Our construction team acts for conglomerates, companies, investors, employers, contractors, consultants and suppliers providing commercial advice to avoid and effectively manage disputes.
Having advised on major projects across the globe for a variety of private and public sector clients, we handle a full range of contentious and non-contentious construction, engineering and energy related matters, from project inception; advice on procurement methods; the negotiation and implementation of industry standard form and bespoke contracts, through to high-value multi-party litigation, arbitration and adjudication.
Our construction specialists assist clients throughout the lifecycle of a project, from advising on transactional documents, through to dispute resolution and enforcement processes. This enables our team to support clients in managing investment risk and delivering project value.
Disputes are sometimes unavoidable, and our team are experienced in progressing claims in all divisions of the English High Court, including the Technology and Construction Court, as well as arbitral proceedings (as both counsel and advocate) conducted under a variety of institutional rules such as the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC and LMAA Rules, as well as UNCITRAL (ad hoc) and under the Arbitration Act 1996.
In order to best advise clients, we regularly work alongside technical, delay and quantum experts to support commercial and dispute resolution strategy.
If you would like to find out more about how we can help you and your business, please contact our team.
Recent Experience
- Represented a Korean EPC contractor in an ICC arbitration (seated in Singapore) against a subcontractor arising out of a USD3.5bn crude flexibility project in the UAE. The claims related to significant additional costs incurred by the EPC contractor to either perform, or engage others to perform, part of the subcontractor’s scope of works.
- Acted as counsel in an LCIA arbitration concerning a piping subcontract package on a diesel fuel plant in the Caribbean. The proceedings encompassed defending the main EPC contractor against claims for extensions of time and additional cost.
- Represented the Bulgarian subsidiary of a global energy company in a USD750m+ UNCITRAL arbitration (seated in London) regarding the failure to properly design and build a lignite-fired power plant.
- Acted for a leading UK developer in professional negligence claims against various project consultants.
- Represented an Italian subcontractor in an ICC arbitration deriving from construction works completed in Qatar in relation to a transport project.
- Represented a European construction company in ICC arbitration in relation to a joint-venture dispute with a Qatari entity following the award of four major construction contracts.
- Acted for a Turkish aluminium and glass contractor in an ICC arbitration in a termination dispute relating to the supply of glazing material as part of a project located in the Middle East.
- Advised on multiple matters relating to the enforcement of adjudication awards in the Technology and Construction Court, acting for both claimant and respondent parties.
