Alison G. Fitzgerald

Practice Areas

Alison FitzGerald's practice focuses on international arbitration and international trade and investment. She also regularly advises clients on regulatory matters such as economic sanctions, export controls and business ethics / anti‑corruption, and represents clients in commercial and constitutional litigation.

Ms. FitzGerald's arbitration practice includes experience as counsel and tribunal secretary in international ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations administered under the auspices of major arbitral institutions. Ms. FitzGerald has also acted as counsel in domestic commercial arbitrations under the Commercial Arbitration Code and the domestic and international commercial arbitration acts of several provinces. In the course of her arbitration work Ms. FitzGerald has gained knowledge and depth of experience in a number of industry sectors, including upstream oil and gas, construction, infrastructure, mining, natural resources, aerospace / defence procurement, software licensing, railways, and chemicals.

Ms. FitzGerald has leveraged her background in public international law and constitutional law to advise and represent clients in complex cases involving potential human rights abuses under international law in connection with foreign operations, and both prosecuting and defending claims under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Ms. FitzGerald has appeared before the Federal Courts of Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada in domestic proceedings. She has also appeared before the Canada Border Services Agency and Canadian International Trade Tribunal in trade remedy proceedings.