Christina Doria

Biography

Christina Doria assists corporations, public entities, and states with litigation and arbitration, including enforcement of awards and judgments, and internal investigations. Christina co-chairs Baker McKenzie's North American International Arbitration Group. She is recognized by Who's Who Legal (WWL) in Canada since 2020, and by WWL Arbitration globally since 2020. She was also recognized by The Legal 500 and Euromoney Expert Guides as a rising star for dispute resolution, by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Leading Lawyer, since 2019, and as a Leading Litigation Lawyer in the 2023 Lexpert Special Edition.

With over 13 years' experience, Christina has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the courts of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba. She has also appeared before domestic and international arbitral tribunals and has acted on arbitrations under most commercial and investor state rules and has worked on bet-the-company internal investigations.

Comments from clients and peers include: "She is articulate, intuitive, well prepared and detail oriented"; "She quickly grasps complex subject matter relevant to tactical, strategic and technical issues of the case"; "She has a calm and compelling presentation style", "Quick to learn and a very sharp advocate"; "Extraordinarily strong counsel skills and an excellent command of international arbitration practice"; "She is a pleasure to work with and extremely able"; "Christina is creative and detailed in her legal advocacy"; "Well versed in domestic and international arbitration"; "A true pleasure to work with"; "Christina has excellent knowledge of case law"; and "an up and-coming arbitration counsel".

Christina has a keen perspective as counsel, having sat as an arbitrator under the ICC Rules and the ICDR Rules.

She began her career in Baker McKenzie's New York office as the recipient of an international clerkship award, before returning to Toronto.

Contributing to the global and Canadian arbitration bar, Christina is on the ICDR Canada Advisory Committee. She sat on the ICDR International Advisory Committee (subcommittee for ICDR Publications and Education), the Advisory Board of YCAP, and served as a VP for Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP). She was a founding steering committee member of Baker McKenzie's Women in Arbitration Group. She was an executive board member of the ICDR, Young and International (ICDR Y&I), and on the ICDR Y&I Global Advisory Board. She was a North American Regional Representative for the LCIA's Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), and a founding member of the Firm's International Arbitration Associates Forum.

Practice Focus

Christina is experienced in energy, mining and infrastructure cases, including in the transportation industry. She is also experienced in manufacturing, securities, biotech, aerospace, academic institutions, hotels, and agriculture.

She acts for clients on contractual disputes, investor-state disputes, matters involving fraud, bribery and corruption, jurisdictional disputes, banking matters, shareholder disputes, commercial class actions and economic torts.