Lawyer Profile
Robert J. C. Deane
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Rob is a partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, based in Vancouver, Canada, and is the National Leader of the Firm's Arbitration Group. He is also an elected member of the Firm’s Partnership Board (2013-2020, and 2022-present).
Rob is recognized nationally and internationally as a leading counsel in commercial litigation, as well as a leading counsel and arbitrator in international and domestic commercial arbitration (including investor-State arbitration).
As arbitration counsel, Rob has appeared in significant arbitration proceedings in North America, Asia and Europe, under almost all major institutional sets of rules, in a wide array of industry sectors including construction and infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, distribution, pharmaceuticals, energy, and mining as well as investor-State disputes.
As arbitrator, Rob has either chaired or been sole arbitrator in international and domestic proceedings involving parties throughout the world engaged in disputes arising in, among others, the infrastructure, energy, real estate development, distribution, intellectual property licensing and natural resource sectors.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria as the Law Society of British Columbia Gold Medalist in 1998, Rob served as a Law Clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada (formerly the Rt. Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada) in 1998-1999. Rob has been appointed King’s Counsel (2025).
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2000 (BC)
Professional Details
Education
LLB, University of Victoria, 1998 (Law Society of BC Gold Medallist)
BA, Simon Fraser University, 1995