Lawyer Profile
Peter D. Ruby
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Peter Ruby is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. He has a national and international practice focused on the litigation and arbitration of a wide variety of business disputes, including related to technology, energy, corporate, commercial, and restructuring matters.
Peter handles disputes and regulatory matters relating to the energy industry, has acted as counsel for Electricity Canada, the Electricity Distributors Association, electricity utilities, developers and operators of renewable power projects, resource companies and provincial government bodies. He has appeared at the Ontario Energy Board with respect to generation, transmission, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development and distribution issues, and before other provincial energy regulators.
Peter also represents clients with respect to a variety of corporate, commercial and restructuring disputes, including shareholder matters, contract interpretation and application issues and acquisition-related disputes.
He has appeared at all levels of the courts of Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as at many arbitration proceedings. In honour of Peter’s advocacy and professionalism in dispute resolution, in 2021 one of his clients endowed a Dispute Resolution Award in his name at Osgoode Hall Law School.
In addition to his busy counsel practice, Peter acts as a sole and panel member arbitrator and mediator. He is a roster member arbitrator/mediator at Arbitration Place, and on the roster of the AAA’s International Center for Dispute Resolution. Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
During law school, Peter was the recipient of several awards of distinction, including the Ronald D. Manes Alumni Award for demonstrated excellence in academics and leadership and the Fraser & Beatty Award.
Peter was a law clerk to the Federal Court of Canada and for over a dozen years was a Professor of Law (adj.) at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School teaching internet law. He is a former president of the International Technology Law Association, a member of the Board of the Osgoode Hall Alumni Association, the founder of Canada’s popular Tech Law Discussion Forum, the co-lead of the North America committee of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center, and served as a co-chair of the 2017 World Technology Law Conference in Chicago.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1996 (ON)