Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP

Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, Securities Litigation, Infrastructure

Paul is a trial and appellate lawyer. His focus is commercial litigation and arbitration, judicial review and public law. He has particular expertise in complex cases with a regulatory or cross-border dimension. Over 25 years of practice, he has built experience in a broad range of industries. Paul excels at resolving difficult issues through innovative litigation strategies. Clients rely on him for insight and a creative approach to simplify and resolve their most challenging disputes.

Paul has extensive trial and appellate experience at all levels in the Ontario and Federal Courts, and has been counsel in 11 appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada. He has prosecuted cases before a wide range of administrative and arbitral tribunals. He acts as an arbitrator, as a presiding officer under the Competition Act, and a tribunal Chair, and has been an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto for two decades.

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Fellow), University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (Adjunct Professor), University of Toronto, Discipline Appeals Board, (Associate Chair), ICC Canada Arbitration Committee (Member), Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (Member)

Called to the Ontario Bar, 1997, B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1995, LL.B., University of Toronto, 1994, B.A., McGill University, 1990