Reed Smith’s global international arbitration construction team has deep industry experience. Our construction and projects lawyers are recognized as leaders in Global Arbitration Review, Chambers, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, and Best Lawyers™.
The Legal 500 describes our team as “the best in technical construction knowledge,” adding that our practice is “well known for its construction arbitration ability and handling significant cases in that area.” Chambers comments on our “ability to cut through complex matters and provide clear, commercial advice” and Who’s Who Legal recognizes our “extremely good counsel deserving of recognition, able to identify important issues quickly – and how to deal with them.”
Our wide sector knowledge and understanding of the issues that can arise mean our lawyers know how the arbitration process can best be shaped to minimize risk and deliver the best outcome for clients.
Reed Smith’s experienced construction and projects arbitration lawyers have strong experience of working with clients across the world to innovate and adapt arbitral procedures to meet their needs on a project-by-project basis. This includes arbitrations conducted on an ad hoc basis or by reference to agreed rules administered by international or national arbitration institutions.
With an extensive network of global experts, our team is particularly adept at handling arbitrations across multiple jurisdictions and project locations, spanning the major classes of infrastructure (commercial, energy, industrial, oil and gas, process and transport), and subject to the rules of all major international arbitration institutions.
We guide clients through the entire dispute process – from initial advice on strategy, navigating pre-arbitral steps (such as referring the dispute to, and presenting the case before, dispute boards), and the submission of pleadings and evidence, to advocacy in final hearings and the resolution of any issues on the enforcement of or challenge to an award.
We handle major (and “mega”) projects that can lead to substantial multibillion-dollar disputes and be critical to a client’s business or longer-term sustainability. Our lawyers are adept at handling these complex, evidence-heavy, highly technical and challenging disputes, and have built strong working relationships with many leading technical consultants, industry experts and institutions.
Our lawyers are thought leaders in the construction industry, performing key roles within various industry associations and organizations, contributing to leading publications, and chairing and presenting at global conferences and lectures, for example, GAR Live Construction Disputes Paris and GAR Live Abu Dhabi, Istanbul and New Delhi. We bring our knowledge to clients and host a Masterclass Construction Series (held in Paris, Seoul and Tokyo) as well as providing bespoke training programs to contractor and owner trade associations.
