Overview
Myriam Seers practices litigation and dispute resolution, with a particular focus on investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation involving clients in the mining, electricity, oil & gas and transportation sectors. She also has experience with regulatory proceedings, and related litigation, involving natural gas and electricity transmission and distribution. She has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, in international arbitrations under the ICSID, UNCITRAL and ICC Rules, in all levels of Ontario and Canadian federal courts, before Ontario administrative tribunals including the Ontario Energy Board and the Environmental Review Tribunal, and in domestic arbitrations.
Myriam has substantial experience with litigation funding agreements, including in acting for claimants whose claims are funded by a litigation funder and in advising litigation funders regarding the risk profile associated with prospective funded claims. She also regularly advises clients on matters involving compliance with Canadian economic sanctions.
Myriam is active in teaching advocacy skills to junior lawyers. She recently participated as a faculty member for the Foundation for International Advocacy (FIAA)'s Workshop on Questioning Fact Witnesses in International Arbitration delivered as part of the Master in International Dispute Settlement Program at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law / Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has also participated as an advocacy skills adviser for the Law Practice Program at Ryerson University, and co-leads Torys' internal advocacy training programs. Myriam has completed several advanced advocacy courses, including FIAA's Workshop on Questioning Expert Witnesses in International Arbitration held at the Geneva Graduate Institute, as well as the Osgoode Hall Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop.
Myriam is a native speaker of both English and French, is proficient in Spanish, has a reading knowledge of Italian, and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese.