Alyssa Shivji

Alyssa has over 10 years of experience practicing 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, best practices for conducting a successful procurement process, fairness issues and conflicts of interest and often leads the drafting of all procurement and contractual documentation. She has also helped numerous organizations with the development of template procurement documents, standardized commercial and construction agreements and the delivery of associated training and implementation tools. 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, information technology, gaming, energy and mining. 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. · Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP