Paul Michell

Paul Michell

T416 644 5359

pmichell@lolg.ca

  • “My experience with Paul was excellent. His approaches were professional, innovative and thorough and were a significant contributor to the successful outcome.”

    (Chambers Canada)

Bio

Commended by a client as an ‘excellent lawyer’, Paul is a trial and appellate lawyer who excels at resolving complex issues across multiple practice areas. His practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, judicial review, and appellate litigation, often with a regulatory or cross-border dimension. He has litigated cases involving failed hedge funds, derivatives, fraud and Ponzi schemes, arbitration-related court proceedings, conflicts of interest, shareholder disputes, construction and infrastructure, defamation, and employment law.

Paul has extensive experience at all levels in the Ontario and Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of Canada, and before administrative and arbitral tribunals. He has acts as an arbitrator, has been a presiding officer under the Competition Act, and has acted for corporations, public entities, regulators, individuals, investment funds and receivers.

A thought leader on prominent legal issues, Paul’s articles have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, the High Court of Australia, courts in Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law since 2021.

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Credentials

  • Credentials
  • Memberships
  • Called to the Ontario Bar, 1997
  • Clerkship: Justice Charles Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1995
  • LL.B., University of Toronto, 1994
  • B.A., McGill University, 1990
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow
  • University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Adjunct Professor
  • University of Toronto, Discipline Appeals Board, Associate Chair
  • ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, Member
  • Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, Member