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.