Abbey "Junior" Sirivar
Canada Guide 2025
Band 2 : Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
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About
Provided by Abbey "Junior" Sirivar
Practice Areas
Junior is a Partner and co-chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s International Arbitration Group. Junior advises domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries, including mining, banking and telecommunications in complex commercial disputes. Junior provides strategic advice and has argued numerous cases before tribunals seated in a variety of venues. Junior has also acted as trial and appellate counsel in numerous civil matters, appearing before all levels of court in Ontario.
Career
Ontario Bar, 2003
Professional Memberships
IBA, LCIA, ICC, Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, The Advocates’ Society, The American College of Trial Lawyers.
Publications
Co-author of the Canadian Chapter in The Global Damages Review and is co-editor of McCarthy Tétrault’s International Arbitration and Mining Blogs
Personal
Junior is regularly retained as lead arbitration counsel in ad hoc and institutional international arbitrations seated in a number of jurisdictions including in Canada, South America and the European Union.
Junior is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is recognized as a leading trial and arbitration counsel in numerous directories including in Chambers Global Guide to The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Canada, The Legal 500 Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and Benchmark Canada: The Guide to Canada’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys.
Chambers Review
Canada
Junior Sirivar co-chairs the international arbitration team at McCarthy Tétrault from his base in Toronto. He handles an impressive array of international arbitral proceedings arising in the natural resources and energy sectors, as well as domestic commercial disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Junior Sirivar is a strategic and thoughtful advocate."
"Junior is terrific; he's very client-focused, results-oriented and practical."
"Junior is wonderful to work with."
"Junior Sirivar is a strategic and thoughtful advocate."
"Junior is terrific; he's very client-focused, results-oriented and practical."
"Junior is wonderful to work with."