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Darrel H. Pearson

Partner

Head of International Trade and Investment Practice

Head of International Trade and Investment Practice |

T: 416.777.4811

M: 416.930.3839

Toronto

Pearson Darrel
 
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T: 416.777.4811

M: 416.930.3839


Toronto

  • Education
  • Bar Admissions
  • Recent Experience
  • Recent Recognition
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
  • Recent Recognition
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services

Darrel Pearson helps clients navigate their most complex international trade and investment law issues in an unpredictable global environment. He has nearly four decades of experience in the movement of goods, services and intellectual property across international borders—and resolving disputes with government agencies before Canadian Tribunals and Courts, and international treaty fora.

Darrel is head of the firm's international trade and investment practice. He uses his wealth of experience to provide clients with creative solutions and novel approaches to their trade matters. Clients value his extraordinary ability to look at rapidly evolving trade and investment issues from all perspectives. His thorough knowledge of the international trading system helps clients adapt and thrive in a world where many of the rules of global trade are being rewritten.

Darrel is a highly respected thought leader and frequent author and speaker on Canadian international trade law issues in Canada and abroad. He has mentored numerous lawyers who are now in leadership positions in trade and investment law.

What Clients Say

"He has strong leadership, understands our business and our issues and is an excellent mentor for the lawyers in succession."

Darrel's practice includes :

  • trade remedies,
  • customs,
  • international trade treaty matters,
  • export regulation,
  • sanctions and controls,
  • goods and services taxes,
  • government procurement dispute resolution and settlement,
  • tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade,
  • cross-border trade strategies,
  • internal and external audits,
  • compliance advice, and
  • customs transfer pricing practices.

Darrel has represented Canadian and international clients in more than 200 trade remedy matters involving goods exported to Canada from all over the world. He has pleaded some of the most important customs and trade remedy cases heard by Canadian Tribunals and Courts, including two cases heard by the Supreme Court of Canada .

Complementing his international trade and investment practice, Darrel is a qualified arbitrator of international commercial and investment treaty disputes and is appointed to the Roster for Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) Binational Panels. He is internationally recognized as a leading international trade practitioner in multiple independent legal directories, and is consistently ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global and The Legal 500.

Education

University of Toronto, BSc, 1975 York University, MBA, 1977 University of Windsor, LLB, 1980 ADR Institute of Ontario, certified as Arbitrator, 2006 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1982

Recent Experience

Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC and Kissner Group Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in their US$3.2-billion agreement to acquire K+S Aktiengesellschaft's North and South American salt business, including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt.
Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metals Corp., Canada Border Services Agency and Canadian International Trade Tribunal investigations into dumping and injury relating to large diameter line pipe imported from Japan.
Fluor Canada, Canadian International Trade Tribunal injury relating to certain fabricated industrial steel components, and judicial review proceedings before the Federal Court of Appeal.
Rio Tinto Alcan, Canada Border Services Agency and Canadian International Trade Tribunal investigation into dumping/subsidization and injury relating to silicon metal imported from Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Russia.
Multinational Logistics Services, Government procurement claim before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
Cenovus Energy Inc., Request for exclusion from a finding of injurious dumping/subsidization of large diameter line pipe and scoping of protective commercial procurement terms and conditions.
Hyundai Electric and Engineering Systems, Expiry Review proceedings relating to a Canadian International Trade Tribunal Order concerning the dumping of certain transformers into Canada.
Herrick Feinstein, Appeared as a Canadian anti-dumping expert witness in U.S. court dispute resolution proceedings involving a commercial dispute relating to a corporate acquisition and liability for Canadian anti-dumping duties.
Nestle Canada Inc., Appeared before the Canada Border Services Agency (President) and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal in customs litigation relating to the application of tariff rate quota, rates of customs duty.
Numerous public and private companies with Canadian business interests in connection with their customs (valuation/tariff classification/tariff preferences) and transfer pricing practices, preparing intercompany agreements and supervising preparation of suitable transfer pricing studies.

