Myriam Seers
Myriam is one of the firm's founding partners. Before that, she spent most of her career in major Canadian business law firms McMillan and Torys.
The pillars of her practice are:
🔹Acting in international commercial arbitrations and investment treaty arbitrations, with a particular focus on representing SMEs with operations in Latin America
🔹Acting in proceedings before Canadian courts to enforce or set aside international arbitral awards, or to enforce foreign judgments
🔹Acting in commercial litigation matters before Canadian courts, especially those with a cross-border component
🔹 Sitting as an independent arbitrator in a wide range of disputes, both international and domestic Canadian, leveraging tech solutions as appropriate to manage the process in an efficient and cost-effective manner tailored to the parties’ needs and the nature of the dispute
Myriam is particularly passionate about working with clients who are working to develop renewable energy and critical minerals projects. She has substantial experience with disputes involving renewable energy projects, including offshore wind, onshore wind, hydroelectric and solar projects.
Throughout her career, she has worked on cases involving mining projects at all phases of their life cycle, from early-stage exploration to development-stage projects to operating mines, in jurisdictions as varied as Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar and the Kyrgyz Republic. She has extensive experience helping clients navigate the wide variety of roadblocks that can stall or stop a mining project over the course of its life, and in fearlessly advocating on clients’ behalf in arbitration or other dispute resolution forums when those roadblocks cannot be overcome.
Myriam is recognized as a Band 2 in Dispute Resolution: Arbitration - Nationwide - Canada by Chambers and Partners and in Band 3 of Chambers' Global Guide. Clients surveyed by Chambers remarked about Myriam:
🔹"She is incredibly bright and has an amazing faculty in various languages. Her ability to absorb, digest and communicate complicated materials in a short time and concisely is extraordinary."
🔹"Myriam possesses a deep understanding of the Canadian arbitration landscape."
She is also ranked by the global publication “Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration” (which states that she is “truly excellent” and has “a remarkable reputation for her work on large, complex international arbitration proceedings”).
Myriam is a past Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee.
Bar Admission
Ontario (Canada), 2008
Education
LLB, University of Ottawa
Hons. BA program, McGill University
Usually works from
Toronto, and sometimes Vancouver
Languages
English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, some German