David I. Bristow is a member of Team Resolution, a Toronto-based Alternative Dispute Resolution group, which provides ADR Services consisting of Mediations, Arbitrations, Early Neutral Evaluation, Mini-Trials, Med-Arb and Private Appeals from Arbitral Awards and Trial Judgments in civil actions.

Mr. Bristow is a former counsel to Fraser Milner Casgrain, a national law firm, where he headed the Construction Law Group, and is the co-author of the leading text on the subject of construction law in Canada. He was the Founding Chairman of the Ontario Bar Association Construction Law Section and a past Chairman of the Canadian Bar Association Construction Law Section.

Mr. Bristow has a wealth of experience in Commercial Arbitration and Mediation as well as other alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and in civil litigation in all levels of court from trial to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Mr. Bristow was the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Distinguished Service Award in 1996 and named in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s 4th Edition of its Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, was named by Lexpert (U.S.A.) as one of the top 500 lawyers in Canada, was named in the publication Best Lawyers in Canada 2008, 2009 and 2010 and in the Financial Post's list of best lawyers and was cited by the American ARbitration Association as a world-renowned specialist in the field of arbitration and ADR.

He was the recipient in 2002 of the Law Society of Upper Canada Medal (Ontario) and with it the designation LSM and received the Golden Jubilee Medal of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002. In December, of that year, he received the Giffin Award by the construction industry for outstanding service to this industry. He was the first lawyer to receive this award.

Mr. Bristow is a prolific author and frequent lecturer in Canada, the United States, Cuba, Barbados and Mexico.

Mr. Bristow is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s Panel of Arbitrators, on the Commercial and Construction Panels, is a Mediation and arbitration panel member of the International Chamber of Commerce and is a Mediation and Arbitration Panel Member with the Centre for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is a member of the International Academy of Mediators and is on the editorial boards of the Construction Law Letter and the Construction Law Reports, and a contributor to the Daily Commercial News and many other publications. He is a member of the Swiss Dispute Board Federation, a charter member of the non-profit organization Mediators Beyond Borders, and a founding member of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society.

Mr. Bristow was a Fairness Monitor for a proposed new Bridge project in British Columbia for the British Columbia Government.

Mr. Bristow’s recent mediation and arbitration activities include the Confederation Bridge from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island, the Windsor Detroit tunnel, the Halifax International Airport, major highways in Canada and co-generation power plant, stadiums, ocean cargo-leading equipment, internet gambling, diamond vendors, hotels, nickel mines, a nuclear power plant in China and offshore land development, oil drill rigs in Cuba and schools in Grand Cayman.

Contact David I. Bristow at 480 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1V2 Telephone: 416-597-3395 Facsimile: 416-597-3370 bristow@gsnh.com