Howard Kennedy is highly experienced in complex construction claims. It has a good team with excellent leadership. Its replies are speedy and helpful and it has good commercial acumen.
CHAMBERS UK 2025
We help suppliers and purchasers pre-empt, manage, avoid, and resolve contentious legal issues.
When problems arise in construction projects, we help you to identify the key issues and achieve the best outcome. Our specialist team is well versed in mediation, adjudication, arbitration, and litigation procedures.
We help you to protect your interests, identify and interpret potential risks, and negotiate appropriate solutions. We have been delivering positive results for over 35 years across the built environment sector, particularly in commercial, mixed-use, and residential development, hotels, retail and leisure, energy, and infrastructure.
We work collaboratively with our clients and their advisers to address potential difficulties early on, agreeing the right negotiating position and course of action. We advise both respondents and claimants, which gives us a broad understanding of stakeholder perspectives.
Our clients include developers, contractors, subcontractors, insurers, lenders, consultants, and advisers.
Our advice covers alternative procurement strategies, contract negotiation and award, risk management, and claims handling. Our life-cycle approach covers the build period, guidance during the completion regime and final account stage, and bringing and defending construction disputes of any nature in any forum.
Resolving for commercial developers, ultimately by adjudication, disputes on scopes of work, payment, and ultimately termination of the building contract.
Advising a hotel company on resolving critical delay issues with the extension and refurbishment of a country hotel.
Advising a contractor of their entitlements to further money following a request for sectional completion of a central London hotel.
Acting for an energy, water and environment contractor on claims for compensation events under an NEC framework agreement on work in SW London.
Advising an ultra-high-net-worth individual on claims for defective works and professional negligence on a home refurbished for smart building and sustainability.
Our Team
Working closely with you, we'll find the best way to get you quickly and easily from where you are to where you want to be.
