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Sabrina A. Bandali

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Sabrina A. Bandali helps Canadian and international clients navigate a broad range of international trade and investment law issues. She provides strategic advice related to free trade and investment protection agreements, customs law, foreign corrupt practices, economic sanctions, export controls, trade remedies, supply chain/forced labour and international disputes, including investment treaty arbitration. She represents clients in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, technology, consumer products, retail/fashion, life sciences, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and agriculture.

Sabrina is a tenacious advocate for her clients. She has litigated matters before ad hoc international arbitration tribunals, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (including the Commercial List). She represents clients in trade verifications, trade remedy disputes and appeals of customs valuation, tariff classification, and origin decisions by the Canada Border Services Agency.

What Clients Say

"Sabrina Bandali’s level of sophistication, client service and commercial awareness is very strong ... I think she is a pleasure to work with."

As part of her advisory practice, Sabrina helps clients understand the tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade that affect importers and exporters. She develops practical strategies to optimize clients’ cross-border trade activity, including helping them navigate supply chain compliance risks. Sabrina assists businesses in designing and implementing anti-corruption, sanctions, forced labour and import/export compliance programs and conducts related internal investigations and audits.

Sabrina is a frequent speaker on matters related to international trade law and policy, and has testified about Canada’s sanctions regime before the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she teaches domestic and international anti-corruption law.

What Clients Say

"She’s bright, positive and has great energy. She’s a very good listener and can translate what a client is looking for into functional and practical outputs."

Sabrina is a member of the Advocates' Society, American Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association and Transparency International. She is a Past Chair of the Canadian Bar Association national Women Lawyers Forum.

Education

University of King's College and Dalhousie University, BA (Hons., Contemporary Studies and Political Science), 2005, First Class Honours  University of Oxford, MSt (Oriental Studies – Islamic Law and Modern Middle Eastern History), 2008, with distinction  University of Toronto, JD, 2011 

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Ontario, 2012

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Piedmont Lithium, one of only two U.S.-domiciled lithium companies actively supplying in the market today, in its merger with Sayona Mining, creating a combined entity with enterprise value of approximately US$623 million, and in Piedmont's concurrent US$27-million private placement of shares
LSI Industries (Nasdaq; LYTS), a manufacturer of commercial lighting and display solutions, in its acquisition of Canada’s Best Store Fixtures, a provider of retail fixtures and custom store design solutions for grocery, quick service restaurant, c-store, banking and specialty retail environments
A Canadian manufacturing company, internal investigation into bribery allegations related to the exportation/importation of products abroad
A Canadian consumer products company, design and implementation of third-party risk mitigation compliance program
Lone Pine in a USD $120-million investor-state arbitration against the Government of Canada arising from the revocation of permits for Lone Pine to undertake shale gas exploration in the St. Lawrence River by the Province of Quebec
Delta Galil USA Inc., in an appeal to the CITT concerning the customs valuation of imported goods and what constitutes permanent establishments for customs law purposes
Michaels of Canada, ULC, in respect of the customs valuation of goods imported into Canada and related judicial review before the Federal Court of Canada
Novatex Limited and G-Pac Corporation, Canadian International Trade Tribunal injury inquiry relating to polyethylene terephthalate resin (PET resin) imported from Pakistan, Oman, India and China
C&F International Limited, Canadian International Trade Tribunal injury inquiry relating to steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) imported from China, Korea and Turkey
Fluor Canada Ltd., in its participation before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal injury inquiry related to certain fabricated industrial steel components (FISC) and judicial review proceedings before the Federal Court of Appeal
Luxtona Limited, an affiliate of Yukos Oil, in proceedings in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by the Russia Federation for the set-aside of an interim award related to the Energy Charter Treaty arbitration between Luxtona and Russia

Recent Recognition

Lexpert 500 Leading Cross-Border Lawyers
Ranked in International Trade
Lexperts Rising Stars Leading Lawyers Under 40
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Ranked, International Trade/WTO
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Band 2, International Trade/WTO
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Most Frequently Recommended, International Trade Regulation
Consistently Recommended, Environmental, Social & Governance ESG
Repeatedly Recommended, Commodity Tax/Customs


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Recommended, Trade & Customs
Who’s Who Legal: Trade & Customs – A Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers
Recognized as a leading trade and customs and international sanctions lawyer
The Legal 500 Canada
Leading Lawyer, International Trade

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