Construction Professionals

Our Construction Professionals Work

• Americas
• Asia Pacific
• Middle East
• UK & Europe

• Multi-million USD claim alleging negligent design

  Advice in relation to a USD 300 million plus claim against a global design and engineering company relating to the alleged negligent design of a hydro-electric facility in Panama (with claims in multiple jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States)

  Panama

  Claim against global engineering company

  Advice in relation to claims against a global engineering company arising out of alleged negligent design and construction of gas processing facilities in Trinidad

  Trinidad and Tobago

  Alleged negligent design and construction of power plant

  Advice in relation to claims against a global engineering company arising out of alleged negligent design and construction of power plant facilities in the United States

  United States

• Insuring the largest shareholder class action to go to trial in Australia

  Acted for insurers and their policyholder in one of the largest shareholder class actions to proceed to trial in Australia (involving a profit downgrade)

  Australia

  Negligence claims in relation to various projects

  Acting for an engineer defending negligence claims in relation to various projects, including the allegedly negligent design of tunnels, roads and bridges

  Australia

  Defense of structural engineers

  Defending structural engineers alleged to have failed to take account of hydrostatic pressure calculations in designing a landmark luxury harbour-side apartment complex

  Australia

  Federal Court of Australia proceedings

  Acting for the insurers of a large consulting engineering firm in relation to Federal Court of Australia proceedings which alleged they were responsible for the collapse of underground mine workings

  Australia

  Large claim for double insurance against contracts work insurer

  Acting for the industrial special risks insurer in a mining project in respect of a large claim for double insurance against the contracts work insurer

  Australia

  Coverage issues regarding failed waste treatment plant

  Advising on insurance coverage in relation to a failed waste treatment plant

  Hong Kong

  Drafting of single project insurance policies

  Drafting a number of the single project insurance policies currently in use in the Hong Kong and UK market

  Hong Kong

  CAR cover advice regarding a multi-million dollar claim

  Advising on CAR cover in relation to a multi-million dollar claim arising from a warehouse collapse at a major international airport

  Hong Kong

  Multi-million dollar claims regarding fire stopping in 78 houses

  Acting for a D&B contractor and its insurers in the defence of multi-million dollar claims relating to allegedly inadequate fire stopping in 78 houses, following an initial arson attack

  Hong Kong

  Subrogated recovery claim

  Acting for a D&B contractor and its insurers, in a significant subrogated recovery claim against a firm of architects following an English Planning Stop Notice being issued as a result of an entire social housing project being built in the wrong place

  Hong Kong
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• Design fault claims against consulting engineers

  Defending two UAE court claims (AED 18 million and 32 million) against a global firm of multidisciplinary consulting engineers for alleged design faults

  United Arab Emirates

  US class actions, US derivative actions and US proceedings

  Acting for D&O insurers in a number of US class actions, US derivative actions and US proceedings against PRC and Hong Kong based companies

  United Arab Emirates

  Drafting and advising on PI policies in the UAE

  Drafting and advising on direct and reinsurance PI policies for Architects and Engineers for use in the UAE to cover (inter alia) decennial liability

  United Arab Emirates

  Claim against global engineering company

  Advice in relation to claims against a global engineering company arising out of alleged negligent design and construction of a sewage and waste water processing facility in the Middle East

  United Arab Emirates

• USD 1 billion claim against global engineering company

  Advice in relation to a USD 1 billion claim against a global engineering company arising out of alleged negligent design and construction of an oil and gas processing facility in Russia

  Russian Federation

  Developing power generation engines

  Successfully defending a multi-million pound construction claim arising out of the development of power generation engines

  United Kingdom

  Resolving design claims regarding a civic centre

  Acting for one of the UK’s top engineering practices in the resolution of claims against it resulting from the design of a civic centre

  United Kingdom

  Acting in an adjudication between an employer and a contractor

  Acting for a leading architect’s practice (and its insurers) in relation to an adjudication between the employer and the contractor, which threatened to overspill into a claim against the insured

  United Kingdom

  Complex claim against structural steelwork engineers

  Defending structural steelwork engineers in respect of a multi-million pound, multi-party complex claim for alleged defective design and construction of structural steelwork connections in a major football stadium in London

  United Kingdom

  Successfully defending multi-million pound claim

  Successfully defending an engineering practice from a multi-million pound claim brought by Rolls-Royce arising out of the development of power generation engines deployed at sites worldwide

  United Kingdom

  Claims surrounding large-scale residential development

  Advice in relation to a GBP 25 million multi-party claims against design and build contractors relating to alleged defective design and construction (and breach of the Defective Premises Act) of over 125 apartments of a large-scale residential development in the United Kingdom

  United Kingdom

  Multi-million pound claim alleging defective design of NHS primary care treatment facility

  Defending architects and engineers in respect of a multi-million pound claim relating to alleged defective design of a NHS primary care treatment facility in the United Kingdom. Claim includes multiple allegations of negligence relating to architectural and design services, structural...

  United Kingdom