Alyssa Shivji

Alyssa has over 12 years of experience practising exclusively in the areas of public procurement, infrastructure, and construction law. She regularly acts for procuring entities on complex procurements and provides advice on procurement planning and structuring, trade agreement compliance, fairness issues and conflicts of interest. She also acts for bidders, providing advice on avoiding compliance issues and strategies for success. Alyssa acts for clients in a wide range of sectors, including transit and transportation, civil infrastructure, roads and bridges, water and wastewater, health-care services, and information technology. Alyssa has extensive expertise in the procurement of mega infrastructure development projects and alternative finance and procurement projects across multiple jurisdictions and has been at the forefront of many municipal PPP projects across Canada. Alyssa has played a key role on numerous high-profile procurement and infrastructure projects across Canada, including VIA Rail’s acquisition of a new fleet, the Toronto Transit Commission’s Bloor Yonge Capacity Improvements Project, and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension Stations, Rail and Systems Project for Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx.