Amanda’ practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, international dispute resolution, and appellate advocacy. She takes a strategic and practical approach to high-stakes disputes, advising and representing clients across the aerospace, financial services, technology, telecommunications, and entertainment sectors. She has appeared before all levels of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada on multiple occasions, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Québec Court of Appeal. She represents clients in arbitrations under a broad range of institutional and ad hoc rules, including ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, and ADRIC rules.
Amanda has litigated complex cases in diverse areas, including contractual disputes; competition and anti-trust disputes; shareholder disputes; arbitration-related litigation; consumer class actions; environmental litigation; and regulatory and administrative law disputes. She has extensive experience in aerospace disputes, having advised aircraft manufacturers and suppliers from Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia on dozens of complex commercial disputes, and represented clients in significant arbitration and court proceedings.
Amanda has in-depth experience in international and transnational disputes, with particular knowledge in jurisdictional challenges, conflict-of-laws issues, cross-border discovery, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. She regularly acts for and against foreign states and state-owned entities, advising on matters involving state immunity and complex multi-jurisdictional enforcement strategies. Her international practice also includes matters involving investment treaty arbitration, public international law, business and human rights, and ESG. In 2025, she and her team received a Benchmark Litigation Impact Case Award for their work representing investors of Devas Multimedia Private Ltd. in recognition and enforcement proceedings relating to a US$110 million arbitral award against the Republic of India.
Amanda regularly assists clients in locating, tracing, preserving, and recovering assets across jurisdictions in complex enforcement and fraud matters. She develops and executes recovery strategies that are both legally sound and commercially effective, and regularly advises and represents clients in applications for interim and pre-judgment relief, including Mareva injunctions, seizures before judgment, and Norwich orders.
Amanda also acts in arbitration-related litigation, including challenges to the validity and jurisdiction of arbitration agreements, annulment proceedings, and motions to refer disputes to arbitration. She has been retained as an expert on Québec law before an international tribunal.
In addition, Amanda maintains a substantial public law practice, representing clients in constitutional and administrative law matters, including in judicial review proceedings, and challenges to legislation, regulations, and government action.
After earning a dual J.D./LL.B. (Civil Law) from Osgoode Hall Law School and the Université de Montréal, Amanda served as a law clerk to the Honourable Nicole Duval Hesler, then Chief Justice of Québec, and the Honourable Guy Cournoyer at the Québec Court of Appeal. She is fluent in French, English and Arabic.
Commercial Disputes
- Counsel for investors in Indian telecoms company in litigation proceedings relating to the recognition and enforcement of investment treaty awards in excess of US$110 million against the Republic of India.
- Counsel for a Chilean company in the recognition and enforcement of an arbitration award of over C$185 million against an Italian multinational construction company.
- Counsel for a major European-Canadian infrastructure consortium in a C$25 million ad hoc international arbitration involving a dispute with a public entity over the interpretation of a price escalation clause and claims for damages.
- Counsel for Amazon.com in a competition lawsuit targeting Amazon’s price-parity policies for third-party sellers.
- Counsel for Electronic Arts (EA) in multiple nationwide class actions involving allegations of unlawful gambling mechanics, privacy breaches, and video game addiction.
- Counsel for BMO in high-profile banking industry class action concerning mortgage contracts (Haroch v. Toronto Dominion Bank et al., 2026 QCCA 700).
- Retained as a Québec law expert in a multimillion-dollar LCIA arbitration concerning the interpretation of an agreement for the supply of aerospace components.
- Counsel for a major European aerospace manufacturer in a dispute involving claims and counterclaims exceeding €40 million arising from its aviation software operations.
- Counsel for a U.S. supplier of advanced aerospace technology in a US$215 million claim arising out of the termination, by a Canadian aircraft manufacturer, of a contract for an aircraft program.
- Counsel for a U.S. supplier of advanced aerospace technology in a US$100 million contractual dispute against a European aircraft manufacturer arising from schedule delays in the delivery of a system for an aircraft program.
- Counsel for a U.S. supplier of advanced aerospace technology in a US$ 10 million pricing dispute against a Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
- Counsel for Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. in proceedings arising from a pre-judgment attachment obtained by Willis Lease Finance Corporation against Afrijet Business Service.
- Counsel for Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. in a dispute with Austrian jet operator GlobeAir AG involving interim measures proceedings and the referral of a C$30 million claim to ICC arbitration (Globeair Holding GmbH c. Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., 2024 QCCS 2451 and Globeair Holding GMBH c. Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., 2024 QCCA 1329).
- Counsel for a British manufacturer of advanced aerospace systems in a multi-million-dollar pricing dispute with a Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
- Counsel for a U.S. manufacturer of motion and control technologies in a contractual dispute with a Canadian aircraft manufacturer concerning non-performance of obligations and breach of the duty to inform.
- Counsel before the Superior Court for a major institutional investor in a C$75 million shareholder and corporate governance dispute.
- Counsel for an international automobile manufacturer in an institutional arbitration and in its defence against annulment proceedings of the arbitration award.
- Counsel for WSP in proceedings opposing approval of a settlement entered into with entities under court-supervised liquidation involving the effect of releases and contribution rights among alleged solidary debtors.
- Counsel for a major U.S. bank in a cross-border fraud matter involving asset tracing, Norwich orders, pre-judgment attachments and other provisional measures.
- Counsel for HSBC in an industry-wide class action challenging the legality of non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees charged by Canadian banks.
