Colin is a Partner in HWLE’s Construction and Infrastructure group with experience that encompasses procurement strategy, contract drafting and negotiation, project management, litigation and other forms of dispute resolution.
Colin prepares and advises on all forms of construction and infrastructure procurement models and documentation, including ECI, design and construct and O&M agreements, standing offer models, alliance agreements, construction management agreements, development agreements, supply agreements, consultant agreements and subcontracts, along with associated tender and project documentation.
Colin has acted in complex multi-party disputes to achieve clients’ legal and commercial objectives, including for principals, contractors, financiers, subcontractors, and consultants and insurers, including prosecuting and defending complex security of payment claims and in litigation arising from adjudications.
He holds a Masters of Construction Law from the University of Melbourne.
Expertise
Experience
- Cross River Rail Acting for the head contractor joint venture on a variety of claims arising from this transformational project.
- Brisbane Airport Second Runway Preparing the head contractor’s contract administration suite.
- LEDA Group Holdings Acting for LEDA Group across a range of industrial and retail projects, including completion of Currumbin Service Centre (with storage centre and retail) following contractor insolvency.
- Water Industry Acting for numerous contractors in the water treatment and pipelining industry with tender reviews, contract suites, project management and dispute resolution, including the use of adjudication and expert determination, and defending adjudications in subsequent litigation.
- Legacy Way Tunnel Acting for a major European subcontractor for the design of tunnel safety systems through adjudication against the head contractor, and defending cross claims and a call on the subcontractor’s security.
- Waste Management Drafting contract suites and dispute resolution for both principals and head contractors for hard waste and de-contamination projects, including use of ECI, D&C, EPCM, O&M models, along with collaboration models for sharing the long term benefits of newly developed treatment technologies.
- Residential Development Acting for private and listed developers on high rise, low rise and land subdivision projects, including contract documentation, project management, infrastructure works, development agreements, public infrastructure, and disputes arising from developments and contractor insolvency.
- Basement collapse Acting for the developer of a residential project which experienced a high profile basement collapse during construction, damaging surrounding properties, using facilitated negotiation to enable the completion of the project.
- Project restructuring Acting for numerous developers in realigning distressed projects, including strategies to complete projects following contractor insolvency and resolving subcontractor charges and proceedings related to those charges.
