Avocats en Construction

Jasper Kampherbeek

Partner

CMS

Jay Randhawa

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Lawyers and Consultants

Jean-Christophe Diserens

Attorney at Law, Partner About Jean-Christophe Diserens began his career as Deputy Attorney General for the Canton of Vaud. He then joined the law firm Baumgartner-Wellauer-Diserens-Lei Ravello as a partner. In 2010, he joined Villa Olivier as a partner, then Kellerhals Carrard Lausanne from 2013, as a partner.

Kellerhals Carrard

Jean-François Germain

Jean-François is a partner in the dispute resolution team.

Fieldfisher

Jean-François Germain

Jean-François is a partner in the dispute resolution team.

Fieldfisher

Jean-François Levraud

Jean-François Levraud is a partner in Gide's Real Estate team in Paris and has been the firm's managing partner since 2021. He is mainly involved in property transactions and assists his clients with construction and development operations. In recent years, Jean-François has worked with AccorInvest, Blackrock Investment, BNP Paribas, DWS GmbH, Pernod Ricard, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Seafrigo Investment, Union Investment Real Estate and Unibail-Rodamco. Jean-François joined Gide's Morocco office in 2013 to strengthen the real estate practice. He headed the Casablanca office until summer 2018, before returning to practise in Paris. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2003, he is a graduate of IEP of Bordeaux, ESCP Business School and the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris 5 Universities.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Jean-François Vandenberghe

Jean-François Vandenberghe heads the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Belgium and for the larger part of the EMEA region. He is based in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1994. He is also a member of the Environmental Law Practice Group and the Corporate Practice Group. Jean-François was also the managing partner of the Belgian offices from 2009 to 2016, and more recently ad-interim since end of January 2023 to end of March 2024. Jean-François advises national and international clients on real estate transactions and their environmental aspects.

Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

Jean-Luc Champy

Partner

White & Case LLP

Jean-Philippe Lorizon

Partner

Racine

Jean-Rodolphe Fiechter

lic. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law, Partner Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law About Jean-Rodolphe Fiechter is a multilingual (French/German/English/Italian) specialist construction and real estate lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in Switzerland and abroad (including Singapore and New York). He has a solid experience in cross-border construction and real estate advice and dispute resolution, acting as arbitrator or as mediator (RICS Accredited Mediator) and representing domestic and foreign clients (architects, engineers, developers, and facility managers) before Swiss courts, mediators, and arbitral tribunals (including FIDIC DAB and SIA 150). He has advised on a wide range of Swiss and international projects (incl. FIDIC), comprising pharmaceutical plants, hydropower plants, hotels and convention centers, airports and railway stations, industrial buildings, an opera house, and luxury chalets in the Swiss Alps. Jean-Rodolphe Fiechter is a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and at the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg, and a regular speaker on real estate and construction topics, and on legal aspects of Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Kellerhals Carrard

Jeffrey Appelbaum

For 40 years, Jeff has served the construction industry in the varying roles of trial and transactional attorney, project counsel, project management consultant, owner’s representative, mediator and partnering facilitator. Jeff has provided distinguished service to public and private owners, design professionals, construction managers and contractors on important projects throughout the United States and Canada. Jeff has served as project counsel or owner’s representative for more than 100 projects involving billions of dollars of construction, including in excess of 30 major league sports facilities and other community impact projects throughout North America. He has facilitated over 300 complex partnering sessions and conducted more than 500 complex construction mediations. Jeff also formed, and serves as managing director of, Project Management Consultants LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thompson Hine that provides ancillary construction project support services throughout Ohio and North America.

Thompson Hine LLP

Jeffrey Elkinson

Director

Conyers

Jeffrey Giese

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Jeffrey Grossman

Partner

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Jeffrey Tam

Denis Chang’s Chambers

Jeffrey Twentyman

Partner; Jeff undertakes a broad range of corporate and commercial work for both corporate and private equity clients, advising on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, mergers and public takeovers, flotations and equity capital markets and private equity investment. He is Head of our Private Equity group and Head of Sustainability.

