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Adam Soliman

Associate

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Tel: +1 416 917 1369

Email: asoliman@tyrllp.com

Bar Admissions: Ontario, 2019

Practice Areas:

  • Arbitration
  • Class Action Defence
    • Advertising & Consumer Claims
    • Appellate Litigation
    • Commercial Disputes
    • Competition & Anti-Trust Litigation
    • Defamation Claims
    • Franchise Disputes
    • Gaming Disputes
    • Professional Negligence
    • Public Interest & Constitutional Litigation
  • Employment Litigation
  • Investigations & Regulatory Defence
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Technology & Privacy Disputes
  • Shareholder, Partnership & Securities Disputes
  • Sports Disputes

Adam is an effective advocate with experience advising international clients across a range of complex matters.

Adam frequently obtains favourable outcomes on behalf of his clients. He provides trusted counsel to clients on a range of complex matters, including commercial, sports, employment, disciplinary, and medical malpractice disputes.

Adam has appeared before the Courts, tribunals, and arbitral panels in several jurisdictions within Canada and internationally. He routinely advises sports federations, corporations, executives, and professional athletes and coaches on regulatory, commercial, employment, disciplinary, integrity, and anti-doping issues. Adam has extensive international experience working across a diverse client base. He is results-oriented, and brings a tactful and nuanced understanding of cultural and geopolitical context to negotiations.

Adam also has a background in technology-related and defamation disputes and is a member of the litigation team representing Google LLC in Canada. As lead researcher with the Samuelson-Glushko Centre for Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) from 2016-2018, Adam also assisted counsel with oral and written submissions for several interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada, including: Google v Equustek, Haaretz.com v Mitchell Goldhar, R v Jarvis, BC v Philip Morris, and Rogers v Voltage.

Adam is active outside of the office. He enjoys endurance sports, is Chair of the Sports Lawyers’ Association Subcommittee on Motorsport, and trained with the University of Toronto's Varsity Track & Field Team.

Publications

"Click Here to Agree: Managing Intellectual Property When Crowdsourcing Solutions", Harvard Business Review / 60:2 Business Horizons (2017).

Professional Affiliations
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • The Advocates' Society
  • The Sports Lawyers Association
  • Toronto Lawyers' Association
Teaching Engagements

Guest Judge — Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP Moot Competition (2016-2020)

Education
  • University of Ottawa, JD (With Technology Law Option), 2018
  • University of Toronto, BA (Honours With Distinction), 2012
  • Adam has demonstrated success with oral and written advocacy. He was a member of the winning contingent at the 2017 Harold G. Fox IP Moot Competition, and the first-place team at the 2016 Nelligan O'Brien Payne Moot Competition, where he was also nominated for best factum.
  • Adam has co-authored articles on internet jurisdiction and intellectual property law. His contributions have been published in Harvard Business Review and Business Horizons.