- Counsel for the Société des alcools du Québec in an environmental class action.
- Counsel for B2B Bank in a class action alleging illegal interest rate hikes.
- Counsel for investors in Indian telecoms company in litigation proceedings relating to the recognition and enforcement of investment treaty awards in excess of US$110 million against the Republic of India.
- Counsel for a Chilean company in the recognition and enforcement of an arbitration award of over C$185 million against an Italian multinational construction company.
- Counsel for a major European-Canadian infrastructure consortium in a C$25 million ad hoc international arbitration involving a dispute with a public entity over the interpretation of a price escalation clause and claims for damages.
- Counsel for Amazon.com in a competition lawsuit targeting Amazon’s price-parity policies for third-party sellers.
- Counsel for Electronic Arts (EA) in multiple nationwide class actions involving allegations of unlawful gambling mechanics, privacy breaches, and video game addiction.
- Counsel for BMO in high-profile banking industry class action concerning mortgage contracts (Haroch v. Toronto Dominion Bank et al., 2026 QCCA 700).
- Retained as a Québec law expert in a multimillion-dollar LCIA arbitration concerning the interpretation of an agreement for the supply of aerospace components.
- Counsel for a major European aerospace manufacturer in a dispute involving claims and counterclaims exceeding €40 million arising from its aviation software operations.
- Counsel for a U.S. supplier of advanced aerospace technology in a US$215 million claim arising out of the termination, by a Canadian aircraft manufacturer, of a contract for an aircraft program.
- Counsel for a U.S. supplier of advanced aerospace technology in a US$100 million contractual dispute against a European aircraft manufacturer arising from schedule delays in the delivery of a system for an aircraft program.
- Counsel for a U.S. supplier of advanced aerospace technology in a US$ 10 million pricing dispute against a Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
- Counsel for Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. in proceedings arising from a pre-judgment attachment obtained by Willis Lease Finance Corporation against Afrijet Business Service.
- Counsel for Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. in a dispute with Austrian jet operator GlobeAir AG involving interim measures proceedings and the referral of a C$30 million claim to ICC arbitration (Globeair Holding GmbH c. Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., 2024 QCCS 2451 and Globeair Holding GMBH c. Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., 2024 QCCA 1329).
- Counsel for a British manufacturer of advanced aerospace systems in a multi-million-dollar pricing dispute with a Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
- Counsel for a U.S. manufacturer of motion and control technologies in a contractual dispute with a Canadian aircraft manufacturer concerning non-performance of obligations and breach of the duty to inform.
- Counsel before the Superior Court for a major institutional investor in a C$75 million shareholder and corporate governance dispute.
- Counsel for an international automobile manufacturer in an institutional arbitration and in its defence against annulment proceedings of the arbitration award.
- Counsel for WSP in proceedings opposing approval of a settlement entered into with entities under court-supervised liquidation involving the effect of releases and contribution rights among alleged solidary debtors.
- Counsel for a major U.S. bank in a cross-border fraud matter involving asset tracing, Norwich orders, pre-judgment attachments and other provisional measures.
- Counsel for HSBC in an industry-wide class action challenging the legality of non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees charged by Canadian banks.
- Counsel for the Société des alcools du Québec in an environmental class action.
- Counsel for B2B Bank in a class action alleging illegal interest rate hikes.
Constitutional, Administrative & Public Law
- Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada for the co-appellant in English Montreal School Board, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al.
- Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in its intervention in Bergeron v. Assemblée parlementaire des étudiants du Québec inc., et al.
- Counsel before the Superior Court for Vantage Data Centers Canada in a judicial review application seeking a declaration that Hydro‑Québec’s electricity rates, as adopted by the Régie de l’énergie, are invalid.
- Counsel for a multinational corporation in proceedings before the Court of Appeal of Québec concerning alleged offences under a by-law governing air pollutant emissions.
- Counsel before the federal courts for ADISQ (the Québec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries) in its challenge of the CRTC’s decision to renew the broadcasting licences for CBC/Radio-Canada.
- Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canad for the UNHCR Canada in its intervention in Quebec (Attorney General) v. Kanyinda, 2026 SCC 7.
- Counsel before the Court of Appeal of Québec for the Conférence des juges de la Cour du Québec in the Reference respecting the decision of the Chief justice of the Court of Québec to reduce the number of days on which the judges assigned to the criminal and penal division sit.
- Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada for the co-appellant in English Montreal School Board, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al.
- Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in its intervention in Bergeron v. Assemblée parlementaire des étudiants du Québec inc., et al.
- Counsel before the Superior Court for Vantage Data Centers Canada in a judicial review application seeking a declaration that Hydro‑Québec’s electricity rates, as adopted by the Régie de l’énergie, are invalid.
- Counsel for a multinational corporation in proceedings before the Court of Appeal of Québec concerning alleged offences under a by-law governing air pollutant emissions.
- Counsel before the federal courts for ADISQ (the Québec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries) in its challenge of the CRTC’s decision to renew the broadcasting licences for CBC/Radio-Canada.
- Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canad for the UNHCR Canada in its intervention in Quebec (Attorney General) v. Kanyinda, 2026 SCC 7.
- Counsel before the Court of Appeal of Québec for the Conférence des juges de la Cour du Québec in the Reference respecting the decision of the Chief justice of the Court of Québec to reduce the number of days on which the judges assigned to the criminal and penal division sit.
