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Gilbertson Davis LLP Mediation Chambers

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Toronto Mediators | Mediators in Ontario
Commercial Mediator | Business Mediator
Estates Mediator | Property Mediator | Cross Border Mediator
Condo Mediator and Condo Med-Arb
Reasonable Rates and Good Availability

Background

John obtained a B.A. (Hons.) degree from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario (1973), graduating as an Academic Medallist and as the recipient of several scholarships. John holds a J.D. degree from the University of Toronto (1976), and was called to the Bar (1978) in Ontario. He has practised law in that Province since then, both as an insurance litigator and for several years as in-house Claims Counsel and Casualty Claims Manager for a Toronto based commercial property and casualty insurer.

John has had a long and abiding interest in ADR and Arbitration in particular. He received his early education in the principles and practice of arbitration from his father, a labour arbitrator and adjudicator. John graduated from the Arbitrators’ Institute of Canada courses, Parts I and II, in1986/87. He received mediation training from United States Arbitration & Mediation Incorporated in 1988, and became a founding Director of Arbitration & Mediation Services (ADR) Canada Limited in that same year. John has received his Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators CIArb (2012) for completion of the Award Writing Examination in International Arbitration. He is a founding member of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society.

John has acted as counsel in numerous mediations for over 25 years, and has a particular interest in serving as Arbitrator in insurance, reinsurance and commercial arbitrations. He has litigated many reinsurance cases during his career. John has also acted as counsel in an arbitration under the Disputed Losses between Property Insurance and Boiler and Machinery Insurance Policies. He has prepared briefing materials for an arbitration at a panel of the Insurance Bureau of Canada. He has acted as a Mediator in a commercial property dispute. John maintains a busy litigation practice at Gilbertson Davis and is its Managing Partner. Long persuaded of the benefits of ADR, John is prepared to consider appointments as Arbitrator or Arbitration counsel in select cases.

Hourly Rates: From $450 an hour, plus facilities and applicable taxes.
Languages: English

David Alderson, LL.B, LL.M, Q.Arb
Business Mediator
Commercial Mediator
Estate Mediator
Real Estate Mediator
TheResolver.ca
Phone: (416) 979 2020 ext 230
dalderson@gilbertsondavis.com
Bio | Contact

David Alderson, LL.B, LL.M, Q.Arb
Commercial Mediator

$565.00 per hour, plus facilities and taxes
Lower Rate if Disputes About $1 Million or Less

David Alderson seeks to be a resolver, an effective mediator, by being an interactive listener, a facilitator of communications and negotiation, and when the parties to a dispute require it, a neutral evaluator.

With over 40 years of practice as a lawyer in a very wide variety of civil litigation matters, including business, commercial, trade, property, distribution and franchise, technology, employment, reinsurance, trusts and estates, and marine disputes, both in local and international practices, David brings to the mediation a broad competence in facilitating the process, assisting parties to articulate their interests and to define the issues, and in subject matter neutral evaluation. He is equally at home in the context of complex, multi-party, and two-party single-issue disputes.

He is confident about the mediation process and considers that it provides the best prospect of resolving a dispute without resort to the expensive, time-consuming and disruptive process involved in traditional court-based litigation. David promotes principled negotiations so that the parties can assert and negotiate their interests, by an agreed process, on the path to a resolution acceptable to all parties. He can assist the parties to find viable options in their principled negotiations of the issues.

David will actively help parties get to the facts, and identify their respective interests, whether in a joint session or in caucus, and to overcome obstacles to a principled negotiation.

Mediator – Background

David has ADR experience, both here and abroad, and is aware of the variety of litigation styles, of recognizing and discerning cultural interests in dispute resolution, and of the need to evoke the articulation of the interests by the parties, so that that they may find a resolution of their disputes. David has considerable, and long-standing practice experience in complex arbitration, and more recently, as an arbitrator. He has been appointed as an arbitrator by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to adjudicate commercial matters.

He holds a LL.B (Osgoode) 1980 and a LL.M – Commercial and Corporate (Lond.) 1988. David has practiced litigation and arbitration in Ontario, London England, Bermuda and Dubai. He is also admitted in New York state, but currently practices only the laws of Ontario and Canada, though brings his global experience of dispute resolution to each mediation. He is a Qualified Arbitrator (Q.Arb).

David has taught both contemporary business ethics and communications at university level.

Commercial Mediator | Business Mediator | Estate Mediator | Real Estate Mediator

David can be engaged to mediate any dispute other than family law or criminal law matters. He is equally qualified in disputes that have, or may result in commercial litigation or civil litigation, and whether complex or seemingly simple.

His preferred appointment is for commercial and business estate in most industries, including a wide variety of disputes, and estates and real estate mediation, including those set out below:

• • Agency Disputes
  • Brokerage Disputes
  • Building Disputes
  • Business Disputes
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Commercial Leasing Disputes
    • Renewal & Termination
    • Rent Deferral for COVID-19
    • Maintenance & Repair
    • Rent Arbitration
    • Lease Defaults
    • Clause Interpretation
    • Breach of Lease
    • Abatement
    • Use and Alterations
    • Damage and Destruction
    • Assignment
    • Environmental Issues
    • Commercial and Industrial
  • Clean Tech Disputes
  • Condominium Disputes
  • Construction & Renovation Disputes
  • Contract Disputes
  • Disputes between Professionals in Business
    • Architectural
    • Dental
    • Legal
  • Estate Disputes
  • Energy Project Disputes
  • Marine-Industry
  • Distribution Agreement Disputes
  • Finance Disputes
  • Employment Disputes
  • Franchise Disputes
  • Infrastructure Disputes

• • International Sale of Goods Disputes
  • Investment Disputes
  • IT, IP, Internet and Technology Disputes
  • Joint Venture Disputes
  • Labour Disputes
  • Licensing Disputes
  • Management Disputes
  • Marine and Maritime Disputes
    • Cargo Claims
    • Charterparty Disputes
    • Freight Forwarding Disputes
    • Sale of Ship Disputes
    • Shipbuilding Disputes
    • Large Yacht Disputes
  • Partnership Disputes
  • Property Disputes
  • Project Finance Disputes
  • Real Estate Disputes
    • Agreement of Purchase and Sale
    • Agreement of Purchase and Sale of Pre-Construction Homes
    • Cancellation & Termination
    • New Home Purchase Contracts
    • Real Estate Transaction
    • Rescission (Declared Void)
    • Specific Performance (Forced Sale)
  • Reinsurance Disputes
  • Sale of Goods Disputes
  • Shareholder Disputes
  • Software Licensing Disputes
  • Trademark Disputes
  • Transportation Disputes
  • Technology Disputes
  • Trusts Disputes
  • Wills and Estates Disputes

Mediator – Appointment

A draft Mediation Agreement, including Terms of Appointment, is available on request from the Intake Coordinator

A sample Mediation Agreement, including Terms of Appointment can be downloaded here. The Password is available from the Intake Coordinator

Contact the Intake Coordinator at (416) 979 2020, ext. 223 or by email at info@gilbertsondavis.com for David’s availability as mediator and the fee rate for your intended mediation.

Hourly Fee Rate: $565 per hour, plus facilities and taxes. Daily and Half Day Rates available. Lower Rate if Disputes About $1 Million or Less
Languages: English