Lawyer Profile
Gregory G. Southam
Toronto, Ontario

Overview
“Greg is intelligent, creative, authoritative and an extremely valuable resource on the most complex projects. He is a strong advocate but never loses sight of the ultimate goal, which is to create a win-win result.”
In his two decades of practice, Greg has taken a lead role in some of the largest and most significant private-public partnership (PPP) and infrastructure projects in Canada and the United States. He has successfully guided projects across all transportation, rail, social/urban renewal, water/wastewater and alternative energy asset classes. Greg heads up the firm’s North American infrastructure/PPP practice and is one of the senior members in our commercial real estate group. He has worked on some of Canada’s largest office, development, construction, multi-family and hospitality sector transactions.
Acting for Aecon Infrastructure Ltd., who is leading the first package of the Hamilton Transit Alliance in the civil and utilities portion of the Hamilton LRT construction project.
Acted for Amico Design Build Inc. and Sacyr Canada Inc. as the construction joint venture to the Ontario Science Partners consortium of John Laing Limited, Sacyr Infrastructure Canada Inc. and Amico Major Projects Inc. in the successful $1.04 billion bid to design, build, finance and maintain the relocated Ontario Science Centre on a portion of Ontario Place in Toronto, Canada.
Acted for Canada Infrastructure Bank in financing HTEC Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation to build and operate a hydrogen liquefaction facility in Vancouver; three gaseous hydrogen production facilities in Burnaby, Nanaimo, and Prince George; and 20 hydrogen fueling stations in Western Canada.
Acted for SkyLink Guideway Partners, a consortium consisting of Dragados Canada, Inc. and Ledcor Investments Inc., in their successful bid to design, build and finance the Surrey Langley SkyTrain Project – Guideway Contract in British Columbia.
Acted for the Plenary-led consortium, Connect 6ix, consisting of Plenary Americas, Astaldi Group, Hitach, WeBuild and Transdev, with its bid to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Ontario Line - Rolling Stock, System, Operations and Maintenance (RSSOM) project. The RSSOM project is one of three P3 contracts to deliver the Ontario Line.
Acted for Ontario Transit Group, a consortium led by Ferrovial and Vinci, on its bid for the design, build and financing of the Ontario Line Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel project. The Southern Civil project is one of three PPP contracts to deliver the Ontario Line.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1998 (ON)