At Singleton Reynolds, our people are what makes us great. We come together every day with the common goal of providing exceptional legal services and ensuring we go above and beyond for each and every client.
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The range of backgrounds of the partners, counsel, associates and staff of Singleton Reynolds enables us to offer a broad range of services.
Singleton Reynolds’ lawyers spend a significant amount of time researching and thinking about how industry or legislative changes could affect your business.
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Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP is recognized as a leader in construction and infrastructure, insurance, commercial litigation, real estate and business law.
Singleton Reynolds has offices to serve you in Vancouver and Toronto.
Singleton Reynolds believes in community. Our team members are teaching at Canadian universities and abroad, lecturing the next generation of lawyers.
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Singleton Reynolds prides itself in being a leader in corporate social responsibility. We encourage diversity, charity, mentorship, civic dedication and neighbourhood support.
Singleton Reynolds strives to understand the balance between your career and your personal goals and encourages our legal and operations staff in the pursuit of their interests outside of the firm.
Our goal is to develop strong lawyers from student right through to partner. Mentoring and training start when you are a student and continue throughout your practice.
We are always on the lookout for talented professionals to contribute to our team. Singleton Reynolds offers a professional and challenging work environment, with a competitive compensation and benefits package.
We are a preeminent Canadian construction and infrastructure law firm. Our peers and clients recognize our lawyers as the best in the construction industry.
We are top-ranked by Leading Global Rankings Agencies and Directories.
Founded in 1982 on a construction litigation platform, Singleton Reynolds has established itself as a leading construction firm in Canada, and continues to draw a large volume of assignments related to all aspects of the construction and infrastructure sectors. We are proud to provide service to our clients in areas related to the construction and infrastructure industry.
Our team of highly skilled, experienced and industry-recognized lawyers ensure that our clients receive practical, holistic advice that contemplates not only all legal aspects of their issues, but the business and construction aspects as well.
Our construction lawyers draw on their significant experience, and deep understanding of the construction industry, to provide clients with cost-effective and innovative solutions to the wide variety of issues they face in their day-to-day operations. We are unrivaled in our ability to devise creative solutions to both standard and unique problems.
We have designed risk management and loss-control programs for a variety of participants in the industry and have represented our clients at all levels of court in Canada, as well as in every other dispute resolution forum – including structured negotiations, mediation, domestic and international arbitration, dispute review boards, independent certifier disputes, and adjudication. We offer clients a complete project lifecycle service, developed through involvement in all stages of the construction process.
Our team has unparalleled depth and experience in understanding and resolving the multiple legal issues faced by the construction and infrastructure industries. Some examples of our experience include:
Contracts – Procurement & Negotiation
Project Advice & Dispute Avoidance
Disputes
We are regularly engaged in dispute resolution through mediation, arbitration, dispute resolution boards, referees, adjudication, and all other dispute resolution forums in matters involving the entire gamut of construction issues, including construction deficiencies, design errors, and project delay. As a result, we are intimately acquainted with the procedural rules and other legal instruments that govern these proceedings, including with respect to ICC, LCIA, ADRIC, and other institutional arbitrations governed under applicable rules (such as UNCITRAL, IBA, and otherwise).
Our firm is proud to have contributed to significant advancements in construction legislation across Canada over the years, including most prominently with respect to the modernization of the Construction Lien Act (now the Construction Act) and its implementation of prompt payment and statutory adjudication in Ontario, which was then adopted across several more provinces, as well as our involvement in the creation of the Federal Prompt Payment for Construction Work Act, which applies to federal construction projects.
As a result, we have unparalleled knowledge of these issues, and regularly apply it to our clients’ benefit.
We are regularly asked to write and teach on construction and arbitration topics in publications and institutions across several continents, ensuring that we have a deep grasp and up-to-date understanding of the most recent developments in construction and arbitration law across the world. We offer a depth of analytical thinking that is unmatched by other firms, across the entire gamut of construction, infrastructure, and arbitration issues.
For example, we are regular contributors in a number of key publications:
We have extensive experience serving the Canadian energy industries. Our lawyers have represented owners, contractors, engineers and procurement firms at all stages of projects and disputes, including risk management, loss mitigation and the prosecution and defence of claims.
We are called upon to draft and revise contracts for the public sector. By virtue of our construction industry expertise, we are also regularly tasked with reviewing and drafting new legislation.
We advise healthcare clients on project procurement, construction and corporate/financing matters; we represent consultants, contractors and subcontractors on major construction projects at hospitals and other healthcare organizations; and we regularly provide advice to hospitals on the defence of construction claims and the validity of claims submitted during or after project completion.
We act for manufacturing owners, supplies and contractors on construction-related projects across Canada.
We provide legal advice to mining company owners, contractors, consultants and engineers, procurement and construction (EPC) management firms. We also help clients navigate and resolve complex mining-related construction disputes.
We advise owners, contractors, subcontractors, consultants and suppliers in relation to large transportation projects in Canada. We have collectively been involved in resolving more transportation-related construction disputes than any other Canadian law firm.
We are active on dispute resolution boards that deal with tunnel-related issues. We manage the impact of notice provisions, limitations concerns and proof of damages, working with technical experts on changed geotechnical and hydrogeological conditions and proof of damages. We are also experts in defending construction consortiums involved with foundation and geotechnical problems in residential, commercial and offshore facility tunnelling projects.
We advise owners, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and consultants, and represent parties in disputes relating to large water and wastewater projects across Canada.
We represent developers, owners, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, sureties and suppliers in relation to industrial, commercial, residential and institutional projects across Canada.
We advise education clients on construction matters, including drafting and advising on the standard form construction and consulting contracts and preparing contractual manuscript forms.
We provide construction-related legal counsel to the insurance industry, assisting insurers in developing policy wording and acting as general counsel in a variety of coverage issues at all levels of the courts in Canada. We have defended a broad range of property and casualty claims for both the private and public insurance sector.
We have advised owners on suretyship and security requirements for projects with values in excess of $8 billion. We also defend claims and prosecute claims for sureties under indemnity agreements.
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