Arbitration
As Canada’s premier disputes practice, we provide robust domestic and international experience, creative legal acumen, and extensive hearing experience to our clients’ commercial and treaty arbitrations.
Overview
We bring decades of experience handling our clients’ most sophisticated disputes, including investment treaty arbitrations under bilateral investment treaties and CUSMA, international commercial arbitrations, and the setting-aside and enforcement of arbitral awards emanating from jurisdictions around the world. We are well versed in the leading sets of arbitral rules and regularly appear before domestic and international tribunals constituted pursuant to CUSMA and other investment treaties.
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Areas of Service
- Domestic commercial arbitrationWe routinely represent clients in arbitrations across a wide variety of industries, including banking and financial services, technology and telecommunications, energy, construction, life sciences, mining, insurance and reinsurance, and real estate. We handle some of Canada’s most high-profile commercial disputes, drawing on the experience of diverse practice groups to offer an integrated approach to dispute resolution.
- International commercial arbitrationInternationally, our practice is distinguished by its ability to manage the complexities of cross-border disputes. We coordinate multi-jurisdictional legal issues, linguistic and cultural considerations, and enforcement risks to protect our clients’ interests at every stage—from drafting arbitration clauses to post-award enforcement. Our lawyers are adept at working with foreign counsel, experts, and tribunals, ensuring a seamless and cohesive case strategy across borders.
- Investor-state arbitrationWhen pursuing business opportunities abroad, investors often face unique challenges arising from local politics, governance, resource nationalism, and discrimination. We regularly assist clients at all stages of investment disputes, from pre-investment strategic planning to contested hearings before arbitral tribunals to enforcing awards. We also have considerable experience negotiating settlements between investors and host governments.
- Arbitration-adjacent court proceedingsFrom set-aside applications to seizures of property, we routinely appear before courts across Canada in set-aside, recognition and enforcement proceedings, including under the ICSID and New York Conventions and domestic legislation. We represent our clients through the enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, navigating procedural and multijurisdictional obligations to deliver tangible results.
The team at Torys is extremely detail-oriented and focused on producing a superior work product. They have a very good technical understanding of the important issues.
— Chambers Canada, 2026
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Representative Work
Recent Recognition
- Recognized as a leading arbitration firm (GAR 100)
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