Gowling WLG

Partner Global Director, Nuclear Power Generation

Ahab Abdel-Aziz is a partner and global director of Nuclear Power Generation at Gowling WLG. He has been a leader in the global nuclear sector for more than 30 years.

Ahab has advised leading members of the Canadian and international nuclear energy sector and government agencies in policy and legislative development, nuclear project and program development and finance, licensing and compliance, and dispute resolution. He has also advised clients in the petroleum and petrochemicals sectors, mining and forestry, manufacturing, and project developers on regulatory approvals, environmental assessment, and risk management.

Ahab is a leading lawyer in the nuclear sector, and has served as lead negotiator in multi-billion dollar nuclear project contract negotiations, as well as lead litigation counsel in technically complex civil and regulatory disputes, including multi-billion dollar nuclear project arbitration.

He is recognized as one of Canada's top energy lawyers by Legal 500 Canada (Leading Lawyer), Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Report on Business/Lexpert Special Edition: Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers, Who's Who Legal: Canada, and Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Energy Lawyers.

Ahab is the chair of the board of directors of the Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCNI), former president and present member of the board of the Canadian Nuclear Law Organization (CNLO), and former member of the board of the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA). He was a founding executive member and director of the National Brownfield Association and a past member of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy's (NRTEE) National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy Task Force.

He was also the principal author of NRTEE's national policy recommendation, titled Facilitating a Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy for Canada, prepared at the request of the Prime Minister of Canada at the time. He is past vice chair of the Environmental Crimes and Enforcement Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA), as well as a member of the ABA's International Environmental Law Committee and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. He has previously served as an executive member of the Ontario Bar Association Environmental Law Section, and as a trustee of the Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers Association.

He is co-author and co-editor of the Canadian Brownfields Manual (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004-2013).