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Construction: non-contentious

Mishcon de Reya LLP

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Mishcon de Reya LLP takes on complex construction and engineering projects in the UK, spanning various asset classes including major offices, large-scale residential projects and alternative asset classes. The practice is co-led by Simon Hunter, a specialist in the hotel, student accommodation, and distribution sectors, and Marc Hanson. Hanson and Adriano Amorese, both of whom joined from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in 2022, jointly bring expertise in procurement routes for complex construction projects and the drafting and negotiation of construction documentation. Managing associate Charlotte Braine adds her vast experience in representing developers, funders, purchasers, tenants, and investors across a wide array of construction documentation.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team is very commercial and understood the brief well. Their response time was excellent and they resolved issues quickly and creatively.’

  • ‘Adriano Amorese is very bright and experienced; gives total reassurance that matters in hand have been considered and addressed.'

  • 'Charlotte Braine is an excellent technical lawyer and has quick response times. Gets the right balance between resolving issues with the other party on their own initiative and returning to the client for instructions.’

  • 'The team is notable for its speed of responses and ability to think quickly and advise on courses of action prior to then getting the full, written justification for what has been discussed.'

  • 'Willing to discuss matters rather than dictate, and ready to explain the nuances between certain aspects.'

  • 'A real understanding of their client and what's important to them, resulting in pragmatic and commercial advice.'

Key clients

  • Brookfield Properties
  • Juramia Limited
  • Lodha
  • Colt Data Centre Services
  • Crosstree Real Estate Partners LLP
  • Bloomberg
  • Get Living
  • Dominus
  • UBS
  • Starwood Capital Group
  • Watkin Jones
  • Sky Studios Limited and Comcast Corporation
  • Delancey
  • Greystar
  • Student Roost
  • AEW
  • The Church Commissioners for England
  • PGIM
  • Schroders

Work highlights

  • Advising Brookfield Properties on all construction aspects of its development of 1 Leadenhall.
  • Acting for Juramia Limited in connection with their £500m redevelopment of Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London.
  • Advising Colt Data Centre Services on procurement strategy and construction documentation in connection with its London 4 campus (a 50MW data centre campus in Hayes, West London).

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

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Marc Hanson

Marc Hanson

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Marc Hanson is a Partner in the Construction Group and Co-Head of Non-Contentious Construction. He is a leading non-contentious lawyer with over 30 years’ experience covering domestic and international projects for a diverse range of clients including property developers, institutions, public authorities, funders and contractors. He specialises in procurement routes for complex construction projects and drafting and negotiating all forms of construction documentation.

Leading individuals

Adriano Amorese

Adriano Amorese

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Adriano Amorese is a Partner in the Construction Group, within the firm's Real Estate department. A non-contentious construction lawyer with over 15 years' experience working on a broad range of domestic and international projects, Adriano specialises in advising on procurement routes for construction and engineering projects and in drafting and negotiating all forms of legal construction documentation, including construction and engineering contracts (both bespoke contracts and contracts based on industry standard forms, including JCT, NEC and FIDIC), consultancy agreements, bonds and guarantees. Adriano also has extensive experience advising on the construction aspects of project agreements such as development agreements, funding agreements, agreements for lease and asset protection agreements and their inter-relationship with legal construction documentation.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Marc Hanson, Simon Hunter

Other key lawyers

Adriano Amorese, Justine Ayto, Phoebe McLarty, Charlotte Braine

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