Below you will find details of some of the types of work undertaken by this team. For further details, please contact us.
Non-Contentious Projects
• acting for Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking on the £170m facility to Malmaison.
• acting for Northumbria University on a £70m redevelopment of the Manors site in Newcastle.
• acting for Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking on the funding for mixed use commercial/residential tower block developments in Liverpool and Birmingham (contract values £25 and £40 million respectively).
• acting for Centreland Limited and Hanro Limited on the redevelopment of a major city centre site (contract value £30 million).
• acting for the University of Durham on a major student accommodation development (value around £18 million).
• acting for Charles Church Developments Limited on a complex mixed use scheme involving a local authority registry building, residential units and commercial elements at Holliday Wharf, Birmingham (contract value around £40 million).
• advising Barclays Bank on a development finance package for a biofuels processing plant in Teesside (value around £14 million).
• advising Sanofi-Aventis in connection with a new dry pharmaceuticals packaging plant (contract value £20 million).
• advising Home Group, one of the country’s biggest registered social landlords, on national procurement strategy, particularly partnering.
• acting for North British Housing and its development arm, Blueroom, on the acquisition of post-completed developments in Coventry and Birmingham.
• acting for Reg Vardy Plc on a national basis on the procurement of car showroom facilities.
• advising Barclays Plc in relation to the funding of the construction of a number of schools and community facilities.
• advising the Co-operative Bank on funding several Local Improvement Finance Schemes (LIFTs) across the country.
Contentious Matters
• advising a joint venture in connection with a series of disputes in excess of £10m and ongoing further disputes in relation to a major PFI District General Hospital project.
• advising a major mechanical and electrical sub-contractor in relation to ongoing disputes with a main contractor concerning a major central government PFI Project.
• advising a multi-discipline consultancy in connection with a series of defects concerning the Welsh National Pool in Swansea.
• advising major utility company in its claim for damages arising from negligent design of reprocessing plant. Value in excess of £5 million.
• successfully advising a developer in connection with an negligence claim against a surveyor relating to a major retail park.
• advising a major sub-contractor in relation to a series of claims concerning a landmark building in Canary Wharf.
• successfully defending a contractor against a quantum meruit claim in excess of £500,000 elating to motorway bridge strengthening works brought by a sub-contractor.
• advising an offshore installations contractor in relation to a number of disputes relating to refurbishment and expansion of North Sea rigs.
• advising a major heavy engineering contractor in relation to a dispute concerning a project at BNFL in Sellafield with a value in excess of £9m.
• advising a major transport company in connection with claims relating to works to a large number of railway stations in the south of England.