Hugh Meighen

Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Hugh Meighen has more than 10 years of experience in dedicated arbitration counsel work. He has represented clients in high-value and complex international and domestic arbitrations in a range of industry sectors, including telecommunications, mining, construction, insurance, logistics, IT and real property, as well as under ad hoc and institutional rules, including those of the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICDR, BCICAC, DIAC and ADRIC.

Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2021 includes Hugh on its list of Most Highly Regarded partners under 45 in the Americas.

As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Hugh has acted as a sole arbitrator in arbitrations involving procurement and real property disputes, as well as the discipline chair and appeals officer for certain sports associations.

In addition to articles and book chapters on arbitration, Hugh co-authored A Guide to the PCA Arbitration Rules, published by Oxford University Press, and is an adjunct professor of international commercial arbitration at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Prior to joining BLG, Hugh practised for five years in London and Dubai in the international arbitration group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. He was previously assistant legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, where he was the McGill Law fellow and supported arbitral tribunals presiding over inter­national investment arbitrations.