Simon advises construction industry players both “upstream,” for example, concerning governance and integrity programs, and “downstream.” He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and has acted as both a pleader and an arbitrator.
Specializing in complex litigation, Simon has handled a large number of important cases, before both courts and arbitration tribunals. He has pleaded a number of landmark cases in the field of construction law in recent years.
Simon has published numerous articles and given many presentations in Canada, the United States and other countries in the Americas and Europe, on subjects related to the fields of litigation and construction, and he serves regularly as a trainer in workshops for younger lawyers on the art and techniques of trial advocacy.
- Procureur général du Québec c. Compagnie de chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique, which concerned a high-profile rail accident in Lac-Mégantic. Dismissal of the class action was confirmed on the merits by the Québec Court of Appeal in 2025, following an initial victory before the Superior Court of Québec in Ouellet c. Compagnie de chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique et al.;
- Pollués de Montréal-Trudeau c. Aéroports de Montréal, an environmental class action dismissed at the authorization stage by the trial judge, whose decision was confirmed by the Québec Court of Appeal;
- Benabu v. Google, also dismissed at the authorization stage in a decision confirmed on appeal.
