Richard Shaban > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
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Richard Shaban
Work Department
Construction
Position
Senior Partner
Career
Rick is a Senior Partner in BLG’s Construction Group and he is widely considered one of Canada’s leading infrastructure, surety and construction lawyers. Rick brings practical legal and industry-specific expertise to each client engagement.
Rick is recognized for his unrivalled P3 experience in the healthcare sector, having been extensively involved in healthcare infrastructure projects across Ontario.
He specializes in construction, surety and procurement law including: construction contracts and project delivery methods, public infrastructure procurement and contracts, construction insurance and surety bonds.
Rick has been actively involved in a large number of construction and infrastructure projects – successfully leading transaction teams and closing a number of public-private partnership deals, as well as crafting complex project agreements.
Rick also has extensive experience in domestic and international dispute resolution having resolved countless project disputes including appearances at every level of court including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Rick is recognized by the foremost legal rankings publications including Chambers Canada for Construction (Band 1) and Who’s Who Legal: Government Contracts and Construction.
Languages
English
Memberships
Rick is a founding Fellow and a past president of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers and a member of the International Bar Association American Bar Association (Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Fidelity & Surety Law Committee, and Forum on the Construction Industry), Canadian Counsel for P3s and Board of the Surety Association of Canada. He is a co-chair of the Osgoode Hall Certificate Program in P3 and a former member of the Finance Committee of the Canadian Construction Association.
Education
LLB, University of Windsor, 1983.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Construction
(Hall of Fame)A destination practice for construction law in Canada, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is a first port of call for the full range of stakeholders on construction projects, including sponsors, governmental entities, developers, lenders and equity investors. The sizeable group demonstrates adept handling of projects across all key industry sectors, with its recent work spanning a mix of transport, healthcare, energy and social infrastructure projects. It additionally stands out for its ability to support clients across the full chain of project matters, from planning and engineering issues, through to high-stakes construction disputes, including arbitrations. Calgary-based department head Patricia Morrison KC specializes in advising project owners, developers, contractors — and other parties — on managing their risks, from project initiation through to finish. In Toronto, senior counsel Richard Shaban
is widely regarded as a market leader; his practice combines strength in construction, surety and procurement law. In Montreal, Simon Grégoire is recommended for complex construction litigation, while Michael Skene is noted for construction disputes in Vancouver. The group also draws on up-and-coming construction litigator Rodney Smith (Calgary) and Gabriel Lefebvre (Montreal), who has a focus on contractor claims.
Canada > Public procurement
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP‘s practice has a track record representing government authorities such as Crown corporations and municipalities, as well as private sector developers and contractors, in a range of public procurements. The practice is jointly directed by in Toronto by Richard Shaban, who brings strength to advising hospitals, public authorities, developers and contractors on construction projects; and infrastructure specialist Mark Fecenko; and by Vancouver-based partner Douglas Sanders (who manages PPPs and the drafting of construction contracts).
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property