Alyssa Shivji (she, her, hers) Partner | Toronto

About Alyssa

Alyssa's practice focuses on public procurement, infrastructure, public-private partnerships (P3s) and construction law. She regularly advises clients on the development, preparation and ongoing administration of public tenders and procurement processes, the development of template procurement documents and implementation toolkits, the development and negotiation of commercial agreements for goods and services across a range of sectors, and the development and negotiation of commercial agreements for the design, construction, financing and maintenance of infrastructure.

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, information technology, gaming, energy and mining. She also regularly acts for both procuring entities and bidders with respect to conducting a successful procurement process, fairness issues, mitigating procurement risk and avoiding compliance issues.

In particular, 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 also regularly advises clients on a variety of commercial agreements across a range of sectors for goods, services and construction.

Select Experience

Representative transactions include acting on behalf of and advising:

Infrastructure/PPP Projects:

Toronto Transit Commission on its Bloor-Yonge Capacity Improvements progressive design and build project
City of Calgary on the Green Line Stage 1 Light Rail design, build and finance project and acquisition of light rail vehicles
Metrolinx on the Hamilton LRT design, build, finance, operate and maintain project
City of Mississauga on its Dundas Bus Rapid Transit design-build project
Metrolinx on the Bloor-Lansdowne SmartTrack GO Station design-build project
Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension – Advance Tunnel design, build and finance project
Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension – Advance Tunnel 2 design, build and finance project
City of Toronto on the F.G. Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation project
Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx on the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of the GO Rail expansion project
VIA Rail on its Maintenance Facilities Modernization Project
City of Winnipeg on the design and build of upgrades to the North End Sewage Treatment Plant
Infrastructure Ontario on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT design, build, finance and maintain project
City of Winnipeg on the design, build, finance and maintain project for the Southwest Rapid Transitway (Stage 2) and Pembina Highway Underpass
City of Hamilton on the design, build, finance, operate and maintain for the Biosolids Management Project
Infrastructure Ontario on projects including:
- Design, build and financing of sports venues for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games, Hamilton Stadium, York University Athletics Stadium and Milton Velodrome, Pan Am Aquatics Centre, Pan Am Field House and Canadian Sport Institute Ontario
- Build-finance project for the Credit Valley Hospital Priority Areas Redevelopment Project and the Hawkesbury & District Hospital Project
City of Saskatoon on the design, build, finance, operate and maintain project for the Phase One Civics Operation Centre Project
City of Saskatoon on the design, build, finance and maintain project for the North Commuter Parkway and the Traffic Bridge Project
City of Calgary on a design, build, construction, operate and maintain P3 project for an organics processing facility (food and de-watered biosolids)
City of Calgary on the Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant D Expansion Project
City of Moncton on the Moncton Downtown Centre project (a new multi-use sports and entertainment centre)

Procurement and Corporate/Commercial Matters

Marine Atlantic with respect to the procurement of a new vessel
VIA Rail with respect to the acquisition of its Fleet Modernization Project
A consortium of Ontario colleges with respect to the development and implementation of procurement and contract template documents
University of Toronto with respect to the development of a procurement policy and related procedures, template procurement documents and template contract documents
An Ontario broader public sector entity with respect to the development of a procurement policy and related procedures, template procurement documents and template contract documents