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    Matthew Kronby

    Partner
    Osler LLP
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Matthew Kronby is a Toronto-based partner in the Competition, International Trade and Foreign Investment Group of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. He specializes in cross-border compliance and dispute resolution under Canadian law, trade agreements and investment treaties. He assists business and government clients from around the world in negotiations and disputes under agreements such as the WTO Agreement, the USMCA and the CPTPP; in anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings; and in navigating economic sanctions, export controls and customs laws. Matthew has led legal teams in dispute settlement proceedings at the WTO and under other trade agreements, in matters ranging from subsidies and dumping to regulatory measures, customs rules, automotive and agricultural trade, and in investment arbitrations under the NAFTA.

    Matthew was previously Director General of the Government of Canada’s Trade Law Bureau (2009-2012) and served in the Bureau for fifteen years. He was Canada’s chief legal counsel in the negotiation of the CETA with the European Union and various other trade and investment treaty negotiations. He began his career as a foreign service officer, including a posting to the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he focused on trade and economic sanctions legislation and trans-border resource and environmental issues.

    Matthew teaches international trade law and investment arbitration as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and is appointed to Canada’s rosters of panelists under the USMCA and the CETA.

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