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Robert Wisner is a partner in the litigation department and Co-chair of its International
Arbitration Group, which is ranked amongst the world's top 100 practices by Global
Arbitration Review. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration,
investment treaty arbitration and cross-border litigation. He has argued cases involving
businesses and governments from around the world before international arbitral tribu-
nals established under international commercial contracts, bilateral investment treaties
and trade agreements. ese cases have been governed by the rules of the ICC, ICSID,
UNCITRAL, AAA and CIETAC, amongst others. He has been recognized for his
work in international arbitration in a number of legal directories, including: Chambers
Global: e World's Leading Lawyers for Business; Who's Who Legal; e Best Lawyers
in Canada; Lexpert®; and Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in
Commercial Arbitration. He speaks English, French and Spanish.
Practice focuses on public, business and international trade and investment law. Has
appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario, at the Federal Court and Federal
Court of Appeal, before the Supreme Court of Canada, in commercial and investment
arbitrations and before a variety of administrative tribunals. Regularly advises corpo-
rations and federal, provincial and municipal governments on NAFTA and WTO
matters. Has acted for and advised major Canadian and multinational corporations in
respect of investor-state arbitrations under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA. Adjunct Profes-
sor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, teaching International Commercial and
Investor-State Arbitration and Public International Law, and teaches advocacy with the
Foundation for International Arbitration advocacy in Geneva. Has written numerous
articles and delivered speeches on international/constitutional law. Member of the Inter-
national Chamber of Commerce arbitration roster for Canada. LLM, 1989, Harvard
Law School; LLB, 1987, University of Toronto. Ontario Bar, 1991.
Co-chairperson of BLG and member of the firm's Commercial Litigation Group. Certi-
fied by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. Acts as general
counsel in matters involving intellectual property litigation, commercial litigation,
professional negligence, personal injury, criminal litigation and administrative law, and
presides as a commercial arbitrator. In 1988, occupied the Milvain Chair in Advocacy
at the University of Calgary Law School and in 2010 was the first Silas Hylak Chair in
Advocacy at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law. Past President, County
of Carleton Law Association. Sat as a bencher of the LSUC for eight years. Elected as
a Fellow of the ACTL and was its first Canadian President in 2003–04. Recipient of
e Advocates' Society Medal, honorary degrees from the LSUC and the University of
Ottawa, and the OBA Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation. Lifetime Achievement in
Pro Bono Award recipient at the 2010 Lexpert® Zenith Awards. Named as an Officer of
the Order of Canada in 2011. Appointed QC in 1976. Ontario Bar, 1962.
Stephen L. Drymer joined Woods as partner and Head of International Arbitration
and ADR in January 2013 aer many years as Co-chair of International Arbitration
at a major Canadian and international firm. Drymer's practice is focused on domestic
and international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. He acts as counsel, as
well as arbitrator and mediator, in domestic and international commercial and invest-
ment disputes, and advises parties on a broad range of issues associated with the design,
negotiation, draing and implementation of dispute resolution agreements and strate-
gies. Educated and trained in both common law and civil, he has acted in disputes in a
wide array of industries, involving the laws of many jurisdictions, in both institutional
and ad hoc proceedings. Drymer is as well very active as counsel and arbitrator in the
resolution of sport-related disputes in Canada and internationally. A member of various
institutional rosters of arbitrators and mediators, Drymer is recognized as one of the
world's leading international lawyers and arbitrators.
Robert
Wisner
McMillan LLP
Tel: (416) 865-7127
Fax: (416) 865-7048
Toronto
John A.
Terry
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-8245
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
David W.
Scott,
QC, OC
Borden Ladner
Gervais LLP
Tel: (613) 787-3525
Fax: (613) 230-8842
Ottawa
Stephen L.
Drymer
Woods LLP
Tel: (514) 370-8745
Fax: (514) 284-2046
Montréal
robert.wisner@mcmillan.ca
jterry@torys.com
dscott@blg.com
sdrymer@woods.qc.ca
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
