Igor Ellyn

Igor Ellyn offers the skills and qualities that parties and counsel seek in a good arbitrator.

Igor Ellyn has been a Chartered Arbitrator and mediator since 2002. For over 40 years, he devoted his professional career to commercial litigation and arbitration in Toronto. He is knowledgeable and Insightful. He is at ease with technology, paperless proceedings and online hearings and mediations. During the pandemic, Igor has adapted his arbitration and mediation practice to new realities. He conducted arbitrations and mediations online.

A Toronto civil litigation lawyer since 1973, Queen’s Counsel since 1985 and Certified Specialist in Civil litigation since 1989, Igor Ellyn was counsel, mediator or arbitrator on more than 250 complex trials and legal proceedings in the Superior Court of Justice, in the Court of Appeal, in the Federal Court of Canada and in the Supreme Court of Canada. He dealt with case involving complex disputes in the following areas and industries:

Igor Ellyn has arbitrated many commercial matters, including shareholder disputes, contract interpretation, commercial leasing, construction, manufacturing, retail sales and trucking. He has served as Sole Arbitrator and as a member of a three-arbitrator panel. He has been appointed as arbitrator by the ICC International Court of Arbitration and by the ICDR division of the American Bar Association. In the early days of his arbitration career, Igor arbitrated consumer, construction and other contract disputes for the Better Business Bureau of Central and Mid-Western Ontario.

Igor also arbitrated ad hoc as Sole Arbitrator involving shareholder disputes, commercial business transactions, lease disputes, construction disputes and commercial agency contracts.

From 2008 to 2010, he was counsel on a long-running arbitration before a three-arbitrator panel under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and the International Commercial Arbitration Act, involving an agency agreement. The case involved detailed aspects of European Union and English law relating to commercial agents. Following the Canadian arbitration, court proceedings ensued in the English High Court. Igor received a temporary call to Lincoln’s Inn and appeared twice as counsel in the English Court.