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Antonin I. Pribetic: Lawyer with Steinberg Morton Hope & Israel LLP

Antonin I. Pribetic

Litigation Counsel
Antonin I. Pribetic is Litigation Counsel at Steinberg Morton Hope & Israel LLP. A member of the Litigation Group, his advocacy practice consists of acting for a broad range of Canadian and international clients in the areas of international commercial litigation and/or arbitration, civil litigation, business torts, corporate litigation, class actions and administrative law. He also provides litigation management advice to foreign counsel with respect to the prosecution or defence of actions in Ontario, including coordination of international debt recovery efforts.
 
Steinberg Morton Hope & Israel LLP
Yonge Norton Centre, 5255 Yonge Street, Suite 1100
Toronto, Ontario  M2N 6P4
(City of Toronto)

Telephone: 416-225-2777
Fax: 416-225-7112
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Practice AreasCommercial Litigation(25%); Trial Practice(25%); Appellate Practice(10%); Transnational Litigation(20%); Business Torts(10%); Civil Litigation(10%)
 
UniversityYork University, B.A., Political Science, with honors, 1987
 
Law SchoolOsgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., 1991; LL.M., Civil Litigation/Dispute Resolution, 2008)
 
Admitted1993, Ontario
 
MembershipsLaw Society of Upper Canada (Member), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Certified Member), Canadian Bar Association/ Ontario Bar Association (CBA International Dispute Resolution Committee (National Section), OBA International Law Section (Vice-Co-Chair),OBA Civil Litigation Section (Member)),Canadian Council of International Law (Member), American Bar Association (Associate Member: Sections of Litigation, International Law and Business Law), American Society of International Law (Member), International Law Association (Member: Canadian Branch), International Bar Association (Member-Public and Professional Interest Division, Legal Practice Division, Corporate Law Section, Dispute Resolution Section, Regional Fora North American Regional Forum.
 
LanguagesEnglish and Croatian
 
BornRijeka, Istra, Republic of Croatia
 
BiographyCertified Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Author and Co-Author: "An 'Unconventional Truth': Conflict of Law Issues Arising under the CISG," NORDIC JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL LAW, Issue 1, April 2009 (forthcoming); "Staking Claims Against Foreign Defendants in Canada: Choice of Law and Jurisdiction Issues Arising from the in personam Exception to the Mocambique Rule for Foreign Immovables" (2009) 35 Adv. Q. 230; "'Winning is Only Half the Battle': Procedural Issues Relating to the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards," in V.V.L. Gayathri (Ed.) INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION- CLAIMS AND COUNTERCLAIMS, (Hyderabad, India: Amicus Books-ICFAI University Press, 2009); "CASE NOTE: Opinion of Advocate General Kokott in Allianz SpA (formerly Riunione Adriatica Di Sicurta SpA) and Others v. West Tankers Inc. (Case C-185/07 delivered on 4 September 2008)," TDM Volume 6, issue #01 - March 2009; "Choice of Law in International Agreements: What Should Parties Watch For? (Canada)," The International Commercial Practitioner, American Bar Association (ABA) 5-6; "All Quiet on the CISG Front: Guiliani v. Invar Manufacturing, the Battle of the Forms, and the Elusive Concept of Terminus Fixus" (2008), 46 C.B.L.J. 430 (Co-Authored with James M. Klotz and Peter Mazzacano); "A Strategic Functionalist Approach to International Commercial Mediation," TDM Volume 5, issue #04 - July 2008; "The Trial Warrior: Applying Sun Tzu's The Art of War to Trial Advocacy" Alberta Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1017-1035, 2008; "Trial and Error—Balancing the Scales of Justice through the Doctrines of Stare Decisis and Ex Proprio Motu," OBA Civil Litigation Section Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 8—11, March 2007; "Cross-border High Anxiety? Offensive and Defensive Strategies in Transnational Litigation: Offensive Strategies," The Globetrotter, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 6—11, March 2007 (paper presented at the 2007 OBA Annual Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 5 February 2007); "The (CISG) Road Less Traveled": GreCon Dimter Inc. v. J.R. Normand Inc., (2006) 44 Can. Bus. L. J. 92-114; "Bringing Locus into Focus: A Choice-of-Law Methodology for CISG-based Concurrent Contract and Product Liability Claims," in REVIEW OF THE CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS (CISG) 2004-2005, Pace International Law Review (ed.) (München: Sellier European Law Publishers, 2006), pp. 179-223; "The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements," The Globetrotter, OBA International Law Section Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 2-5, September 2005; "Strangers in a Strange Land": Transnational Litigation, Foreign Judgment Recognition, and Enforcement in Ontario, (2004) 13 J. Transnat'l L. & Pol'y 347-391. Recent Speaking Engagements: Speaker: "Application of the CISG by Default," Presentation at the Third Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Private International Law, Institute For Private International Law In Africa-University Of Johannesburg, September 9-11, 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa; Speaker: "Application of the CISG by Default," CISG Hot Spots for Commercial Lawyers and Litigators, CLE Program co-sponsored by the CBA Section on International Law and the OBA International Law Section, March 10, 2009, Toronto, Canada; Guest Lecturer: Queen's University Faculty of Law, Commercial Law: The CISG: An Overview, Upper Year Law Course, Course Instructor: Prof. Tanya J. Monestier, November 10, 2008, Kingston, Canada; Sessional Lecturer: "Legal Process Advanced" Course (IFA2902) Fall 2008, Diploma in Investigative & Forensic Accounting (DIFA) Capstone Program, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario; Evaluator/Judge: Diploma in Investigative & Forensic Accounting (DIFA) Capstone Program (2007, 2008), University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario; Program Co-Chair: "International Legal Issues for Today's Business Lawyer: Challenges and Solutions," Ontario Bar Association 2008 Institute of Continuing Legal Education, February 5, 2008, Toronto, Canada; Guest Speaker: OBA International Law Section Program: "International Law - Sea Changes in Canadian Conflict of Laws Practice: An Update," May 30, 2007, Toronto, Canada; Guest Speaker: 2007 OBA Annual Institute of Continuing Legal Education-Special Event, "International Breakfast: Cross-border High Anxiety?: Offensive and Defensive Strategies in Transnational Litigation," February 7, 2007, Toronto, Canada; Guest Lecturer: University of Western Ontario Law School, 402A Commercial Law: "The CISG-An Overview," Upper Year Law Course, Course Instructor: Prof. Jassmine Girgis, October 2, 2006, London, Canada.
 
