Lawyer Profile
Iris N. N. Antonios
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Iris has a broad-based commercial litigation and arbitration practice with a focus on complex international commercial and investor-state arbitration.
Iris advises and represents clients in a variety of industries, including aviation, financial services, agri-business and resource extraction. In addition to representing clients in both international and domestic arbitrations, including under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) rules, Iris regularly writes, speaks and advises on arbitration, Canada's international investment treaties and Canada's interprovincial trade agreements.
Iris' past international experience includes a secondment at the London office of a prominent U.K. law firm, where she was part of a legal team advising a large financial institution in connection with multi-jurisdictional regulatory investigations. Prior to completing her legal studies, Iris interned at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland in what was then the Division on Investment, Technology, and Enterprise Development. While there, she worked on bilateral investment treaty issues as part of the Work Programme on International Investment Agreements.
Representing international clients in two International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) international commercial arbitrations in a dispute under a carbon credit sale and purchase contract and related agreements
Counsel to a Canadian company in an ICC arbitration against an international counterparty regarding an aircraft work contract dispute, seated in Switzerland
Represented the intervener before the Alberta Court of Appeal in a case concerning the application of the Cape Town Convention on international interests in mobile equipment, particularly security interests in aircraft, within Canada (Avmax Aircraft Leasing Inc. v. Air X Charter Limited, 2022 ABCA 252)
Counsel to a global supplier and producer of agricultural products in an international investment treaty arbitration against a state respondent in the MENA region, under the UNCITRAL rules
Counsel to a global supplier and producer of agricultural products in an international commercial ICC arbitration against a foreign counterparty in the MENA region, under the ICC rules
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2009 (ON)