Slaughter and May

Jelena Jovicic

Partner

Cvetkovic, Skoko & Jovicic

Jenia Dimitrova

Partner, Head of Real Estate and Construction

CMS

Jenifer Martindale

Jenifer is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Team as well as being a member of the Education Team. Jenifer acts for: businesses (from SMEs to large companies), individuals, landed estates, schools and charities. She provides her clients with expert advice and excellent client service. Jenifer believes it is important to build a strong rapport with her clients to understand their needs and objectives. Her advice and recommendations are tailored to meet those needs and objectives, highlighting the risks and cost benefit of each particular step and stage of dispute resolution. Dispute resolution Jenifer has a wide-ranging litigation practice with particular emphasis on commercial disputes but also with expertise in contested property matters. She acts for both claimants and defendants dealing with disputes from initial correspondence through to court proceedings both in the County Court and High Court. Jenifer has extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Jenifer has particular expertise in commercial contractual disputes including breach of contract, defective products, contract termination and debt recovery (including enforcement of judgments). She also has experience of acting in disputes concerning director/shareholder issues, LLP/partnership disputes, employment post-termination restrictive covenants, professional negligence, defamation, and construction contracts (including adjudication). In addition to her commercial litigation practice, Jenifer undertakes property litigation work specialising in disputes between property co-owners, rights of way/boundary disputes and town/village green applications. Education Jenifer provides advice and clarification on the operation of the Parent School Contract and other admission documents and has expertise in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and its applicability to the Parent School Contract. She regularly acts for schools on fees recovery matters including FILON disputes and is increasingly involved in advising on general education matters. She also has experience of dealing with parental complaints (often linked to fees debts). Jenifer regularly contributes to school publications with a particular focus on maximising fees recovery and avoiding bad debts.

Wilsons

Jenna Volkwyn

Jenna Volkwyn is an international construction and engineering solicitor with experience in complex disputes across various jurisdictions. Jenna specialises in the resolution and avoidance of disputes arising out of construction and engineering matters relating to renewable energy projects, large power plant projects, civil infrastructure projects and building projects. She has represented employers, contractors and consultants in Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. Jenna has experience with FIDIC, NEC, JCT and other bespoke construction contracts. Jenna is a dual qualified lawyer in South Africa and England and Wales.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Jennie Jones

Jennie is a Partner in our construction team. An experienced construction lawyer, she has a strong background in contentious construction with particular expertise in adjudication and litigation in claims relating to delay, extensions for time, loss and expense claims, defective works and design. A member of our manufacturing and supply chain, real estate and local authority teams, Jennie has a wealth of experience in acting for contractors, employers and consultant engineers on a large number of disputes, with particular expertise in resolving disputes through adjudication, arbitration, mediation and litigation. She has also been involved in a number of disputes concerning defective cladding and fire safety issues. As part of her role, she provides specialist training and workshops to industry professionals and regularly presents on recent updates in construction law to clients and specialists. Jennie founded and is the Chair of Building Links, a networking group for construction and property professionals that provides a platform to collaborate and share best practice.

Brabners LLP

Jennifer Davis

Jennifer Davis is a senior associate in the Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons' Doha office. She has more than six years of experience working on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious construction and projects matters, including advising clients on high-value complex projects in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the UK. Her experience spans a range of different sectors, including renewable and low-carbon energy (new nuclear, offshore and onshore wind, solar and battery storage, and biomass projects), highways and transportation, and commercial and real estate development. Jennifer has considerable experience in providing advice on major projects throughout the project lifecycle, including on project structure, procurement strategy, contract strategy, operation and maintenance, and dispute avoidance. She has particular experience in advising on complex EPC, O&M and supply agreements, as well as traditional construction and design-and-build procurements, including detailed knowledge of FIDIC, NEC3/4, JCT and IChemE suites of contracts. Jennifer also has a range of experience in acting for clients on contentious matters, including project counsel advice, international arbitration, mediation, UK High Court litigation and construction adjudication. Prior to joining Dentons, Jennifer spent three years working at an international firm in the UK as a Projects and Construction specialist, which included client secondments to a European offshore wind contractor, a global renewables developer and a major UK building contractor. She also spent two years working in-house at a global energy company, advising on the first-in-a-generation new nuclear project. Jennifer trained at a Tier 1 UK firm, qualifying into its Construction & Engineering team in 2018.

Dentons

Jennifer Paterson

Jennifer Paterson is a partner in the International Arbitration and Litigation and Dispute Resolution teams of the firm's Dubai office, based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Jennifer regularly advises and represents both regional and international clients in a wide range of commercial disputes. She has experience representing clients in local and international arbitration proceedings administered many of the major arbitration centers, including the ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, and ADCCAC, as well as ad hoc proceedings. Jennifer has full rights of audience before the DIFC Courts and the Courts of England and Wales. She also works closely with local counsel in respect of litigation pending before the UAE Courts. Jennifer has been instructed as trial counsel in a broad range of contested matters, including complex commercial contracts, oil and gas, construction, real estate, insurance and employment disputes. In addition to being able to navigate complex disputes in a variety of local and international forums, Jennifer counsels clients on a range of compliance issues and internal investigations. She is recognized by The Legal 500 EMEA in Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and International Litigation and by The Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist Middle East 2023 for Private Practice Arbitration.

K&L Gates

Jennifer Whitwam

Senior Associate.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP