George Pollack is a partner whose practice covers a broad range of complex commercial litigation matters, including extraordinary remedies, debt recovery, shareholder rights, securities and contractual disputes, as well as many other types of disputes and claims ranging from copyright to product liability and insurance suits.

He acts regularly on behalf of publicly and privately held companies in all fields of endeavour. George has represented clients before the courts at all levels in the province of Quebec and throughout the country, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also counselled clients in their dealings and appearances before various administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Securities Commission, the Montréal Stock Exchange, the Quebec College of Physicians and the Quebec Transportation Commission. As well, he has represented parties before the Gomery Commission and commissions of inquiry convened pursuant to the Canada Shipping Act.

In the last few years, George has been involved in a number of significant lawsuits, including acting for the State Property Fund of Ukraine in litigation arising out of the enforcement of a $65 million arbitration award, on behalf of a large United States-based wildlife conservation society in a dispute related to the production of a series of Imax films, on behalf of Noranda in a lawsuit with the Société Générale de Financement related to the closing of the Magnola magnesium factory, and for a junior mining company in an arbitration dispute related to a valuable mining concession located in Ungava, Quebec.

He has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of transportation and maritime law. George is regularly listed as a repeatedly recommended lawyer in shipping and maritime law by the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory. He was also cited as an expert lawyer by Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Shipping and Maritime Lawyers. George has achieved one of Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rankings.

In addition to his extensive litigation practice, George has one of the leading transportation law practices in the country, through which he handles complex international issues, often acting on instructions from insurance markets and leading law firms located in New York and London.

George is a member of the Canadian Maritime Law Association as well as of the Canadian Board of Marine Underwriters. He has spoken at a number of conferences in Canada, the United States and Europe on litigation, insurance and transportation law issues, and he is a regular contributor of a legal column in Canadian Sailings, a weekly shipping newspaper.

George received an LL.L. in 1978 from the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal and an LL.B. from McGill University in 1980. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1981 and to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1991.

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