Stephen Drymer

Practice Areas

Stephen L Drymer heads Woods LLP’s International Arbitration practice. A litigator and advocate by background and experience, he now works almost exclusively in domestic and international arbitration and dispute resolution. He acts as counsel, and serves as arbitrator and mediator, in commercial, investment treaty and sports cases.

Career

Educated and trained in both the civil law and the common law, fluent in French and English (and with an excellent working knowledge of Spanish), Stephen has pleaded cases and served as party-appointed arbitrator and tribunal president in matters involving the laws of many jurisdictions, both in ad hoc proceedings and under the rules of international arbitral institutions.

Stephen is as well very active in the resolution of sport-related disputes, in cases before the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne and the World Rugby Anti-Doping Judicial Panel.

Professional Memberships

CBA, ABA, ILA, LCIA, CIArb, ICCA, ICC Canada. Member of various institutional rosters of arbitrators and mediators, Stephen is recognised as one of the world’s leading international lawyers and arbitrators.