Recent Recognition

Chambers Canada
Band 1, International Trade/WTO
Chambers Global
Band 1, International Trade/WTO
The Legal 500 Canada
International Trade
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Consistently Recommended, Commodity Tax/Customs
Consistently Recommended, International Trade Regulation
Best Lawyers in Canada
International Trade and Finance Law
Lexpert Directory
International Trade Regulation, Commodity Tax/Customs
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating
Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Lawyers in Canada
International Trade
Lexpert Special Edition on Agribusiness & Cannabis
Recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in Agribusiness and Cannabis
Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
Ranked, International Trade
Who's Who Legal Canada
Recognized, Trade & Customs
Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders
Thought leader in Trade & Customs
Who’s Who Legal: Trade & Customs – A Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers
Recognized as a leading Trade & Customs lawyer

Insights, News & Events

Announcements

Bennett Jones Appointed to UK Government's Post-Brexit Trade Law Panel

January 26, 2021
       

Blog

Canada Border Services Agency Publishes Update of Trade Verification Priorities for 2021

January 20, 2021
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson on Trade and Cross-Border Transactions

December 18, 2020
       

Blog

The Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement: Deepening Ties Between Canada and the U.K.

December 17, 2020
       

Announcements

Twenty-Five Bennett Jones Lawyers in Lexpert/ALM 500 Directory

December 17, 2020
       

Blog

A Renewed Effort to Introduce Legislation to Combat Modern Slavery in Corporate Supply Chains

December 02, 2020
       

Announcements

40 Bennett Jones Lawyers in Lexpert's Special Edition on Litigation

November 27, 2020
       

Podcast

International Trade: Canada's Relationships With Its Key Trading Partners

October 22, 2020
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson in Globe and Mail on Post-Pandemic Global Trade

October 19, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones Advises on $3.2-Billion Agreement to Acquire K+S Americas Salt Business, Including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt

October 05, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones is Recognized in Chambers Canada 2021

September 10, 2020
       

Blog

Canada Obliged to Retaliate Again to U.S. Tariffs on Aluminum

August 14, 2020
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson on Dairy Industry and CUSMA

June 26, 2020
       

Articles

Update on Impact of CUSMA on Canadian Energy Stakeholders

June 24, 2020
       

Blog

Trade Tribunal Ruling Confirms that Blanket Refund Requests are "Filed" on their Application Date, not the Date of CBSA Approval

June 17, 2020
       

Announcements

21 Bennett Jones Lawyers in Lexpert's Agribusiness and Cannabis 2020

June 11, 2020
       

Blog

The Stakes Are High in Global Trade, and Canada Should Help

May 15, 2020
       

Blog

Trade Implications of COVID-19 from a Canadian Perspective

April 02, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones in Chambers Global 2020

February 13, 2020
       

Blog

CBSA Publishes Update of Trade Verification Priorities for 2020

February 04, 2020
       

Blog

Introducing Incoterms 2020

January 21, 2020
       

Blog

NAFTA "2.1"—The Amended and Final Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement

December 17, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones is Top-Tier in The Legal 500

November 18, 2019
       

Speaking Engagements

Darrel Pearson at MGTA Canada Day Presentation

November 13, 2019
       

Guides

Canadian Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Measures

November 08, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones' Leading Lawyers in Chambers Canada 2020

September 19, 2019
       

Blog

Canada Implements New Export Brokering Controls to Join the UN Arms Trade Treaty

September 18, 2019
       

Blog

CBSA Publishes Update of Trade Verification Priorities: Are You Ready?

