She began her career with the firm nearly 20 years ago
Vasuda Sinha has joined McCarthy Tétrault LLP as a partner on its national litigation and dispute resolution team.
She began her career as a student at law at McCarthy Tétrault’s Ottawa office in August 2007 before relocating to London to log stints with 4 Pump Court, Essex Court Chambers, and Fountain Court Chambers as a Fox Scholar, according to LinkedIn. She returned to Canada to work with Norton Rose Fulbright as a litigation associate for over five years.
Subsequently, Sinha became an international arbitration lawyer with Freshfields in Paris. She spent almost a decade in France before returning to Toronto and to McCarthy Tétrault.
“With their strong stable of clients that have material international investments to grow and protect, I’m looking forward to bringing the knowledge and experience I have developed in Paris back to Canada and the firm where I started my legal career in 2007,” Sinha said in a statement.
She concentrates on complex commercial and investment arbitrations, litigation, and cross-border and jurisdictional disputes in her practice. She has appeared before the SCC, ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID tribunals as well as the Supreme Court of Canada.
Sinha has advised clients on insolvency and investment treaty violation matters across industries and jurisdictions. Her clients have included organizations with global operations and investments in periods of geopolitical and market volatility.
“Vasuda’s expertise and well-earned reputation before Canadian and international dispute resolution tribunals will be particularly important to our clients managing and protecting their international investments including, in particular, in the energy, infrastructure and construction sectors,” said Thomas Sutton, national litigation and dispute resolution group leader at McCarthy Tétrault, in a statement.
Sinha is part of the International Chamber of Commerce (Canada) and Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners. She is called to the Ontario and Paris bars and is fluent in English, Hindi, and French. She champions diversity in the legal profession and has formally and informally mentored young lawyers.
