David Neuberger read chemistry at Oxford, and after spending three years as an investment banker, he was called to the Bar in 1975. He practised largely in property law, and in 1987 became a Queen’s Counsel. In 1996, he was appointed a High Court Judge, sitting in the Chancery Division, and was Supervisory Chancery Judge for Midland, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits from 2001. In 2004, he was promoted to the Court of Appeal, and appointed Judge in charge of IT and modernisation. In 2007 he became a Law Lord and was made a Peer. He was appointed Master of the Rolls in 2009. In 2012, he became the President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, a position from which he retired in September 2017.

Since 2010, Lord Neuberger has been a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal; in January 2018, he became a Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. Lord Neuberger practises as an arbitrator from One Essex Court in the Temple.

Lord Neuberger is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, and an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He chairs the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and is a trustee of Mental Health Research UK and of Prisoners Abroad, and Patron of Sapere. In 2006-7, he chaired an investigation for the Bar Council into widening access to the barristers profession.

Jonathan leads our Construction & Engineering Disputes Group in the UK and is based in London.

He is a senior construction litigator specialising in large, high value and technically complex construction and infrastructure disputes (court proceedings, adjudication and arbitration).

His sector strengths include office, retail, logistics, renewables including CHP plants, biomass and offshore wind and has particular expertise in complex delay claims.

Jonathan has a niche for conducting (and where necessary driving) ADR in high value, multi-party disputes. He has been instrumental in settling apparently intractable disputes by proposing innovative commercial solutions involving complex settlement structures.

Jonathan is dual-qualified having previously worked with Balfour Beatty as a chartered Q.S.

Jonathan is recognised in the legal directories and has been described as “an outstanding litigator” in Legal 500.

Jenny Fletcher’s legal practice has involved construction industry issues exclusively for more than 30 years. She has successfully resolved complex construction disputes for clients throughout the country and internationally, representing construction managers, developers, general contractors, owners, municipalities and specialty contractors. Jenny has served as lead counsel in many jury and bench trials, arbitrations, appellate arguments, court appearances and mediations.

Jenny is the Immediate Past President of the American College of Construction Lawyers and serves on its Executive Board. She is listed as a star individual by Chambers USA and has been recognized as a top construction lawyer and litigator by Benchmark Litigation, the Best Lawyers In America, Legal 500 United States, and others. She is a fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association Construction Industry Mega Case Panel. She serves as a Master and member of the Executive Committee of the Lumpkin Inn of Court and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. At Sutherland, Jenny has served as a member of the executive committee, as co-leader of the Litigation Practice Group, and as leader of the Construction Industry Practice Group.

Jo is a Partner in the Construction and Engineering group and a member of our renewable and clean energy team. She qualified as a solicitor after reading a chemical engineering degree and specializes in applying a process of early risk analysis (which allows commercial and legal risks to be identified and managed in the early stages of a project).

She specialises in drafting and negotiating both standard form and bespoke building contracts, enabling works contracts, framework agreements, security documentation, consultants’ appointments and collateral warranties and works for clients in both the public and private sector

Rob is a partner in our construction and engineering group with extensive experience across both contentious and non-contentious elements of construction and engineering projects. Rob advises clients on their procurement strategies and is familiar with all standard forms of contract including JCT, NEC, FIDIC, MF/1, ICE and IChemE. Rob also provides strategic advice to clients during projects and in the resolution of disputes and has acted on a number of major disputes both in the UK and Europe in a variety of different dispute forums.

Rob has advised on a wide variety of projects ranging from commercial buildings to major process plant and infrastructure projects. Rob has particular experience in energy, infrastructure and major redevelopment projects.

Jessica is a partner in our construction and engineering group in London.

She specialises in all forms of construction, engineering and operation disputes arising in the built environment, resources and infrastructure sectors and has experience of all forms of dispute resolution including adjudication, litigation, arbitration, expert determination and mediation.

She has particular experience in complex PFI/PPP disputes across multiple sectors (waste, health, education, accommodation, transport and defence) acting for public sector clients, sponsors, equity investors, debt financiers, construction contractors and operators.

Jessica is recognised as a Next Generation Lawyer in Legal 500 2017 and 2018 legal directory.

James is a partner in our construction and engineering practice, specialising in dispute resolution. He leads Eversheds construction international arbitration practice.

He has experience advising public bodies, governments and international corporations in over 20 jurisdictions on EPC (or EPC variant) projects, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sector. He assists clients during the execution phase of major projects with strategic advice, project team training, contractual interpretation issues and dispute avoidance. He also acts for clients in alternative dispute resolution procedures, complex high value litigation and international arbitration.

James is a committee member of the Adjudication Society and a visiting senior lecturer at Kings College London University on the Construction Law & Dispute Resolution MSc. James is ranked as a leading individual for construction international arbitration in Chambers & Partners 2017 and 2018 legal directory. He is described therein as “exceptionally gifted and talented” and as someone “very thoughtful who likes to know all the detail to enable him to see the big picture.” James is author of the leading text “A Practical Guide to Construction Adjudication”, published by Wiley Blackwell in December 2015

Bruno Richard, partner resident in our Paris Office, is an expert in administrative law and construction. Bruno works on public law matters (PPP, projects, complex dispute and litigation cases, completion of procured infrastructure public works, land planning issues, permitting, environmental issues). He has an impressive track record (CDG Airport, Bridges and Tunnels, ports refurbishments, dredging, Railway stations including the refurbishment of Paris Saint Lazare station, Paris subways, Lille transportation system …) and has been recently selected to act in the context of Eole from Paris Saint Lazare to La Défense. He also takes in charge litigation issues in connection with land planning and environmental issues (acting in the context of the refurbishment of the coal energy plants run by CPCU due to COP 21).

Bruno’s experience is also used to draft various contracts (EPC, subcontracting, engineering) around construction issues. He assisted clients in:

– construction contracts (Warehouses for Goodman, for a French REIT in relation with a 20M€ warehouse and a 70M€ SLB, for EFFIA in order to build new underground parkings)

– public procurements: acting for the consortium for the L12 subway in Paris (2 stations and a tunnel, 25 M€ claimed)

– restructuration of the Saint Lazare Railway Station

– assisting constructors in the largest Tokamak project

– managing contractual disputes in major PPP in France: transportation system in Lille, Hospitals, Stadiums

Paul is a partner in the litigation, arbitration and dispute management practice group in the Dubai office. He has a depth of knowledge and experience in legal practice in the UAE and Middle East region having lived and practiced there for 14 years.

Paul specialises in projects, construction and engineering matters focusing on contentious work, with time, loss, expense and variations often being at the core of such cases. He has advised clients across a wide range of domestic and international construction projects on bespoke and standard form EPC and traditional contract forms, and acts for regional and global clients under all widely recognised arbitration rules in various jurisdictions.

Paul and his team won Middle East Arbitration Team of the Year for 2017 at the Legal Week Awards.

The team, led by Paul, also handle commercial disputes and non-contentious construction work for his clients.