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.’’
—Chambers Canada, 2021
2018-2025 | Chambers Canada—Leading lawyer in projects: PPP and infrastructure |
2022-2024 | Chambers Global—Leading lawyer in projects: PPP and infrastructure |
2019-2023 | IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms—Highly regarded in project finance and PPP/PFI |
2021-2025 | Best Lawyers in Canada—Leading lawyer in project finance law |
2021-2023 | The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory—Leading lawyer in project finance and infrastructure law |
2019 | Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40—One of Canada’s leading lawyers under 40 |
2018 | The Legal 500—Next generation lawyer in infrastructure and projects |
Josh is on the board of directors for the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
Before joining Torys, Josh served as legal counsel for a global private merchant bank.