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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
  • Privacy & Technology Disputes
  • Shareholder, Partnership & Securities Disputes
  • Sports Disputes

Adam is an effective advocate with experience advising clients across a range of complex and contentious disputes.

Adam frequently obtains favourable outcomes on behalf of his clients. He provides trusted counsel to organizations, executives, PEPs, and professional athletes on a range of complex matters, including commercial, sports and entertainment, employment, quasi-criminal, and medical malpractice disputes. Adam has extensive international experience working across a diverse client base, and brings a nuanced understanding of cultural and geopolitical context to negotiations. He has appeared before the Courts and arbitral panels in a number of jurisdictions within Canada and internationally.

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 also active outside of the office. He enjoys endurance sports and football, 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.