Full Profile
Gareth Noonan is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Manchester office. Gareth specialises in advising clients in relation to disputes under construction and engineering contracts and how best to resolve them. Gareth qualified in 2016 and has worked in construction and engineering teams at Weightmans and Shoosmiths before joining Clyde and Co in 2020.
The majority of Gareth’s work is acting for main contractors in disputes with their employers and/or sub-contractors in relation to construction or engineering projects. Gareth does have a background in working on the non-contentious side and has completed two in-house client secondments for a contractor and a consultant.
Gareth is familiar with all of the standard form contracts on both the contentious and non-contentious side. He is experienced in acting on disputes in all of the major forums as well as key experience in resolving disputes through alternative dispute resolution in mediation and expert determination.
Experience
- Advising German owned clients in a multi-party mediation. Our sub-contractor client had been successful in adjudication proceedings and was facing arbitration proceedings in relation to an allegedly defective warehouse roof it had designed and installed. Claims totaling c. £5m.
- Advising a facilities maintenance contractor in relation to a dispute with its employer regarding accounting rebates spanning several years and totaling several million pounds. Navigated claims to a successful mediation.
- Advising a design and build contractor (under a bespoke project agreement) in relation to a multi-site mechanical and electrical project. A multi faceted dispute with commercial and technical arguments involving expert determination.
- Completing a one year secondment for an international contractor and consultant. Acting as in-house counsel dealing with the review and negotiation of new contracts across its various divisions and international hubs.
- Advising a contractor in relation to alleged breaches of a Management contract (c. £500m) and pursuing associated downstream claims.
- Advising a large national hotel chain on its tall building portfolio in relation to fire safety and pursuing associated claims against contractors and designers.
