Construction lawyers

David Avila

David Avila is a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He focuses on project development and finance, including construction, tax credit bridge and back leverage financings, Term Loan A, Term Loan B, asset acquisitions and dispositions, private placement offerings, tax credit transfer transactions, and other corporate transactions in the power and renewable energy, battery storage and natural gas sectors. David’s clients include both sponsors and lenders, including developers, private equity, investment banks and other institutional investors.

Paul Hastings LLP

David Blake

David Blake is a partner in Seyfarth’s Construction practice in the Washington, DC office. Based on his more than 25 years of experience, David creates and implements strategies that drive successful client outcomes during all phases of a construction project, including contract drafting, project administration and dispute resolution. Clients look to David to draft and negotiate effective construction, construction management, design-build, EPC, design, and equipment purchase agreements. During the course of a project, David assists his clients in resolving construction and design issues in a practical and creative manner. When controversies persist, David prosecutes and defends requests for equitable adjustment and claims for issues such as delay, labor inefficiency, and extra work. David has successfully settled numerous disputes through mediation. He is also an experienced litigator, representing his clients before state and federal courts, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, and the American Arbitration Association. David has represented his clients on a wide array of private and public construction projects - including foreign embassies, professional sports stadiums, commercial office and mixed-use buildings, high rise residential, courthouses, hospitals, schools, airports, marine ports, highways, refineries, hydro, solar and biomass power generation, industrial facilities, and waste water treatment plants. David holds an undergraduate degree in architecture, and he has been an LEED-accredited professional since 2006. As such, he offers his clients a rare background that is particularly valuable given the technically oriented nature of construction law.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

David Crockford

David is a Partner in our Real Estate Disputes team. David has more than a decade of experience in real estate disputes and previously created and managed a large specialist regional team. He provides clear strategic advice to his clients across the entire property sector and at all stages of transactions. He focuses on ensuring that as few disputes as possible arise for his clients but where they do, are litigated proactively and successfully. David deals with a wide variety of real estate disputes and has specialisms in right to light matters, issues concerning development of land including dealing with overage and portfolio asset management work and lease renewal proceedings, dilapidations, applications for consent, forfeiture and disputed rent reviews. He has a particular interest in working to resolve potential and actual litigious issues on development land and at business premises to facilitate construction and redevelopment. He also enjoys portfolio work for clients, where solutions need to be tailored not only to the property but to the client’s broader real estate needs. David has acted across all levels of the Court and Tribunal process. He also has considerable experience working on disputes where clients need solutions that require the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He has expertise in resolving disputes concerning land that is being used for the purposes of biodiversity net gain or nitrate mitigation, which include supporting those considering such schemes to avoid litigation pitfalls, enforcing breaches and resolving disputes using ADR. David is the Chair of Property Litigation Association on the South Coast. He also regularly facilitates and delivers training to clients and colleagues.

Hamlins LLP

David D Peden

David has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration of construction, insurance, surety and commercial issues. David frequently represents owners, lenders, general contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in claims; disputes; arbitration and litigation; contract documents; mediation services; commercial, industrial, offshore, multi-family, and surety trials and appeals of contractual disputes; supply contracts; deceptive trade practices; and breach of warranty. His industrial construction experience includes disputes related to pipelines on and offshore, storage facilities, vessel failures, turbines, jack up rigs, cogeneration plants, welding, delays, insurance claims, man power efficiency, and equipment failures. His commercial construction experience includes design and construction defects, extra work and acceleration claims, and multi-party case management and trials. David is a Fellow in the American College of Construction Lawyers.

Porter Hedges LLP

David Dowsett

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Duhe

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

David Evans

David Evans has been involved in energy and finance matters his entire career, including positions as Chevron's chief natural gas lawyer, Vice President and General Counsel of an independent power developer, and as a partner in two major law firms. His current practice primarily involves representing lenders to, investors in, and developers of energy and infrastructure projects. He also advises clients on energy regulatory matters in the United States, including the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Atomic Energy Act , and the Energy Policy Act.

