Barry Leon

Civil, Arbitration

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Arbitration Banking & Finance Civil Commercial Commercial Chancery Commercial Landlord and Tenant Company & Partnership Contract Corporate Financial Crime & Fraud Insurance Intellectual Property Mediation Taxation

ARBITRATOR AND MEDIATOR

Barry was the Presiding Judge (Commercial Division), Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, in the Territory of the Virgin Islands, known as the BVI Commercial Court, from 2015 to 2018. In that capacity he presided over a range of international commercial disputes involving parties from around the world, including shareholder and corporate disputes, insolvency matters, contractual disputes, fraud and asset recovery proceedings, judgment enforcement and arbitration assistance and arbitral award enforcement.Until 2009 he was a Partner with Torys LLP in its Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice in Toronto, Canada, and for many years served as Coordinator of the Practice. He has more than 35 years of experience as counsel in litigation, arbitration and mediation, acting on many complex and significant cases for a wide variety of clients and involving many different industries including financial services, natural resources, energy, technology, intellectual property, manufacturing and construction. Barry also served as an arbitrator and mediator for several years prior to his appointment to the BVI Commercial Court. He continued to do so occasionally while serving on the Court.