Construction
“Historically, many companies have sealed transactions based on the strength of their business relationships, rather than the strength of their contracts. The current market is less forgiving and has become too complex for that. Businesses need to get the details right – and locked in. If they don’t, they can be assured their competitors will.”
Peter Macnish, Special Counsel and Head of Construction
Services and Expertise
Cornwall Stodart won the Corporate
INTL Magazine 2010 Legal Award for Construction Law Firm of
the Year in Australia. Further details of the award are available
here.
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.