Natasha Carew

About Natasha Carew

Big building and infrastructure projects sometimes end in a dispute, and those disputes sit at the heart of Natasha Carew's practice. Carew is a litigation partner at Gowling WLG in Toronto, acting for owners, contractors and subcontractors, design professionals, lenders, suppliers and joint venture partners on private and public work, P3s included. Those files grow out of everything from condo and campus builds to energy and mining sites, plus public works like hospitals and transit lines.

Construction isn't the whole story. The partner also takes on a wide spread of commercial fights, among them shareholder and partnership conflicts, oppression and derivative claims, and insolvency and restructuring matters, for clients as varied as multinationals, start-ups and individuals. Some disputes are argued in court or in arbitration, while others get settled through mediation and negotiation. Carew was called to the Ontario bar in 2012, a year after finishing a JD at the University of Windsor.

Teaching is a steady thread. Carew has been an adjunct professor at two law schools, covering negotiation at Osgoode Hall and legal remedies at Windsor, and speaks often to lawyers and industry groups about construction law, remedies, expert witnesses and legal writing. In a 2022 Lexpert piece on infrastructure arbitration, Carew explained that COVID-related claims can be hard to prove on the evidence, and that parties were weighing force majeure arguments over scarce materials and the price jumps tied to the war in Ukraine.

Away from paying clients, Carew keeps an active pro bono practice, representing individuals in employment and property disputes, and led a private refugee sponsorship project. Natasha has recently become a marathoner, loves being outside, and likes the challenge of learning to be at ease with discomfort.