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Joanne Naylor

Principal Associate

Joanne provides practical, insightful advice to help complex construction and engineering projects succeed and to resolve disputes efficiently and effectively.

Joanne is a Principal Associate in our Construction & Engineering team. Her practice focuses on disputes and complex infrastructure projects.

Joanne is based in our Cambridge office but has also completed a secondment to our office in Doha, Qatar, advising on local and English law matters. She has also worked on matters governed by Rwandan, Slovak and French law. Joanne has experience advising on a range of dispute resolution mechanisms, as well as dispute avoidance, settlement and pre-action advice. Joanne's transactional experience includes advising on concession agreements, development agreements and framework arrangements, as well as the full suite of construction and security documentation.

Highlights of Joanne's experience include:

  • managing, on behalf of the Slovak Republic, an ICC arbitration defending the Slovak Ministry of Transport against a c.EUR 120m claim for delay and associated costs on a major PPP highways project
  • advising the Government of Rwanda on the Concession Agreement and EPC Contract for the new Bugesera International Airport
  • advising a range of clients on contractor insolvency-related issues, including protective steps, termination of contracts, completion of outstanding works, and subsequent claims in the insolvency and under relevant insurance contracts and performance security
  • advising a public sector employer on a series of adjudications for a £4m delay claim on the construction of a research facility and the related counterclaim for defective performance;
  • advising a university client on a £2.5m professional negligence claim regarding defective public procurement advice
  • drafting and negotiating the development agreement for a QAR 280m project to construct a new school in Qatar, in addition to the building contract, consultant appointments and lease to take effect after construction

https://globalarbitrationreview.com/construction/slovakia-ordered-pay-in-road-dispute

  • Read law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
  • Master's degree in European Trade and Commercial Law at Durham University
  • Solicitor Advocate
Joanne Naylor

Principal Associate

Joanne Naylor

Principal Associate

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