Construction

Services and Expertise

Our Construction group has experience working with owners, developers, financiers, head contractors, subcontractors, consultants and project managers. We have provided clients with legal services and advice that has helped them to successfully complete projects as diverse as:

• road surfaces for Melbourne's EastLink tollway
• the development of bulky goods centres for the Spotlight Group
• the supply of  construction services and communications equipment by Ericsson to Telstra's T3 network
• the construction of sports centres and dams
• a $200 million construction business acquisition involving dozens of sites and subsidiaries, and a web of complex leases, licenses and government reviews.

Our services include negotiating deals, documenting contracts, requests for and responses to tenders, resolving disputes, security of payments, litigation and arbitration.

Our Construction group goes further than helping to solve our clients' problems - it identifies creative and competitive advantages to assist our clients in achieving their objectives. Our knowledge of the construction industry enables us to steer clients to a balanced position. This pairs the commercial desire for the speedy commencement of projects with the detail that needs to be negotiated and documented to limit business risk to acceptable levels. We always keep in mind that, no matter how perfectly documented, if the deal is too late to take to market, it is of no value.

In line with this, we have accumulated down-to-earth knowledge of the characteristics that typify construction projects. Solving problems - not pointing fingers - is our key objective.

Our aim is for our clients to keep moving forward and to bring their projects to a successful and profitable conclusion.

Areas of Industry Expertise

Our expertise covers:

• finance and banking
• retail
• civil construction
• residential and commercial development
• manufacturing.