Annie Lespérance

Annie Lespérance practices in international arbitration at Cabinet Yves Fortier in Montreal. Her practice focuses on commercial disputes, as well as treaty-based investment arbitrations in the oil and gas, aerospace, mining and information technology sectors. She has acted as Secretary to Tribunals in proceedings conducted under the arbitration rules of, inter alia, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).

Prior to joining Cabinet Yves Fortier, Annie was Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague where she provided legal and administrative support to arbitral tribunals and parties in proceedings administered by the PCA concerning State-to-State, investor-State and international commercial disputes. Previously, Annie worked as a corporate lawyer at Stikeman Elliott LLP, a leading Canadian law firm.

Annie is a graduate of University of Montreal and holds an LLM cum laude in international law from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She sits on the boards of directors of the Canadian Council of International Law and the United Nations Association Canada (Montreal Branch) and has published with the McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution and Lexis Nexis. She also regularly gives conferences on international arbitration. She is a member of the Quebec (2010) and Paris (2011) Bars and is fluent in French, English and Spanish.

Professional affiliations include membership in the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA) and Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP).