Peter D. Banks is a litigation partner in BLG’s Calgary office, practicing complex commercial and construction litigation and arbitration. With over 20 years of experience, Peter has acted on many significant matters in litigation and in domestic and international arbitration, particularly large industrial and infrastructure projects.
Peter has experience in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, and in arbitration matters under ICC, UNCITRAL, ADRIC rules, as well as ad hoc arbitrations. He also has experience in large cases involving contract disputes, constitutional issues, tax issues, shareholder disputes, and injunctions. He has acted in significant cases involving claims of breach of contract, engineering issues, deficiencies, change orders, delay, liquidated damages, warranty, indemnity, and tendering issues on large projects. These matters include a wide variety of infrastructure and industrial projects such as airports, highways, bridges, LRTs, tunnels, pipelines, municipal buildings, concert halls, potash plants, carbon capture plants, sour gas processing facilities, and other industrial plants.
Peter is a former chair of The Advocates’ Society’s Construction Law Practice Group and the CBA’s Civil Litigation South Section. He is currently the co-lead of BLG’s Calgary regional appellate group. He is also a contributor to Arbitration Matters.
Peter has a BCL (with distinction) from the University of Oxford, and an LLB (with distinction and gold medallist) and BEd (with distinction) from the University of Alberta. He clerked for the Hon. Justice Major at the Supreme Court of Canada and has since appeared at the Supreme Court as counsel on four cases.
Peter fournit des services juridiques par l’intermédiaire d’une société professionnelle.