September 04, 2019
       

Announcements

Lexpert's 2019 Guide to U.S./Canada Cross-Border Lawyers

June 14, 2019
       

Blog

Trade Roundup: What's New in Steel Safeguards, U.S. Surtaxes and CUSMA

June 12, 2019
       

Announcements

136 Lawyers in Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

May 06, 2019
       

Updates

Canada Ends Surtax on Certain Steel Imports but Launches Consultations on Other Protection

April 29, 2019
       

Blog

Canadians to Face U.S. Liability under Helms-Burton as of May 2, 2019

April 17, 2019
       

Articles

Drilling Down on the Impact of CUSMA on Canadian Energy Stakeholders

March 27, 2019
       

Speaking Engagements

2019 Spring Conference - International Compliance Professionals Association

March 26, 2019
       

Speaking Engagements

European American Chamber of Commerce on NAFTA 2.0

February 25, 2019
       

Speaking Engagements

Perspectives of Foreign Trading Partners

February 20, 2019
       

Updates

Canada Increases Steel Quota for Mexico and Drops Surtax on Re-Imported Canadian Steel

February 15, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones in Chambers Global 2019

February 14, 2019
       

Announcements

22 Bennett Jones Lawyers in Leading 500 in Canada

December 12, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

Energy Trade Law Issues

November 28, 2018
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2018

November 01, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

Bennett Jones Construction Breakfast Seminar 2018

October 30, 2018
       

Updates

Canada to Impose Provisional Steel Safeguards Effective October 25

October 15, 2018
       

Guides

Canadian Safeguard Measures

October 04, 2018
       

Updates

Introducing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

October 04, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

Legally Speaking - The Practice of International Trade in Canada

October 02, 2018
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson in Canadian Press on NAFTA and Section 232

September 20, 2018
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson on Trade War Planning for In-House Counsel

September 12, 2018
       

Blog

Canada Launches Steel Imports Safeguard Consultation

August 15, 2018
       

Blog

The Canadian Senate to Review Bill C-21 for Enhanced Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Cooperation

July 20, 2018
       

Blog

Countering the Countermeasures Mitigation Strategies for Importers

July 18, 2018
       

Blog

Canada Counters U.S. Tariffs with Measures of its Own

June 30, 2018
       

Announcements

Lexperts 2018 Guide to U.S. Canada Cross-Border Lawyers in Canada

June 27, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

2018 International Compliance Professionals Association

June 18, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

2018 Global Law Week

June 11, 2018
       

Blog

Canada Retaliates to U.S. Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

June 05, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

2018 International Compliance Professionals Association Conference

May 6-8, 2018
       
2018
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Event

ICPA Conference

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Announcements

120 Lawyers in Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

April 16, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

International Compliance Professionals Association Conference 2018

March 11-14, 2018
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones in Chambers Global 2018

February 15, 2018
       

Blog

CBSA Announces 2018 Trade Verification Priorities

February 05, 2018
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers—Canadian Leaders

November 24, 2017
       

Speaking Engagements

American Bar Association Fall Conference Miami, Florida

October 25-26, 2017
       

Speaking Engagements

U.S. and Canada Cross-Border Transfer Pricing

October 22-25, 2017
       

Speaking Engagements

American Conference Institute 2017

September 25-27, 2017
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson on Duty-Free Threshold and E-Commerce in NAFTA

August 29, 2017
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson in Lexpert on Bri-Chem Trilogy

August 10, 2017
       

Announcements

Four Bennett Jones Practices Ranked Band 1 by Chambers Global 2017

March 16, 2017
       

Speaking Engagements

International Compliance Professional Association EU Conference 2017

March 12-15, 2017
       

Blog

CBSA Announces 2017 Trade Verification Priorities

January 13, 2017
       

In the News

Darrel Pearson on Trump and Canada's Supply Chain

December 07, 2016
       

Speaking Engagements

International Compliance Professional Association's (ICPA) EU Conference

June 5-7, 2016
       

Speaking Engagements

Understanding Other Government Department Regulations in Canada

March 16, 2016
       

Speaking Engagements

Canadian Market Entry: Key Customs Legal Considerations

March 13-16, 2016
       

Related Services

Agribusiness, Food & Beverage
Automotive
International Trade & Investment
Regulatory
WTO Law & Policy
Arbitration
China
Procurement & Outsourcing
Retail, Consumer & Luxury Law
Anti-Corruption Investigations & Compliance
Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)
Product Regulation
Transfer Pricing

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