Robert R. Amsterdam
LL.B. (OF COUNSEL)
Phone: +49-40-37 09 05-0
Email: Amster@amperlaw.com
Education:
Queen’s University, Kingston, LL.B., 1978, Carleton University, B.A. 1975
Experience:
In his 25 years of practice, Robert R. Amsterdam has handled numerous international business disputes and in a variety of emerging markets. With an active trade and subsidy practice, Amsterdam has both defended and prosecuted cases for and against governments and corporations.
Amsterdam has worked in countries as diverse as Hungary, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Guatemala and is deeply experienced with politically sensitive cases.
He co-founded the Toronto-based law firm Amsterdam & Peroff with Dean A. Peroff in 1980 and has represented well-known global corporations including PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Four Seasons Hotel Group. Amsterdam has delivered speeches at organisations such as the Carnegie Endowment, the Fraser Institute and the International Commission of Jurists and has debriefed parliamentarians and NGO leaders on a variety of political, legal, and business issues. His expert legal commentary is frequently featured in the media, and he has appeared in the American press Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the UK press the Financial Times, Guardian, German press Tagesspiegel, the French press Le Monde amongst others, and was prominently featured in a BBC documentary.
Member:
Canadian, New York and International Bar Association, United Kingdom Solicitor
Languages:
English
Practicing: Arbitration
