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Projects, Infrastructure & Construction

All business ventures and activities carry risk

None more so than in the fields of major projects, infrastructure and construction.

Whether you are funding, supplying, designing and constructing, servicing or otherwise operating in the built environment, or in infrastructure and the connectivity of things, the change and innovation you’re seeing in terms of modern methods of construction, the digital economy, integrated procurement and delivery partnerships, globalisation of supply chains, new funding structures and alternative forms of dispute resolution are just some of the areas that you will need to understand and navigate to manage your risk and reward.

You want to feel confident that you have fully understood those risks and have allocated responsibility fairly and appropriately, so that risks can be managed successfully as one successful team, for everyone’s shared success – for your clients, customers, employees, supply chain and your other stakeholders.

To assess risk and navigate a path through risk to success, whatever that looks like for you, you need trusted legal advisors who know you inside and out, so that you participate in your chosen market as one successful team.

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Why choose Foot Anstey

Our aim is simple.  We want to work with you as an extension of your team, to truly get to know your business and offer advice that works for you.

We understand the law, but we won’t bore you with trite commentary, or over-technical legal analysis.  When we speak to you, advise you and make suggestions, it is your ambitions and success we think about.  Always.

Managing Risk & Resolving disputes

We are specialists in assessing risk and advising you, using clear language to describe to you what that risk looks like, whether it appears fair and how it compares with risks taken by others in your chosen market or sector, as well as how you might manage that risk. We can also offer a view on reward and how that might be better attained and shared with your clients, customers and stakeholders. We offer all the usual legal routes to assessing, managing and mitigating risk and protecting your business, such as negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.

Financial, Commercial & Contractual

We understand complex funding, cross-collateralised security structures and project finance and can provide you with strategic, commercially-astute advice on contracting structures, finance and procurement methodology. We will provide support and advice on all commercial agreements that might sit around your projects. We can assist you with frameworks, services contracts, supply of goods, IT, project finance and payment security, confidentiality agreements and other commercial arrangements. For your construction and engineering projects, we are experts in the use of JCT, NEC, FIDIC, IChemE standard forms of contract.

Financial, Commercial & Contractual

We offer support, insight and strategic advice. Our legal experts work across multiple industry sectors, including energy (conventional and renewable), infrastructure, advanced manufacturing and technology, leisure, retail, education and real estate. We understand that things can go wrong, often quite unexpectedly, meaning you might need specialists on your team who are responsive and, above all, who you can trust. If they do go wrong, we will support you and deal with risks as they arise, or when you might have a serious and significant disagreement with others. We work with you to craft strategies that avoid disputes and protect your business, over both the immediate and longer term.

Our People

Our team’s substantial expertise is extremely wide-ranging.  We can support you on your projects from cradle to grave. Some of our lawyers are also trained engineers and surveyors, so we have additional senior management and technical experience outside of the legal sector and a deep operational understanding of the issues you might face.

Having  worked on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects, as well as major international projects, our team are recognised as experts in their subject area – we speak at conferences on legal issues affecting those involved on major projects, as well as at events organised by other construction industry professional bodies, such as the Society of Construction Law, Constructing Excellence, TECBAR and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.  We are plugged into leading industry bodies and organisations who are at the very forefront of innovation and change in the UK’s infrastructure sector.

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