• Shareholder, joint venture, and partnership disputes
• Distribution and licensing
• Share purchase and M&A disputes
• International sale of goods

• Software design and installation
• Computer hardware, semiconductor and integrated circuit design and manufacture
• Satellite performance
• Technology licensing
• Internet sales contracts
• Technology and IP licensing

• Pipeline construction
• Power Purchase Agreements
• Royalty disputes
• Joint venture disputes
• Production and supply agreements
• Mining equipment performance
• Electrical generation equipment performance
• Pulp & paper equipment performance
• Energy pricing  
• Wind farm leasing
• Solar energy equipment

• M&A misrepresentation
• Share purchase and buy/sell partnership disputes
• Joint venture performance disputes

• BIT and ICSID breach of infrastructure contract disputes

Examples of representative arbitrations as arbitrator:

• Co-arbitrator in a joint venture contract dispute between oil companies (LCIA)
• Sole arbitrator in international license dispute regarding IP rights (ICDR)
• Chair of the tribunal in a gas pipeline dispute (ICC)
• Co-arbitrator in an investor-state dispute regarding road construction (ICSID)
• Sole arbitrator in a computer software installation and warranty dispute. (ICDR)
• Co-arbitrator in a satellite contract dispute (LCIA)
• Chair in a power purchase dispute (ad hoc)
• Chair in a web-based internet advertising dispute (ICDR)
• Chair in a semiconductor design and manufacturing dispute (ICC)
• Co-arbitrator in a right of first refusal contract case regarding merchandising rights (ICDR)
• Sole arbitrator in a law partnership dissolution dispute. (ad hoc)
• Co-arbitrator in a mining equipment dispute (ad hoc)
• Chair of the tribunal in a marine docking dispute (ICC)
• Emergency Arbitrator regarding a franchise agreement in the entertainment field (ICDR)
• Chair in a share purchase dispute involving a government-owned mining company (LCIA)
• Co-arbitrator in an investor/state construction dispute (ICC)
• Chair in a technology license dispute (LCIA)
• Chair of the tribunal in a dispute involving representations and warranties in a share purchase agreement regarding an international hotel chain. (ad hoc)
• Chair of the tribunal in a U.S. government procurement dispute (ICC)
• Chair of the tribunal in a breach of warranty claim concerning the installation of pulp and paper manufacturing equipment. (ad hoc)
• Sole arbitrator in a publishing and merchandising license dispute. (ICDR)
• Chair in an M&A price adjustment dispute regarding retail stores (LCIA)
• Co-arbitrator in a construction delay claim. (ad hoc)
• Sole arbitrator in a joint venture land development dispute. (ad hoc)
• Co-arbitrator in an energy pricing dispute (ad hoc)
• Chair in an M&A Share purchase dispute (ICDR)
• Co-arbitrator in a breach of warranty claim concerning the installation of mining equipment. (ad hoc)
• Co-arbitrator in a royalty dispute respecting oil and gas deposits (ad hoc)
• Chair in a petrochemical producer and refiner dispute (ICC)
• Co-arbitrator in a wind farm lease dispute (ad hoc)
• Chair in a foreign investment consulting agreement dispute (ICC)
• Emergency Arbitrator regarding an international licensing dispute in the publishing field (ICDR)

Academic

• Bachelor of Engineering degree, Carleton University
• Magna cum laude, LLB, University of Ottawa
• LL.M. in International Business Law, York University (focused on international commercial arbitration)
   

Professional

• Independent Arbitrator, and founder of Bay Street Chambers. 2012 – Present
• Principal and former Chair of North American Disputes Group, Baker & McKenzie
   

Bar Admissions

• Ontario, 1976

Memberships

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
• Panel Member: ICC, LCIA, ICDR

Brian has participated in seminars and presented papers at numerous conferences throughout his career, including:

• Post Covid case management techniques- ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration- Houston
• Virtual Arbitration Hearings When A Party Objects:  Are There Enforcement Risks? NY State Bar Dispute Resolution Journal
• Setting Aside: Excess of jurisdiction or Error of Law? – Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration
• Third-party funding issues in arbitration- Juris Leading Arbitrators Seminar, Vienna
• Update on Foreign Investment Disputes – University of Houston lecture
• Non-Party intervention in Arbitration – LCIA Seminar, London
• International Multi-Party Arbitrations – IBA Seminar, Melbourne
• Drafting Inter-Cultural Arbitration Agreements – The Center for American and International Law Seminar, Dallas
• Drafting International Arbitration Clauses – AAA/ICDR Seminar, Miami
• The Implication of National Laws in the Application of the New York Convention – ICC Seminar, Caracas
• Managing Cultural Differences in International Arbitration – Juris Leading Arbitrators Seminar, Vienna
• Assessment of Damages in Investor-State Arbitrations- the View from the Tribunal –Juris Damages Conference, Washington DC. 
• Recent developments in arbitrating disputes in Oil & Gas Production Sharing Contracts – ICC Conference, Houston
• Recent update of arbitration in the Americas - ICDR Seminar, Miami
• Expert evidence in Arbitrations and Court – ADR Institute of Canada, Calgary
• Arbitration Advocacy – The Advocates Society, Toronto
• Update on ICDR Canada Rules for Oil & Gas Dispute Resolution- AIPN, Calgary
• NAFTA Chapter 11: What’s the Fuss – Canadian Corporate Counsel Association article
• Strategic Considerations in Arbitrations under NAFTA and Bilateral Investment Treaties – McGill University lecture

Publications

Brian is the author of Arbitration Law of Canada: Practice and Procedure, a leading text on arbitration and frequently quoted by the courts in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

 He has been a contributor to:

• International Arbitration Checklists (Juris)
• Alternative Dispute Resolution, (Aspatore Books)
• Arbitration World 4th Ed. (Sweet & Maxwell)
• The Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide, (CCH)
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Commercial Arbitration, (Irwin)
• Jura Novit Curia in International Arbitration, (Juris)
• Canadian sections of World Arbitration Reporter and Chambers International Arbitration Guide.

• Chambers Global – Tier 1
• Who’s Who Legal – Thought Leader
• Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration