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John O’Kane

John is a Partner and leads the Property and Projects team at Hall & Wilcox. John has 20 years' experience in both front and back end construction and development law. John advises in relation to complex delay, disruption and variation claims and a variety of defects, bank guarantee recovery, liquidated damages, contract-based and trade practices claims. John is experienced in general commercial property litigation. He also advises in relation to development and joint venture arrangements and the most suited delivery mechanism for construction and infrastructure projects. · Hall & Wilcox

AustraliaConstruction, Real Estate

About

John O’Kane is a partner at Hall & Wilcox who leads the Property and Projects team and has 20 years' experience in front- and back-end construction and development law. He advises on complex delay, disruption and variation claims, defects and bank guarantee recovery, liquidated damages, contract-based and trade practices claims, commercial property litigation, and development and joint venture arrangements for construction and infrastructure projects.

Practice areas

ConstructionReal EstateLitigationInfrastructureProjects

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Expertise

Delay, disruption and variation claimsDefects and remediationBank guarantee recoveryLiquidated damagesContract-based and trade practices claimsCommercial property litigationDevelopment and joint venture arrangementsConstruction and infrastructure delivery mechanisms

Education

  • LLB (Hons)
  • DipHSci