Michael Valo

Michael Valo

Partner at Glaholt Bowles LLP
(416) 368-8280
(416) 368-3467
141 Adelaide St W, Suite 800, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2011 (ON)
Michael specializes in international construction arbitration, and has experience working for owners, contractors, and engineers. His work focuses on large-scale infrastructure projects including pipelines, power generation and transmission, refineries, tunneling, light rail, mining and hospitals. Michael’s experience includes disputes under ICC and UNCITRAL rules, as well as ad hoc rules. Michael also advises clients in respect of disputes before project Dispute Resolution Boards. Michael’s dispute practice relates to all manner of project delivery methods including EPC and EPCM contracts, as well as public-private partnerships (P3). Michael has extensive experience with claims for disruption, delay and prolongation, designer negligence, and construction deficiencies. Michael is an Adjunct Professor of construction law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is the co-author of a chapter in Review of Construction Law: Recent Developments (Toronto: Carswell, 2012) on the subject of "Building Information Modeling," and the chapter “Sustainable Construction” in Modern Legal Landscape of Design Professional Practice. Michael was formerly a co-editor of the IBA’s Construction Law International.
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