Adjunct Professor

Michael Valo specializes in international construction arbitration, and has experience working for owners, contractors, and engineers. His work focuses on large scale projects and infrastructure including pipelines, power generation and transmission, refineries, tunneling, light rail, mining and hospitals. Michael has extensive experience with claims for disruption, delay and prolongation, designer negligence, and construction deficiencies. In addition to his arbitration experience, Michael has also advised clients in respect of disputes before project Dispute Resolution Boards.

Michael is the co-author of a chapter in "Review of Construction Law: Recent Developments" about Building Information Modeling (Toronto: Carswell, 2012), and of the chapter “Sustainable Construction” in “Modern Legal Landscape of Design Professional Practice” (Toronto: Carswell, 2023). He was previously a co-editor of the IBA’s Construction Law International.

Michael is a Founding Member of the Society of Construction Law North America and Regional Director for the Ontario region. He has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer to Watch by Lexpert, and by Who’s Who as a Future Leader in Construction Law.

Courses

From Blueprints to Buildings: Legal Issues in the Construction Industry