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Hayley Steel

Hayley is an experienced transactional construction lawyer and leads Foot Anstey’s national Non-Contentious Construction team. Hayley has extensive experience delivering a diverse portfolio of construction and engineering projects across Foot Anstey’s core sectors. She specialises in working with developers and housebuilders, with a particular focus on the later living and retirement sectors, as well as delivering major infrastructure, clean energy, and nuclear projects. She provides expert guidance to a variety of clients with differing stakeholder roles and risk profiles, on projects such as large energy and infrastructure developments, international data centres, commercial and mixed-use schemes, housing, and regeneration projects. Hayley is well-versed in both bespoke and standard form construction contracts, including the JCT, NEC and FIDIC forms. Hayley also has considerable co-counsel experience, providing specialist construction support to external legal teams on a number of high value, high profile, complex asset-based transactions. Hayley trained, qualified and spent over a decade at a leading international firm, based within the City of London, working on a breadth of domestic and international projects. Hayley then spent several years at a national UK firm, where, prior to joining Foot Anstey, she led the “responsive, pragmatic, and efficient” non-contentious construction team. · Foot Anstey

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Hayley Steel is an experienced transactional construction lawyer who leads Foot Anstey’s national Non-Contentious Construction team. She advises developers, housebuilders and other stakeholders on a diverse portfolio including later living and retirement, major infrastructure, clean energy, nuclear, data centres, commercial and mixed-use, and housing and regeneration projects, and is experienced with bespoke and standard form contracts (JCT, NEC, FIDIC) and co-counsel support on high-value asset-based transactions.

Practice areas

ConstructionEnergy & InfrastructureReal EstateProjects

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Expertise

Developers & HousebuildersLater Living & RetirementInfrastructureClean EnergyNuclearData CentresCommercial & Mixed-Use DevelopmentHousing & RegenerationContracting: JCT, NEC, FIDICCo-counsel / Transactional Construction Support