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"Astounding breadth and depth” make it “great value for money,” and clients appreciate the “formidable combination” of technical expertise and industry experience that comes into play thanks to the numerous solicitors with quantity surveying backgrounds. Quality is a word regularly employed to describe this construction and engineering outfit."

"Group head Simon Lewis sets his “leading-edge advice against a background of commercial pragmatism,” and clients rest easy in the knowledge that “he really knows what he’s doing."

Chambers UK 2008

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.