Peter Grant

Peter Grant is a partner and chair of our Technology, Communications and Intellectual Property Group in Toronto. He has pioneered the field of communications law in Canada, and his practice is substantially devoted to this field, including broadcasting and cable television licensing, satellite services, copyright negotiations, mass media and press law, cultural industries, and telecommunications and computer/communications regulation.

Mr. Grant is the author of numerous articles and publications, including The Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Handbook, a standard industry reference published every two years. He is the co-chair of the National Conference on Communications Law and Policy convened by the Law Society of Upper Canada every two years.

From 1974 to 1978, he was seconded by the firm to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) under an Executive Exchange Agreement. During this period, Mr. Grant acted as a Special Counsel to the Commission and performed duties as Commission counsel in numerous broadcasting and telecommunications regulatory proceedings.

He has acted as a consultant to UNESCO, Paris, on the Declaration on the Role of the Mass Media, and was a member of the Canadian delegation to UNESCO, Paris in 1974, and to the G-7 conference on the Information Society in Brussels in 1995. Mr. Grant is a past national chair of the Media and Communication Section of the Canadian Bar Association, and a former chair of the CBA Special Committee on Freedom of Information.

Mr. Grant acts as the Broadcasting Arbitrator for Canada, an office held under the Canada Elections Act, with the approval of all of the political parties in the Canadian House of Commons. In this capacity, he supervised the allocation of paid and free broadcast time to the parties in the last two federal general elections.

Mr. Grant appears in both the 2003 Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, published by Lexpert and American Lawyer, and the 2002 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the areas of entertainment and telecommunications. Mr. Grant was also listed in the 2002-2003 edition of The World's Leading Lawyers, published by Chambers Global, as a leading lawyer in the area of communications law.

He received his BA in 1964 and his LLB in 1967, both from the University of Toronto. Mr. Grant was called to the Ontario bar in 1969.