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Douglas Oles Appointed as an Officer of the International Construction Projects Committee (ICP) of the International Bar Association

Tue Feb 4, 2020

Douglas Oles has been appointed as an officer of the International Construction Projects Committee (ICP) of the International Bar Association.  The International Bar Association (IBA) is the largest international association of construction lawyers, with 80,000 individual members spanning 170 countries. The IBA has expertise in providing assistance to the global legal community, and through its global membership it influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession throughout the world.

For 2020-21, Douglas will serve as the Vice Chair of the Project Execution Subcommittee.

Douglas Oles is recognized as a national leader in the practice of construction law and in various areas of public and private commercial contracts, with extensive experience in both litigation and transactional work. He has served as national chair of the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry, the largest association of construction industry lawyers, and he has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers and an Honourary Fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers.