Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Construction & Engineering

Richard is a partner in the Construction & Engineering team.

Richard provides tailored construction advice to clients across a number of key areas including project risk management, dispute avoidance and the resolution of complex construction disputes. A leading construction lawyer, Richard regularly represents clients at arbitration, adjudication and in other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

Richard’s notable areas of expertise include:

Advising on major infrastructure projects; particularly in the building, power, civils/infrastructure and process engineering sectors. Advising on procurement strategies, risk management and dispute avoidance and management – acting for clients’ which include hotels, tramways, process and petrochem plants, social housing and universities, as well residential, utilities and retail sectors. Over his extensive career Richard has acted for Owners, Contractors, Funders and Construction and Engineering professionals across all fields.

Richard is a member of a number of professional organisations including:

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators The Society of Construction Law (“SCL”) The Technology and Construction Solicitors Association (“TeCSA”) The Chartered Institute Civil Engineering Surveyors (“ICES”) The Law Society of England & Wales, The Law Society of Scotland

Richard graduated from the University of Leeds in 1991 with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (Honours), he worked for a number of civil engineering companies before qualifying as a solicitor in October 1997 following his traineeship at Vaudreys.

Richard is married with a son and four gundogs

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