Clifford Chance

David Firth

Experience David is head of the litigation division at Capsticks. He joined the firm in 1995 and works with clients across the firm’s key sectors, with a particular emphasis on construction dispute resolution and health and safety matters. Expertise David has supported clients undertaking fire safety remedial works both in seeking damages for contractors’ historic design and workmanship breaches and, in the case of registered providers, managing their relationships with leaseholders. He and his team routinely deal with payment disputes, extension of time requests, contested termination rights and related damages claims, representing employers, contractors and subcontractors. For health and safety, David is best known for supporting clients undergoing criminal investigation for a range of offences including corporate manslaughter. He advises on disaster response, reputation management, internal investigations, at all stages from interview under caution through to Crown Court prosecution. With clients facing enforcement action from the police, the HSE and the Care Quality Commission over many years, David is very familiar with their ways of working, what tactics work to minimise regulatory intervention and, crucially, those that do not. He has supported organisations and individuals through every aspect of the investigation process, up to and including interview under caution, and uses his expertise to help avert further enforcement action, or to minimise the reputational impact if a criminal prosecution is commenced.

Capsticks LLP

David Garzón

Partner and Director of the Public Law team

Pinilla González & Prieto Abogados

David Gilbert

Partner

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

David Gunn

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

David Gwillim

David is a construction lawyer and solicitor advocate of the Senior Courts, specialising in resolving disputes through arbitration, mediation, adjudication, expert determination, and complex litigation. He has expertise in risk management, dispute avoidance, and resolution for a broad range of clients involved in building and engineering projects worldwide. David also represents clients before the courts and professional bodies such as ARB and RIBA. David also advises on crisis and reputation management and his experience covers fatalities, construction collapses, and urgent court applications for injunctive relief.

Keystone Law

David Hall

Head of Burges Salmon’s Disputes, Planning & Construction Department. Over a 30 year career David has represented numerous major public and private institutions on a wide range of disputes, investigations and inquiries. Currently Lead Solicitor on Burges Salmon’s appointment to provide all legal services to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry chaired by Baroness Hallett. David is also playing a similar role in other confidential Public Inquiries to which Burges Salmon is appointed.

Burges Salmon LLP

David Haworth

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

David Johansson

DLA Piper Sweden

David Johnstone

David Johnstone heads the firm's Real Estate, Resort Development, and Private Client Groups. He is the clear industry leader in representing resort developers in all aspects of resort development, including acquisition, financing, regulatory approvals, development, master planning and sales programmes. He has extensive regulatory experience, including drafting applications to the Bahamas Investment Authority, drafting heads of agreement, and drafting and negotiating subdivision and utility agreements with Government. David has established himself as the go-to legal adviser in master-planning mixed-use resorts with varied residential and amenity components, including subdivisions, condominium, condohotel and timeshare components. He has structured complex condohotel programmes for homeowners’ associations, and advised on structuring golf club and marina club programmes for many of the county’s largest resorts. Additionally, David has established himself as an expert in representing high net worth private clients in real estate acquisitions and economic permanent residency matters. He has extensive experience in secured financing transactions, construction and mezzanine financing, securitisation and residential and commercial lease transactions.

Lennox Paton

David Jones

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Katanić

Associate

Draškovic Popovic & Partners

David Khaindrava

Senior Partner

BLB (Business Legal Bureau)

David Little

Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

David Miles

David has acted as a Privy Council agent since 1993. He has conducted many cases from most of the Privy Council jurisdictions. In his capacity as a Privy Council agent, David conducts a wide variety of cases including professional negligence, clinical negligence, personal injury, company and commercial, probate and construction.

Blake Morgan LLP

David Oliver

Consultant

Isadore Goldman

David Oram

Partner specialising in contentious and non-contentious construction.

Hill Dickinson LLP

David Orobio de Castro

David heads our real estate practice specialising in projects, project finance, real-estate and tenders. David’s experience includes PPP/PFI (DBFM(O)), property development, property finance, real estate and concession contracts, including concessions for public transport, water, energy and waste. In addition, David regularly advises on the European and national procurement regulations ("aanbestedingsrecht"). David is also a widely published author and lecturer on this subject. Please visit the Stibbe website for more details: https://www.stibbe.com/people/david-orobio-de-castro.

Stibbe