Jeffrey Marc St-Aubin

Jeff St. Aubin is a partner in the Construction Group at Cassels. His practice is focused on assisting clients through all phases of the construction process. Jeff has acted for municipalities, cities, utility companies, private owners, general contractors, and contractors. In helping clients achieve their objectives, Jeff draws upon more than two decades of experience in the construction sector, including practical commercial insight from technical and management roles prior to becoming a lawyer.

A significant portion of Jeff’s practice is dedicated to efficiently avoiding, mitigating, and resolving disputes and challenges that arise during the construction process. These include procurement disputes, contractual claims for relief, contractual interpretation issues, lien and trust claims, enforcement of performance security, and responding to insolvencies. Responding to these matters requires an understanding of the client’s objectives and a legal strategy that may include, depending on the circumstances, risk and option analyses, executive briefings, negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, and court proceedings.

In advance of construction, Jeff assists clients with project structuring, preparing contract documents, responding to matters that arise during procurement, and negotiating and executing the construction contract and ancillary agreements. Jeff has prepared bespoke construction agreements, procurement documents, template contract documents, and has worked with a variety of standard form agreements.

Projects that Jeff has been involved with include subways, light rapid transit systems, heavy rail, nuclear facilities, bridges, hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, wind and solar developments, electricity transmission and distribution, and natural gas distribution.