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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