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President
Allan J. Stitt, C.Med., C.Arb., LL.M.
Executive
Director
Radek Cecha
Registrar
Marjorie Coe
International
Arbitration
Mediation
Conciliation |
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Thomas I. A. Allen, Q.C.
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Arbitration and Mediation Experience
Counsel to parties in a number of
international arbitrations; member of a three-person arbitration panel in a
commercial arbitration in Canada involving the aviation industry; sole
arbitration in an international arbitration through the ICC involving parties
from Italy, Canada and the USA; arbitration of a dispute between two related
corporations as to ownership of disputed property; arbitration, of a panel of
three, of an international commercial dispute in the petrochemical industry;
sole arbitrator in an LCIA arbitration in London, relating to international
trade between England and North America; sole arbitrator of international
dispute involving the entertainment industry; Chairman of an ICC arbitration
panel involving an international construction contract; sole arbitrator of two
international disputes involving the gaming industry; mediator in several
professional negligence disputes; sole mediator between various shareholders of
a private company as to a distributorship agreement to be entered into with one
of them; co-mediator with a judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario (now retired)
in a highly complex commercial dispute involving allocation of responsibility
for damage due to environmentally sensitive spillage; mediator of a U.K.
dispute involving inadequate hardware and software applications; mediator of a
U.K. dispute involving inadequate design and execution of construction of a
part for use in the automobile industry; mediator of a Canadian dispute among
shareholders of a recreational enterprise.
Career
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1965 to 1989 |
- Employed by, and as of 1967 a partner in,
Davies, Ward & Beck, barristers and solicitors of Toronto, Canada
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During this period represented Canadian underwriters and issuers of securities
in public offerings and private placements |
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1982 |
- Appointed to be a Queen’s Counsel in
Ontario |
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1989-Jan. 1994 |
- A partner in Gordon Capital
Partners, which provided professional services to Gordon Capital Corporation
(“GCC”), a leading independently-owned investment dealer in Canada
With offices in Canada, New York City, Paris and London |
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September 1994 |
- Appointed to join Davies,
Ward & Beck (barristers and solicitors of Toronto) as Counsel |
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Nov. 1996 - present |
- Joined Ogilvy Renault, as a
partner, and currently as a senior partner, to represent the firm in Toronto,
and in London, England, in its corporate securities and alternative dispute
resolution practices |
Member of:
board of directors, Investment Dealers Association of Canada (and
Executive Committee, Corporate Finance Committee, Regulatory Oversight
Committee, Nominating Committee); Advisory Board of the Office of the
Superintendent of Financial Institutions of Canada; board of directors: GEAC
Computer Corporation Limited; Middlefield Bancorp Ltd.; Bema Gold Corporation;
YM Biosciences Inc.; Advisory Committee of Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute;
board of directors of Mount Sinai Hospital; board of directors of ADR Chambers
International.
Chairman
of: Audit Committee of Investment Dealers Association of Canada,
Accounting Standards Oversight Council, established by the Canadian Institute
of Chartered Accountants.
Past
Chairman: Of a committee established by The Toronto Stock Exchange
to review the adequacy of corporate disclosure in Canada and whether additional
sanctions for inadequate disclosure, including civil liability, should be
established. The Committee’s report led to legislation proposed in a
number of Canadian provinces.
PUBLICATIONS include: Rules of Arbitration and
Conciliation of the International Arbitral Centre of the Federal Economic
Chamber, Vienna, found in Carswell’s Handbook of International Dispute
Resolution Rules. Institutional Rules: Straitjacket or Scaffold?, Chapter 2, of
Part II of International Commercial Arbitration, Developing Rules for the New
Millennium, Jordans, edited by de Zylva and Harrison.
Languages: English; functional but not fluent in
French. |
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