Robin Squires > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada

Work Department

Transportation

Position

Partner, National Leader of BLG’s Transportation Focus Group, and the Toronto Leader of BLG’s Maritime Focus Group

Career

Robin is a transportation and class actions defence lawyer in our Toronto office. He has extensive experience representing:

  • Ship owners and P&I Clubs in matters involving domestic and international shipping
  • Airlines and aviation insurers in claims related to casualties, property damage, and passenger rights
  • OEMs in the defence of class actions and product liability claims
  • Transportation companies in disputes and for loss recovery.

Robin is an advocate with experience in complex casualty matters and class actions involving multiple parties and inter-jurisdictional and cross border insurance issues.

In addition to Robin’s court experience, he advises clients on liability and risk management issues, including:

  • Service agreements
  • Contracts
  • Liability releases
  • Indemnity agreements
  • Governance issues
  • Labour and employment matters

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Board Member, Canadian Transport Lawyers Association
  • Member, Executive Committee, Transportation Lawyers Association
  • Member, Toronto Marine Club
  • Member, Canadian Maritime Law Association
  • Member, The Advocates’ Society
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, American Bar Association

Education

  • LLB, Queen’s University, 2005
  • Bachelor of Outdoor Recreation, Lakehead University, 1993 Honours

Bar Admission

  • Ontario, 2006

Personal

  • Volunteer, Pro Bono Law Ontario’s access to justice initiatives at Superior court and the Court of Appeal
  • Member, BLG’s Pro Bono team

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Transport > Shipping

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP‘s shipping law capabilities take in both advisory and contentious aspects, namely the drafting of logistics and warehousing agreements, transactions involving the sale and purchase of ships, permitting mandates, customs and cargo claims, limitation actions and litigation following collisions and spills. The group’s client roster regularly features shipowners, operators, builders, charterers and marine terminal operators. The practice is jointly directed by Montreal-based Jean-Marie Fontaine, who handles a full range of advisory, transactional and contentious shipping matters; Vancouver-based Dionysios Rossi, who routinely represents clients involved in shipping, transportation, environmental and energy-related disputes; and Toronto-based Robin Squires, who has focused his practice on aviation, maritime and land transportation-related litigation.

Canada > Transport > Other transport

The practice group at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is equipped to handle financing, regulatory matters, transactions and litigation involving road and rail transportation, for which it is frequently instructed by national and regional railway companies, urban transit authorities, contractors and operators. The department is directed by Toronto-based litigators Robin Squires and Robert Love, along with Vancouver-based Dionysios Rossi, who specializes in transportation and shipping matters, as well as environmental and energy law.