Contracts aren’t just something you draw up at the start of a project and tuck away in a drawer - you have to actively manage them if you want to ensure your interests are protected.
We deliver an end-to-end construction and engineering service to some of the world’s biggest companies. Yes, we can help you with contracts and procurement and litigation if necessary. But it’s the bit in between those two potential stages of a project lifecycle where our experience really sets us apart.
Having spent years working on the world’s biggest construction and engineering projects, we understand the realities of delivering globally significant mega-projects. As such, we can help you manage relationships with your supply chain via innovative “alliancing” models. We can also often neutralize a dispute without the need for formal litigation.
Most of the time big problems arise not because the contract has failed, but because the project team did not fully understand how to put the contract into practice. You have to have people in the field who understand how a contract is operationalized in reality. We can provide training with your project teams and hold monthly meetings to help them – and your project - stay on track and ensure successful completion.
Our Contracts and Procurement capability in Ireland
Our team is experienced in construction, development and infrastructure law and advises and acts for a wide range of clients. Whether you are a developer, institutional or private investor, funder, and bank, contractor, operator, utilities company or and state entity, we can help you with projects and transactions in real estate development and investment. We can also help you with strategic mid-stream construction projects with respect to project restructurings and matters such as variations and contractual claims.
Our lawyers are experienced in all aspect of Irish Contracts and Procurement Law. Our recent experience includes advising:
- acted for a well-known Plc Property Developer in relation to a project restructuring (mid-stream construction) in respect of a forward funding development structure where we guided the developer through the step-in and project takeover process and negotiated with the developer manager, contractor and project consultants to enable the step-in event
- a leading Irish real estate investor, developer and asset manager in relation to a joint venture acquisition of a land bank for circa €200 million and advised on the development management agreements and project interface agreements with respect to the joint venture structure regarding the development of residential, commercial and site infrastructure of the scheme on the land bank
- Irish residential house builder PLC in relation to the development project of a number of housing and apartment schemes, and more recently acted for the developer in relation to the forward sale of a multi-block PRS scheme to an international fund for circa €180 million
- an international fund in respect of a forward purchase project of circa €140 million in respect of multiple residential developments (mid-stream construction and pre-construction) from a leading property developer
- on ongoing advice to both public and private sector clients in relation to ongoing projects and issues regarding insolvency, which arise, supply chain issues and contractual claims for time and money