualified Arbitrator (Q.Arb). David accepts appointments to arbitrate commercial, business, shareholder, partnership, joint venture, franchise, leasing, condo, IT and tech, sale of goods, employment reinsurance and joint venture disputes. He has been appointed by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to adjudicate commercial arbitration matters, and is on the TCAS Arbitrator Member Roster

On September 20, 2019, Lee Akazaki will be a guest speaker at the Canadian Institute of Actuaries’ Annual Actuarial Evidence Seminar in Montréal, PQ.  He will be delivering a presentation on the challenges of cyberspace to tort law, regarding the causation of intangible loss. This session will return to the origins of “but for” causation, to propose a framework capable of keeping tort law relevant in allocating adverse consequences in cyberspace.

David is the author of the chapter entitled Sentinels of the Hryniak Culture Shift: Four Years On, included in the Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2018, (Ed. by the Honourable Justice Todd L. Archibald, published by Thomson Reuters Canada Limited), a copy of which can be accessed here.

Founded in 1982, our Firm maintains a client-centered practice providing representation in the resolution of commercial and insurance disputes by a litigation, arbitration, mediation or other ADR, and business advice and transactional assistance in complex commercial contracts, corporate finance, business law and real estate, and in wills, estates and trusts.

OUR MISSION

To provide the greatest value, most astute counsel and trusted advice and transactional assistance to our clients. Everything we do is dedicated to that end.