Seumas Woods is a partner in the litigation department at the Toronto office of Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP. He holds law degrees from the Universities of Saskatchewan, Toronto and Oxford, attending the last of those three as a Rhodes scholar. Seumas specialises in complex corporate and commercial, construction and securities litigation. He has appeared at all levels of the Canadian courts, as well as before arbitrators in both domestic and international arbitrations, and administrative tribunals including the Ontario Securities Commission, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the Competition Tribunal. Seumas was co-counsel with Joel Richler on the MPI Technologies Inc v Xerox Canada Limited case discussed in the 'Canada' article in the 2007 edition of this publication.