Douglas Younger

Practice Areas

With domestic and international experience, working both in-house and as an external advisor, Douglas has advised on infrastructure matters from all perspectives. He prides himself on offering top flight service, sound advice and superior drafting and negotiation skills. Douglas has advised on P3 projects since their inception in Canada, and has since advised on some of the largest transactions in the country. Douglas is a recognized leader in P3s and infrastructure project finance.

Douglas is Chair of Aird & Berlis LLP's Infrastructure Group. He advises governments, equity sponsors, funders and subcontractors on a wide variety of civil, transportation and accommodation P3 projects, including roads, hospitals, waste and wastewater facilities, schools and universities, mass transit and social housing.

Douglas has extensive experience in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of international and domestic project and structured financings and has acted as lead counsel on many major Canadian and international P3 and project finance transactions. His experience as an advisor to governments and private sector participants in P3 transactions, both domestically and internationally, has given him significant insight into the issues confronting participants in the Canadian and international P3 markets.

From 1998 to 2001, Douglas was Vice-President and European Legal Counsel to an international financial institution, advising investment bankers on legal issues pertaining to PFI transactions in the United Kingdom and structured and project finance transactions in Western Europe.

Learn more about Douglas here: https://www.airdberlis.com/people/bio/doug-j-s-younger

Professional Memberships

The Law Society of Ontario

The Law Society of England and Wales

Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships

International Project Finance Association

Construction Lawyers Society of America (Fellow)

American Bar Association