With one of the broadest and deepest benches of construction and engineering lawyers in the world, our Global Construction & Infrastructure Disputes practice helps owners, developers, contractors, consultants, and financiers navigate complex, high-stakes disputes involving major projects worldwide. During delivery, we help position clients to avoid disputes and, when disputes are unavoidable, we help resolve them in courts, international tribunals, and in-project dispute resolution boards.

Our work centers on complex, multiparty and multijurisdictional disputes arising from megaprojects, including hyperscale data centers, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, critical transportation and water management infrastructure, and advanced biomedical facilities. We also handle disputes across the energy value chain – upstream, midstream, and downstream – including refineries, petrochemical facilities, gas plants, LNG, GTL, pipelines, offshore production facilities, power plants, and related infrastructure. Our experience in large-scale project delivery translates across industries, including technology infrastructure, civil infrastructure, and energy transition and renewable projects (from decommissioning work to disputes tied to large solar and wind developments).

We bring a technical understanding of how projects are bid, contracted, managed, and executed, informed by our lawyers’ experience in engineering, construction management, scheduling and delay analysis, and construction cost accounting. That technical grounding helps us analyze critical path issues, labor and productivity impacts, extension-of-time requests, scope changes, and resulting cost and schedule consequences.

We help our clients navigate disputes in multiple scenarios:

• Dispute avoidance and project delivery support: As project counsel, we advise during construction to identify issues early, manage risk, and position clients to resolve problems before they escalate. We also provide in-project audit capabilities–leveraging digital tools and our extensive experience–to diagnose and address emerging disputes before they jeopardize delivery.
• Formal dispute resolution: We handle matters with millions to multi-billions of dollars in dispute in state and federal courts, domestic and international arbitration, and in-project dispute resolution boards, including proceedings under the ICC, LCIA, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, and ICSID, and under a variety of governing laws. We have a deep bench of trial and international arbitration lawyers with extensive experience trying construction cases to verdict and final award.
• Taking over clients’ most challenging disputes: Our clients often bring us in when their disputes are at their thorniest stages, due to our extensive track record successfully handling megaproject disputes and our deep technical knowledge.

We do this for a wide variety of types of claims:

• Delays, disruption, productivity impacts, and cost overruns
• Engineering and design defects
• Change orders; quantum/reconciliation (audit) disputes
• Noncompliance with specifications, warranties, and performance guarantees
• Casualty events and industrial accidents; HSE issues
• Regulatory and compliance matters
• Termination and termination-avoidance
• Calls on project securities (including letters of credit, bonds, and performance bonds)
• State interference and expropriation issues