Joanne Luu has a decade of experience in commercial and corporate dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on complex and high stakes disputes, including corporate and commercial, energy and natural resources, and joint venture matters. Joanne has appeared at all levels of court, including recently, before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Joanne is a thought leader in the arbitration space, serving as both counsel and arbitrator. She is a Fellow and Director of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has published book chapters in The Leading Practitioners’ Guide to International Oil & Gas Arbitration and Arbitration World. Joanne is one of 12 Canadian lawyers named to the Arbitration Place NextGen Arbitrators Roster. She regularly speaks at conferences and symposia. Director, Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC)
Joanne has been named by Who’s Who Legal (Global Guide) as an Arbitration Future Leader: Partner (2021-2023) and named in Who’s Who Legal (Canadian Guide) as a recommended lawyer - Arbitration (2023)
Her representative work includes:
- Counsel in the recent Peace River Hydro Partners v. Petrowest Corp, 2022 SCC 41 case before the Supreme Court of Canada, which addressed the interplay between arbitration and insolvency law.
- Counsel successfully representing Inter Pipeline Ltd. (IPL) in a precedent-setting case, Re Bison Acquisition Corp., 2021 ABASC 100, before the Alberta Securities Commission. The case addressed Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.’s use of total return swaps in its takeover bid of IPL.
- Counsel to CNOOC Petroleum North America ULC and affiliates against the Ministry of Oil and Minerals of the Republic of Yemen regarding the enforcement of international commercial arbitration awards.
- Counsel to a leading global insulation manufacturer and its Canadian subsidiary relating to a distribution agreement (see 2019 ABQB 684). The team was successful in obtaining full solicitor-and-own client costs and punitive damages in the amount of $750,000.
- Counsel to a middle eastern country in an arbitration involving a tax and telecommunications dispute.
- Counsel in a multi-million dollar arbitration relating to a cross-border pipeline.
- Counsel to the Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) in a successful case before the Information and Privacy Commissioner, which found that the CEC was not a public body for the purposes of FOIP.
Updated April 2024
