Contractual and Commercial Services

We provide high quality, no-nonsense, professional contractual and commercial advice together with dispute avoidance and dispute resolution services across the construction, engineering and petrochemical industries, in the UK, off-shore and overseas.

A RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Our services range from pre-contract health checks to settlement of the final account and cover all points between. We design our services to suit the client and any given situation;
whether in a regular monitoring role or in response to a particular situation, we are able to advise, act and perform at short notice, leading from the front or slotting in to support your existing team.

Our services

CLAIM STRATEGY, PREPARATION, ANALYSIS AND DEFENCE

We provide all the strategic advice you need in respect of contractual claims. We have an excellent reputation for developing high-quality, fully particularised claim and/or claim rebuttal submissions detailing contractual argument, quantum and supporting evidence, identification of the causes of delay and/or disruption and forensic analyses of the effects of those causative events, together with advice and critical evaluation in respect of claims received.

PLANNING AND FORENSIC DELAY ANALYSIS

Practical knowledge and experience of construction and engineering processes and programming logic underpin our planning and delay service. We adopt the most appropriate techniques and methodology to interrogate/ demonstrate criticality for the unique circumstances of the project and the latest case-law in respect of concurrency. Using a range of planning software packages, we aim to present any complex claim as clearly and simply as possible.

DISPUTE AVOIDANCE, MANAGEMENT AND RESOLUTION SERVICES

Avoidance is always preferable to dispute resolution and our early involvement can significantly reduce dispute incidence and cost. But where disputes arise, our adjudication and mediation specialists provide clear, no-nonsense contractual, technical, commercial and strategic advice, having regard to the latest adjudication case-law developments and reacting quickly to the fast-track demands of the process to provide the complete support and/or representation that you need.

ARBITRATION AND LITIGATION SUPPORT AND EXPERT WITNESS

Working closely with legal teams in arbitration/ litigation, we design our service to meet your specific requirements. We can manage the process, be the interface with your legal advisors, provide technical support and produce comprehensive expert reports in matters of delay or quantum. Our respected and experienced Expert Witnesses have presented evidence under cross-examination in tribunals and the Technology and Construction Court.

INSOLVENCY, SURETY AND INSURANCE

Our experience in professional indemnity and contractor all risks claims, surety and bonds, balancing accounts and insolvency realisation will ensure optimum and efficient recovery.

COST AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Efficient cost and project management is founded on excellent communication and organisation; utilising professional, technical and inter-personal skills forged in wide-ranging practical experience. We have those skills and that experience in abundance.

SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS

We have specialist consultants able to apply their extensive experience of the most complex commercial issues in insurance, surety, due diligence and project commercial health and reality scrutiny and reporting.

PROFESSIONAL ADVICE AND SUPPORT

Every construction and engineering project is unique; the design, the conditions, location, timescale, technology, the parties, costs, the terms, the supply chain. We deal with the problems any combination of these factors create and have the expertise to assist.