Senior Associate

Description:

Our specialist Projects, Development and Construction Team is a core element of the wider firm and provides a comprehensive range of construction law solutions across the wide spectrum of projects undertaken in the construction industry. Clients include public institutions, property owners and investors, developers, funders, contractors, specialist sub-contractors, suppliers and construction/design consultants and specialists.

At Penningtons Manches Cooper, we are involved with projects from the outset and work with clients to shape their procurement and contracting strategies. We negotiate and draft all types of construction, development and project documentation.

We help clients to prepare agreements that best reflect their interests and the appropriate sharing of risk. The work we undertake spans the full ambit of construction, development and infrastructure with a focus on regeneration schemes, accommodation sector projects, energy and renewables, healthcare, hotels and infrastructure. The contractual expertise we offer is based upon both ‘standard form’ contracts and bespoke arrangements, tailored to meet any project requirements. Although the JCT remains the most common form of contract we see, we also regularly advise on EPC and EPCM contracts, NEC forms and on multi-party and partnering working arrangements and Joint Ventures. .

Our team also has extensive experience of advising on risks in live schemes, including on giving payment advice, advising on delays, fire stopping issues and preventing the failure of construction projects. This often links to analysing a contract to inform a client of its rights and responsibilities and suggesting next steps, and can cover such things as payment advice, challenging extensions of time requests and (where necessary) issuing termination notices and advising on the consequences of termination and (more recently) issues around insolvency.