Our team works on significant and complex construction and engineering, infrastructure, and energy and waste projects nationally. Our clients benefit from having robust contracts in place, which helps them avoid costly and time consuming disputes.
Our experience ranges from advising on multi-million pound construction disputes to routine pre-contract risk reviews and, further, providing pre and post-completion support to PPP/PFIs, in particular in the waste and health sectors.
We have advised on a broad spectrum of innovative and complex projects. Our experience covers a range of sectors including energy and waste, residential property, health, education, recreation, defence, IT, roads, airports and other infrastructure. Our clients include a broad cross-section of major international sponsors, project companies, developers, leading contractors and consultants, waste and water companies and public bodies.
COVID-19 Legal Implications
Our Construction & Infrastructure Team welcomes any opportunity to support new or existing clients in relation to COVID-19 issues posed under building contracts and related construction documentation. The team's experience ranges from advising on multi-million pound construction disputes to routine pre-contract risk reviews, so they are very well placed to advise on immediate questions surrounding extensions of time, force majeure provisions and the like, together with more long-term issues such as future-proofing standard T&Cs for building projects. Visit the COVID-19 page.
We have expertise in advising on the construction aspects of developments in a range of sectors, including residential, commercial, health, education, retail and energy and experience in drafting and negotiating all of the major standard forms of contract (including JCT, NEC, IChemE, PPC and FIDIC)
Our team is widely experienced in adjudication, arbitration and litigation, including proceedings in the Technology and Construction Court and Court of Appeal and we pride ourselves on getting results for our clients.
The lawyers in our Energy & Waste team support funders, investors, operators and service providers in project development, regulatory and operational issues.
Find out moreThere is increasing pressure to deliver energy infrastructure quickly to meet the targets and benefits associated with renewable energy. Our pro-active team has assisted clients to deliver projects across a range of technologies and scale utilising a range of different funding mechanics and has the skills required to deliver a successful energy project from inception to completion and on-going...
find out moreWe have vast experience of advising on PPP and PFI projects for a varied client base including procuring authorities, sponsors, investors and lenders. Our established track record of advising on a variety of project structures in a range of sectors means that our clients can be confident of receiving commercially grounded and legally robust advice tailored to the complexities of their project.
We have advised on a number of flagship highways, rail and related infrastructure projects. We provide advice to clients who commission, procure, fund and deliver highways infrastructure projects. We support clients from initial consultation and project structuring, including advising on all aspects of procurement, to post completion contract management.
When robust legal terms are not enough - Site condition risk and the danger of commercial...
It is a situation all too familiar to those involved with the preparation of building contracts: the contractor's tender clarifications conflict squarely with the client's intended risk profile
Find out moreCourt considers issues of "Practical Completion"
Most construction professionals know of the concept of 'Practical Completion' and know it marks the end of the substantive works and the start of the defects liability period
Find out moreRestriction on contractual prohibitions on assignment of debts
The Business Contract Terms (Assignment of Receivables) Regulations 2018 (the "Regulations") have been introduced by Parliament with the stated objective of facilitating access to finance for businesses by allowing them to assign receivables (essentially, the right to payment) to a finance provider.
Find out moreHacking a pathway through a dense thicket - clarity from the Court of Appeal on smash and grabs
The Court of Appeal has now handed down its judgment on the appeal of S&T (UK) Limited v Grove Developments Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2448 dismissing the appeal and upholding the decision of Coulson J
Find out moreWe are proud members of the Hinkley C ‘Professional Services Group’ (PSG), a collection of professional advisers who have experience supporting Hinkley C contracts.
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Relevant Experience
Successfully acting for Riva Properties on a high profile case against world leading architects Foster + Partners for failure to design Heathrow Airport's first proposed five-star hotel within budget.
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- Top tier rankings in this year’s legal 500 for national law firm Ashfords
- The interface responsibility – when does a sub-contractor assume design liability for its components being “consistent” with a wider system? See the judgment in DBE Energy Limited v Biogas Products Limited [2020] EWHC 1232 (TCC)
