Mr Craig R Chiasson Counsel Borden Ladner Gervais LLP - Lawyer Biography - International Law Office
Lawyer Biography
- Mr Craig R Chiasson, Counsel
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP - Vancouver BC, Canada
- cchiasson@blg.com
Background
Craig Chiasson is Counsel in the International Trade and Arbitration Group, based in our Vancouver office.
Craig was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2002 and is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta in 2001. Prior to that, he received a Bachelor of Education from the University of British Columbia in 1995. Craig practiced at the firm’s Vancouver office from his call in May 2002 until December 2005. He returned to BLG in November 2011 after having worked in the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris from January 2006 to October 2011.
Areas of Practice
Craig has extensive experience in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. He also has considerable experience in complex commercial disputes, including contract, securities and shareholder disputes, Canadian competition law, and class actions.
Professional Experience
Craig has acted as counsel in international commercial arbitrations and in investor-state arbitrations under bilateral investment treaties and other multilateral investment treaties, for both respondent States and claimant investors.
- His international commercial arbitration experience includes, representing:
- a Canadian mining company in an UNCITRAL arbitration
- a Portuguese cement company in an ICC arbitration
- a US satellite manufacturer in an ICC arbitration and ad hoc proceedings
- a Korean shipbuilding company in an ICC arbitration
- a French nuclear power plant contractor
- a major international financial institution in an ICC arbitration
- an Albanian mobile telephone company in its dispute with the national incumbent fixed-line operator
- a Russian energy company in an ICC arbitration
- a Canadian software company in two international arbitrations under the BCICAC rules
- a Greek financial institution in a dispute relating to the purchase of a foreign financial institution
His investment treaty experience includes advising:
- an European State on issues arising out of an investor’s claims for breach of the Energy Charter Treaty relating to the revocation of power-generation concessions
- an African State on issues arising out of an investor’s claims for breach of a bilateral investment treaty relating mining rights an international energy company on issues arising out of its claims for breach of relevant bilateral investment treaties in relation to its assets in a South AmericanState
- an international energy company on issues arising out of its claims for breach of relevant bilateral investment treaties in relation to its assets in a CIS State
Craig has also acted as tribunal secretary to Jan Paulsson in Pantechniki S.A. Contractors & Engineers v. Republic of Albania (ICSID Case No ARB/07/21) and in an ICC case to Noah Rubins relating to the dismantling, transportation and reconstruction of a steel plant.
He has appeared as counsel in ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, SCC and ad hoc arbitration proceedings and in the Appeal, Supreme, and Provincial Courts of British Columbia.
Professional and Community Activities
- Member of the Roster of Arbitrators and Arbitration Committee of the Canadian Committee of the ICC Court of International Arbitration.
- Member of the International, Canadian and Vancouver Bar Associations.
- Contributor to International Law Office on issues of international arbitration.
