Ryan PISTORIUS

Ryan Pistorius is an Associate at Weintraub Huang LLP, where he specializes in international arbitration (commercial and investor-state) and commercial litigation.

Ryan has represented businesses, foreign investors, and sovereign states across the Americas, Europe, and Africa. As a result, he has experience with most major arbitration rules (including those of the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, AAA-ICDR, ADRIC, SIAC, and UNCITRAL).

As a substantive generalist within the umbrella of international dispute resolution, Ryan has experience with foreign direct investment, cross-border business, public international law, securities and shareholder disputes, mining and energy, maritime and space law, trade law, intellectual property, technology, entertainment, transportation, agribusiness, franchising, administrative tribunals, and a wide variety of contractual claims.

Prior to joining Weintraub Huang LLP, Ryan practiced at Savoie Arbitration (an investment arbitration boutique in Paris) and then at Gowling WLG (a large multinational firm headquartered in Ottawa and London). During law school, he competed in the Vis Moot (amongst others), and he remains active in the moot community as a coach and judge.

Ryan serves as the Branch Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Canada) Inc., and is the incoming Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s International Law Section. Ryan is a full Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and is currently completing his graduate thesis at Queen Mary University of London’s School of International Arbitration.