Paul Michell

Commended by a client as an ‘excellent lawyer’, Paul is a trial and appellate lawyer who excels at resolving complex issues across multiple practice areas. His practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, judicial review, and appellate litigation, often with a regulatory or cross-border dimension. He has litigated cases involving failed hedge funds, derivatives, fraud and Ponzi schemes, arbitration-related court proceedings, conflicts of interest, shareholder disputes, construction and infrastructure, defamation, and employment law.

Paul has extensive experience at all levels in the Ontario and Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of Canada, and before administrative and arbitral tribunals. He has acts as an arbitrator, has been a presiding officer under the Competition Act, and has acted for corporations, public entities, regulators, individuals, investment funds and receivers.

A thought leader on prominent legal issues, Paul’s articles have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, the High Court of Australia, courts in Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law since 2021.

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Called to the Ontario Bar, 1997
Clerkship: Justice Charles Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada
B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1995
LL.B., University of Toronto, 1994
B.A., McGill University, 1990

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

Paul Michell

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