Reported CasesLangford v. 1734141 Ontario Ltd,. 2008 CanLII 67413 (ON S.C.), 2008 CarswellOnt 7803 (Ont. S.C.J.); Suraleb Inc. v. Production Association "MTW Tractor Works", Republic of Belarus, Court File No. 08-CV-349415PD1-July 9, 2008 (unreported) (Ont. S.C.J.); ATI Technologies ULC v. Henderson Robb Group, [2008] O.J. No. 1017, 41 C.B.R. (5th) 94, 2008 CarswellOnt 1418, 2008 WL 726946, 165 A.C.W.S. (3d) 779, CanLII 11046 (Ont. S.C.J.—in Bankruptcy), see also companion decisions: William E. Robb Enterprises Inc. v. ATI Technologies Inc.[2006] O.J. No. 4711; 153 A.C.W.S. (3d) 831(Ont. S.C.J.); ATI Technologies Inc. v. William E. Robb Enterprises Inc. et al. [2006] O.J. No. 3780 (Ont. S.C.J.); Tapscott Village Co-Operative Inc. v. Bullin, 2008 CanLII 4258 (ON S.C.J.); Ivandaev v. Hlembizky [2006] O.J. No. 2689 (Ont. C.A.);Standard Trust Co. (Liquidator of) v. Metropolitan Trust Co. of Canada et al. (2006) 21 E.T.R. (3d) 237; (2006) 40 R.P.R. (4th) 27; (2006) 144 A.C.W.S. (3d) 1130 (Ont. S.C.J.); aff'd [2007] O.J. No. 5002; 2007 ONCA 897; 232 O.A.C. 74; 36 E.T.R. (3d) 209; 62 R.P.R. (4th) 161; 162 A.C.W.S.(3d) 938; 2007 CarswellOnt 8279 (Ont. C.A.); 1162994 Ontario Inc. v. Bakker et al. [2004] O.J. No. 2565 (Ont. C.A.); Canadian Fashion Merchandising Corporation v. CIBC (2000) 106 O.T.C. 317, (2000) 95 A.C.W.S. (3d) 237 (Ont. S.C.J.); Re Drljo (2000) 21 C.B.R. (4th) 259 (Ont. S.C.J.-Bankruptcy Court);Serra v. Paniccia (Ont. S.C.J.-unreported -- per Somers, J.), varied on other grounds, [1999] O.J. No. 4707 (Ont. C.A.); Shaw v. Allstate Insurance Company, [1997] O.I.C.D. No. 86 (O.I.C. per Arbitrator Blackman), aff'd [1998] O.I.C.D. No. 181 (FSCO- Director of Arbitrations, per Susan Naylor, Director's Delegate); Ultramar Canada Inc. v. Mutual Marine Insurance Office [1995] 1 F.C. 341, (1994) 82 F.T.R. (F.C.T.D.).
 
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