Background
Gerry Stobo is a Partner in the Ottawa Office. Gerry graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Arts. He received a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of London. Gerry completed the Program for Public Executives at Queen's University. He was called to the Bar of the Province of Alberta in 1981 and to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2004. Gerry is rated by his international trade law peers in the Lexpert Directory, The Best Lawyers in Canada 2008, Chamber's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers and The Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading International Trade Lawyers as one of Canada's leading trade lawyers. Gerry is also included in The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide of the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He is the leader of the Ottawa Commercial Litigation Group .
Areas of Practice
- Trade Law
- Government Contracting and Procurement Law
- Public and Regulatory Law
- Construction Law
Professional Experience
- General Counsel, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, 1995-2001.
- General Counsel, Immigration and Refugee Board, 1989-1994.
- Appeared before all levels of courts and tribunals, including Supreme Court of Canada and the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
- Lead counsel on a number of complex dumping, subsidy and safeguard cases for multi-national corporations and as lead counsel for the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
- Appeared before international dispute resolution panels created under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Counsel on two precedent-setting inter-provincial trade disputes involving services pursuant to Agreement on Internal Trade.
- Retained by the United States Department of State as an expert in Canadian procurement law in a recent Chapter 11 dispute under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Counsel to governments, hospitals, museums and corporations on all aspects of tendering and contracting including proposal design, creation of the solicitation documents, administration of the procurement, evaluation process and bid challenge.
- Counsel on many complex federal government bid disputes.
- "Canadian Dumping and Subsidy Legislation Redux: Changes to the Way the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Conducts Dumping and Subsidy Cases", 2000 International Trade Law and Regulation.
- "Canadian Government Procurement Law", International Trade and Investment Law in Canada, Thomson Carswell, April 2003.
- Author of numerous articles for trade and procurement journals as well as national news publications.
Professional and Community Activities
- Director, Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation.
- Founder and Chair, Public Procurement Law Practitioners Group.
- Past Co-Chair, Customs Committee, Sales and Commodity Tax Section of the Canadian Bar Association.
- Past Secretary, Committee on Public Procurement (Committee M4) of the International Bar Association.
- Past President of the Public Sector Lawyers Conference of the Canadian Bar Association.
- Founder and Past-Chairman of the Immigration Section of the Canadian Bar Association in southern Alberta.
- Past Secretary-Treasurer of the National Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association.
- Frequent speaker throughout Canada and in the United States on trade law, procurement law, ethics and tribunal governance issues.
- One of the architects for the highly acclaimed training program for federal tribunal members.
- Chaired a working group that developed Canada's first ethics training program for administrative tribunal members.
