Chuck helped found Bennett Gastle Professional Corporation.  He practises commercial litigation, international trade litigation, and international arbitration. Building on his trade expertise, he is also involved in trade policy development. 

 

Chuck has over twenty years of commercial litigation experience and has been involved in a variety of cases, including issues related to creditor-debtor remedies, enforcement of security, fraudulent conveyances, bankruptcy fraud, shareholder remedies, securities, breach of contract, disability and life claims, property claims, coverage issues and professional negligence. He has represented trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and court-appointed inspectors.

 

With respect to international arbitration, Bennett Gastle is currently representing an American investor in a NAFTA Chapter 11 case against the Government of Canada under the UNCITRAL Rules and a Canadian public company in an international arbitration under the American Arbitration Association Rules.

 

Each year Chuck travels to Aix-en-provence , in Southern France , to give a series of lectures at the Magistere, Driot des Affaires Fiscalite et Comptabilite, Universite D'Aix Marseille III.  

 

On June 15th, 2006, Chuck received the Osgoode Hall Law School Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award.  On March 11^th, 2004, Chuck received from the Government of France the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Palmes académiques.