Peter Ruby

Peter’s representative work includes acting for:

Technology

• the Monitor of Nortel Networks in an unprecedented cross-border dispute over the allocation of the insolvent Nortel’s assets and advising on IT, IP, business law and valuation issues
• Oracle in several litigations involving customers, business partners and implementers
• SAP in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving customers, business partners and implementers
• the Business Development Bank of Canada in software fraud litigation concerning a failed technology acquisition
• Trader Corp. in mass on-line copyright infringement litigation and arbitration proceedings
• Bell Media in a Reference to the Supreme Court of Canada opposite Canada’s largest cable companies
• Bell Media and Rogers Media in arbitration proceedings
• Software AG in litigation and arbitration with respect to disputes with Canadian corporate and government customers
• CBS Television in internet identity theft litigation
• AXA Asia in obtaining an injunction to prevent a software provider from shutting down an insurer’s operations
• NBCUniversal in copyright litigation with respect to the film Charlie Wilson’s War, and other matters

Energy

• Electricity Canada in an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada concerning access by wireless companies to public lands
• 19 power companies in a landmark case in the Supreme Court of Canada against Canada’s cable television companies
• a renewable energy developer in an arbitration over compensation owing to it by other participants in the project
• an appeal related to the use of municipal and provincial infrastructure by wireless telecommunications companies
• the majority owner of a wind-power project in arbitration regarding a shareholder dispute
• a dispute with respect to a gas development project
• Atlantic Power in regulatory and arbitration proceedings
• Several provincial government bodies with respect to commercial and corporate issues
• Various power companies, including Hydro Quebec, B.C. Hydro, New Brunswick Power, ENMAX Corporation, Manitoba Hydro and Greater Sudbury Hydro, in connection with novel matters arising in each of their provinces

Commercial, Corporate and Restructuring

• several litigations and arbitrations for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
• litigation concerning the restructuring of Stelco
• lease and guarantee litigation concerning a contract dispute arising from the insolvency of Nortel
• the restructuring of Cirque du Soleil
• litigation concerning the insolvencies of Crystallex and LoyaltyOne
  
• litigation for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
• arbitration about the breach of representations related to a corporate acquisition
• a dispute about the ownership of music rights upon the insolvency of a publisher
• appellate litigation with respect to arbitral jurisdiction
• arbitrations concerning breaches of representations in share purchase agreements
• arbitration concerning a purchase price adjustment under an asset purchase agreement
• many litigation and arbitration proceedings turning on the interpretation of contracts