Craig R Chiasson
Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
[email protected]Craig R Chiasson is a partner in BLG’s international arbitration group in its Vancouver office. He has extensive experience in investment treaty and international commercial arbitration matters. He has been involved in investment treaty arbitrations as counsel for both investors and states and as tribunal secretary, and he has acted as counsel in international commercial arbitrations seated in Europe, North America and Asia and governed by numerous substantive laws. Mr Chiasson practised in the international arbitration group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris for almost six years before returning to BLG where he began his career in 2001. He is a member of the executive of the Canadian Committee of the ICC. He is also a member of ICCA, the IBA Arbitration Committee, the ITA and the LCIA, and is active in numerous other arbitration organisations. Mr Chiasson has also acted as sole arbitrator in international and domestic commercial arbitration matters. Mr Chiasson is qualified in British Columbia (practising member) and England and Wales (non-practising member).
Mr Chiasson has been ranked in both the Chambers Canada and Global guide for the past six years. He has also been recognised by: Global Arbitration Review in Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2016–2018 and Canada 2016–2018; Benchmark Canada as a “Litigation Star: Arbitration” 2016–2018 and as a “Future Star in British Columbia” in Arbitration in the 2014 and 2015 editions of Benchmark Canada; Expert Guides in the 2013–2016 editions as a “Rising Star in Commercial Arbitration” and as an expert in Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide 2017 and 2018; Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for international commercial arbitration 2015–2018; Lexpert Special Edition on Litigation Lawyers as a leading Canadian Lawyer 2014–2017; Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigators as a leading Canadian cross-border litigation lawyer for International Commercial Arbitration 2014–2017; by peers in The Best Lawyers in Canada® (International Arbitration) 2018 and by Martindale-Hubbell as AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated.