Lawyer Profile
Matthew Huys
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Matthew practices complex, high-stakes corporate litigation, with a focus on energy, construction, insurance, and securities disputes. He is known for his strategic, commercially grounded approach to litigation and for advancing clients’ interests with a focus on achieving practical results, whether through the courts or negotiated resolution.
Matthew’s practice spans all aspects of construction law, including disputes involving contracts and specifications, construction liens, delay and disruption claims, negligence claims, and bond and insurance disputes.
A significant portion of Matthew’s practice involves disputes arising from resource, energy, and infrastructure assets, including mining, power generation, renewables, pipelines, midstream facilities, and other resource-related projects. He has acted for project owners and operators in commercial disputes involving project construction, power transmission, equipment supply, and claims against contractors, manufacturers, and other key counterparties.
Matthew has an active injunction practice. He has been involved with obtaining and defending over a dozen injunctions, including interlocutory injunctions, permanent injunctions, mandatory injunctions, numerous blockade injunctions for project proponents, and anti-suit injunctions.
Matthew also advises energy companies on environmental and climate change litigation risk. He regularly speaks and writes on climate change litigation in Canada and abroad.
Changes to the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act and Public Works Act aim to streamline payment processes and adjudication rules.
The Alberta Court released its first decision addressing the streamlined adjudication process under the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act. In...
Last month, Alberta amended its Rules of Court to introduce a new “streamlined trial” process. We look at what’s behind the change, how it...
A recent Alberta case found that beneficiaries of contractual warranties may be bound to arbitrate disputes arising from those contractual...
Osler is proud to announce the addition of 12 new partners and two new counsel across five of our offices, effective March 1, 2021.
Matthew is active in the Calgary community. He previously served as Chair of the Board of Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids Society, a local charity that provides lunches to approximately 7,000 children each school day.
He is also active in the legal community in Calgary and nationally. Matthew formerly served as an appointed member of The Advocates’ Society Young Advocates’ Standing Committee, where he participated in multiple national working groups focused on advocacy, practice development, and professional education, and as a member of the Alberta Regional Advisory Committee. He is also an instructor in the University of Calgary Faculty of Law’s Trial Advocacy Program.
“The Impact of Private Climate Change Litigation and Recent Competition Act Amendments on the Canadian Energy Sector: Regulatory and Legal Developments Shaping the Path Forward”, Alberta Law Review, Volume 63, Issue 2, November, 2025 (co-author)
Quoted in “Can Big Oil be made to pay like Big Tobacco?“, by Doug Beazley, CBA/ABC National, November 21, 2024
“Climate Change and the Right to a Healthy Environment in the Canadian Constitution“, Canadian Energy Law Foundation, August 12, 2020 (co-author)
“An early chapter in climate change litigation“, CBA National, June 1, 2020 (co-author)
“COVID-19 Evolving Legal Considerations in the Canadian Market”, Update: Mar 17, 2020 (co-author)
“Exxon wins first climate change disclosure securities fraud case”, Update: Dec 17, 2019 (co-author)
“Climate change litigation arrives in Canada”, (co-author, February 5, 2019).
“First of its kind – Ontario NDP tables civil liability for climate change bill”, Update: Apr 3, 2018 (co-author)
“Defining industry-specific contractual terms: Supreme Court of Canada revisits principles of contractual interpretation“, (co-author, February 16, 2017).
“Is it Unethical to Not Understand E-Discovery? Professional Liability and Discipline Litigation”, Volume XVI, No. 2, p 981-984, (co-author, 2015).
“Canada 2013 Year in Review, FCPA Professor”, (co-author, January 14, 2014).
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2012 (AB)