Construction and engineering disputes

Litigation and dispute resolution

“Clients report that "the team is going strong" at this construction practice.” Chambers and Partners UK 2011

“The team provides a good sense of commercial alignment.” Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2011

Construction, engineering and infrastructure projects can lead to potentially complex, costly and politically sensitive disputes, however carefully crafted the contracts. By their multi-jurisdictional nature, such disputes require a legal team with profound experience of the construction and infrastructure industries and specialist global resources to match. Our dispute resolution team across Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa and the Middle East, contains a number of construction specialists with experience of disputes with a wide range of governing laws and procedural seats.

Leading project companies and sponsors, utility companies, developers, contractors and sub-contractors, financiers, consultants and suppliers instruct us on disputes ranging from office blocks and hotels to complex civil structures and infrastructure projects such as roads and railways, high-tech process plants and power generation facilities. Here, our experience of disputes affecting conventional power plants, nuclear power plants and renewable energy projects is unparalleled.

We always conduct disputes with your commercial and strategic objectives at heart, starting with our advice on dispute avoidance and risk and reputational management. Whether your international dispute subsequently takes the form of international arbitration, corporate litigation, mediation or expert determination, you can rely on us for support at every stage of the process, including commercial settlement negotiations.