Recognition, praise, and plaudits

  • Consistently recognised as a leading practitioner in International Trade by the publication Legal 500 Canada

  • Recognised in Best Lawyers in Canada (2006 to 2022) in the area of international trade and finance.

  • Recognised as a leading practitioner in International Trade/WTO (2016 to 2021) in the Chambers Canada Guide.

  • Recognised in 2021 as “Highly Regarded” in the field of indirect tax by the International Tax Review’s World Tax Guide

  • Consistently recognised as leading practitioner in the fields of international trade, regulation, commodity taxation and customs (2016 to 2021) in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.

  • Consistently recognised as a leading practitioner in Trade and Customs Law and “Global Elite Thought Leader” by Who’s Who Canada Legal.

  • Ranked for the last seventeen (17) years in International Trade/WTO by Chambers Global.

What others are saying

Peter Kirby is “a legend and veteran of many trade battles”, revered for his “amazing capability of solving complex issues” and “great capacity for thinking outside the box”
- anonymous respondent to WWL survey.

“I like to work with Peter Kirby. Peter is very wise and very smart. He has extremely good knowledge of Canadian trade and customs law, but he has a much broader perspective on things outside of Canadian law. He can analyse the laws and regulations based on his knowledge of WTO/WCO guidance and regulations, as well as international trade agreement. From my perspective, he has very unique and broad perspective which really helps.”
- anonymous respondent to Chambers Global survey.

“That Kirby and his team, Arif Chowdhury of Calgary and Aïda Mezouar in Montréal, were able to thwart the bureaucracy is not only a tribute to the rule of law and a significant landmark in shaping the relationship going forward between administrative tribunals and public officials, but also a testament to thoughtful strategy, hard work, focused preparation and skilled advocacy, as well as an object lesson in managing complicated, hard-fought litigation against the state within the strictures of clients’ budgets.”
- Julius Melnitzer in Last Stop on the ‘Administrative Ride’, Lexpert, August 23, 2017.