Myriam Seers

Associate


Toronto

Tel : 416.865.7817
Fax : 416.865.7048

Email : myriam.seers@mcmillan.ca
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Professional Experience Myriam is an associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group at McMillan. She has experience acting for clients in a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration matters. She is developing expertise in international and domestic commercial arbitration, international investment arbitration, applications for injunctive relief, product liability, regulatory compliance and estates disputes. She has particular experience assisting clients in the natural resources, automotive, aviation, manufacturing and financial services industries.

A native of Montreal, Myriam is fluently bilingual in English and French and has a reading knowledge of Spanish and Italian. She also has a keen interest in Chinese business and culture and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese.

Myriam volunteers at Pro Bono Law Ontario's LawHelp Ontario program, where she provides pro bono legal advice to unrepresented litigants involved in civil litigation matters before Toronto-area courts.
Representative Transactions

  • Acted as junior counsel for a major multinational mining company in a US$100 million ICC arbitration seated in Paris involving a joint venture in a West African state.
  • Acted as junior counsel in several major international commercial arbitrations involving complex contractual disputes.
  • Acted as both lead and junior counsel in several product liability actions brought against manufacturers and distributors of motor vehicles, consumer products, building materials and industrial equipment.

publications and presentations
February 2012
Forum Shopping North of the Border
Think Globally, For the Defence
April 2011
Canada's Regulatory Regime for Consumer Product Safety Gets New Teeth
What's In Store, ABA Newsletter of the Section of Antitrust law's Consumer Protection Committee, Volume 16, No. 1, Spring 2011
February 2011
Consumer Product Safety Regulation – United States and Canada
Consumer Product Safety Bulletin
October 2010
The Best Defence is... A Good Defence
National Insolvency Review, Volume 27, Number 5


  • international arbitration and litigation
  • litigation and dispute resolution
  • product liability

  • The Advocates' Society
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario (AJEFO)
  • Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society
Called to the Ontario bar - 2008

University of Ottawa, LLB (cum laude) - 2007

McGill University, 2001-2004