Dan Bereskin is a founding partner of Bereskin & Parr LLP.
Dan provides strategic planning and business advice relating to all aspects of intellectual property law. Dan is renowned throughout the intellectual property field in Canada and abroad, and is responsible for managing the trademark portfolios of major multinational clients.
Dan has served as legal counsel to the International Trademark Association (INTA), and as a member of the INTA Board of Directors. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions throughout his illustrious career including being appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2020, Queen’s Counsel in 1982 (now King’s Counsel), a recipient of the INTA President's Award, named “Trademarks Lawyer of the Year” world-wide for eight consecutive years by Who's Who Legal, granted a Lifetime Achievement award by World Leaders International IP Awards in 2007, the recipient of a Lexpert Zenith Award in 2012 as a "change agent", elected to the IP Hall of Fame in 2014, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award by Managing Intellectual Property in 2017 and named “Lawyer of the Year 2020” by Best Lawyers for Intellectual Property in Canada.
Dan is the intellectual property judge of The Private Court, which provides mediation and arbitration services, and he is a mediator/arbitrator with ADR Chambers. He has also served as an Advisor to the American Law Institute on Transnational IP Dispute Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgment issues.
Dan is the author of The Canadian Law of Unfair Competition, published by Carswell, the editor/author of International Trademark Dilution, a treatise published by West Publishing and Westlaw, and of more than fifty papers and articles on various intellectual property law subjects. He wrote the Canada chapter in Famous and Well-Known Marks by Frederick Mostert published by INTA and is the author of the trademarks chapter in Intellectual Property Disputes: Resolutions & Remedies; by Ronald Dimock.
