Peter Ruby

Peter’s representative work includes acting for:

Technology

• Motion Picture Association – Canada, Netflix, Paramount and Sony in appellate challenges to decisions of the CRTC concerning the Online Streaming Act
• 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, successfully, in an important statutory interpretation appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada concerning access by wireless companies to public lands and infrastructure
• 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
• For the Electricity Distributors Association in the Ontario Energy Board’s 2024 generic proceeding to set the cost of capital for Ontario’s utilities

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