Experience

• All areas of dispute resolution (with an emphasis on construction related matters) including litigation, arbitration, references, expert determination and mediation
• Corporate, regulatory and compliance issues, including representation at ASIC investigations
• Advising on policy coverage issues
• Appointed as an Adjudicator under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (2005)

Significant reported cases

• Acting for a directors' and officers' (D&O) insurer defending a challenge to a denial of indemnity in relation to a $20 million claim on the basis of known circumstances and non-disclosure
• Acting for structural engineers in defending a $10 million claim relating to the structural failure of tanks at a sewage treatment plant
• Acting for architects defending various claims relating to the failure of roofing elements
• Acting for a lessee in relation to multiple defects in a $300 million public infrastructure development
• Acting for accountants in connection with tax minimization schemes
• Acting for geotechnical engineers in connection with a range of sub-surface problems affecting buildings, mines and other developments

Clients

• Claims managers
• Engineers
• Architects
• Project managers
• Various corporates