Construction & Infrastructure
Liens, delay and change-order claims, scheduling, subcontract and deficiency disputes. Built for Ontario's megaproject pipeline.
Practice
Six areas, one reason.
Each of these is a place where a dispute turns on a document somebody has to actually read — a subcontract, a system impact assessment, a processing agreement, a benefits file. The process is mediation or arbitration. The area is the context it runs in.
Subject matter
Where I take appointments.
Dispute types, the process shape, and why the area is live — one page each.
Technology, AI & Data
Software contracts, SLA and MSA breakdowns, data residency and processing, AI vendor diligence, IP and licensing.
Energy, Grid & Regulatory
Connection assessment and approval, leave to construct, proponent–municipality disputes, and IESO market participation.
Insurance, SABS & LAT
Accident benefits and SABS entitlement, MIG disputes, and private mediation retained by the parties, not the Tribunal's case conference.
Shareholder & Family Business
Shareholder and partnership disputes, co-founder breakdowns, and business succession in family-held companies.
Cross-Border & Diaspora
Diaspora business succession, dual-jurisdiction shareholder disputes, and cross-cultural commercial matters. Conducted in English or Farsi.
The role
The same role in all six.
I act as a neutral. I do not act for a party in a matter I take, and each party should have their own legal advice.
What changes between these pages is the record underneath the dispute and the vocabulary it is written in. What does not change is the appointment: I run a process, I do not run a case for anybody in it.
Also offered
Before, or instead of, a process.
Three engagements that are not a mediation or an arbitration. Priced hourly.
- Early neutral evaluation
- A reasoned assessment of the merits, delivered to both parties together, early enough to change what they do next. It is not advice to one side and it does not bind anyone. Parties use it where the gap between two positions is a disagreement about how a case would actually go.
- Dispute-system design
- Building the escalation and resolution machinery into a contract or a programme before there is a dispute — tiered clauses, who decides what and when, what triggers each stage. Advisory work for an organisation, not an appointment.
- Pre-dispute technical advisory
- Reading the technical record in a matter that has not become a dispute yet: the change orders and the schedule, the system impact assessment, the model card and the data-processing terms. Read the paragraph below before proposing this one.
One thing to know about the third. Advising one organisation before a dispute can conflict me out of an appointment in the same matter later. That is not a reason to avoid the work, but it is a reason to decide which one you want from me first — and to raise it at the outset rather than after a file has developed.
The processes
And how each of them runs.
The area pages describe the disputes. These describe the process the parties are choosing between.
Next step
Start with a call.
Tell me the shape of the matter and who is involved, and I will tell you whether I am the right neutral for it. Inquiries are answered within two business days.