Lawyer Profile
Josh Van Deurzen
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
With a background in business and a history of working with clients on transformative and award-winning major infrastructure projects, Josh provides comprehensive, commercial-minded counsel to clients on their large-scale and high-profile projects across Canada and the United States.
With a dual call in Ontario and New York, Josh advises clients on commercial agreements for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of major infrastructure and public-private partnership (PPP) projects on both sides of the Canada / U.S. border.
Josh works with project participants spanning the infrastructure ecosystem—representing government authorities, developers, construction contractors, service providers, lenders and underwriters—on all aspects of development and financing transactions across the spectrum of social and economic infrastructure, including healthcare, broadband, transit and transportation, water and wastewater, education and power.
He is considered by sources to be ‘incredibly bright, hard-working and a good all-round individual.’’
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as the public authority for the C$692.8 million New Adult Corrections Facility PPP project to design, build, finance and maintain a new 21,000 square metre facility to replace Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Fengate PCL Progress Partners (Fengate Capital/PCL Investments) as the successful proponent for the US$294.5 million Clackamas County Circuit Courthouse PPP project to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new courthouse in Clackamas County, Oregon, which won IJGlobal‘s 2022 North America Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year
Infrastructure Ontario as the public authority for the Accelerated High Speed Internet Program, a new, innovative procurement process involving reverse auction events to subsidize the construction of high-speed internet projects throughout the province, a component of the Government of Ontario’s C$4 billion commitment to connect every region in Ontario to reliable, high-speed internet by the end of 2025, a program which won the 2022 Silver Award for Innovation and Excellence in Project Development from the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP)
Red River Valley Alliance (Acciona Concessions/Shikun & Binui/North American Construction Group) as the successful proponent for the US$2.1 billion Fargo-Moorhead Area Diversion PPP project to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a flood control project on the Red River that borders North Dakota and Minnesota, a project which won IFLR Americas Award’s 2022 Project Finance Deal of the Year, Project Finance International's 2021 Americas P3 Deal of the Year, Proximo’s 2021 North America Water Deal of the Year and IJGlobal's 2021 Water Deal of the Year - North America
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2011 (ON)