Global menu

Our global pages

Close
Print Friendly and PDF

Construction and engineering

Eversheds Sutherland is the law firm behind some of the world’s most ambitious construction and engineering projects. Our global construction and engineering practices combine extensive experience with in-depth industry knowledge. Wherever you operate, you can build in confidence while our experienced network of international lawyers helps your business chart a course through this complex and constantly evolving legal area.

How our construction and engineering practices can help you

We serve the entire industry – our clients include large commercial, industrial and private owners, construction managers, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, architects, material and equipment suppliers, real estate developers and public entities.

We provide a comprehensive service – our lawyers are able to advise you on every aspect of the industry, including construction project development, negotiating and preparing contracts and documents, project financing, bidding and bonding, permit and land use and environmental compliance. We also deal with employment relations, supply-and distribution-chain contracts, intellectual property protection and licensing, claims presentation, defense and alternative and traditional dispute resolution.

We offer scalability – our team is happy to help you handle routine matters with efficiency and confidence, but we are also able to advise on groundbreaking projects of immense scale. For example, we acted on multiple construction and engineering legal issues for the 2012 Olympics and in the two largest offshore wind farm disputes in the UK.

We look for innovative solutions – for instance, we delivered an entirely new hub-based legal process for Microsoft, allowing the roll-out of a single contract for the company’s real estate development and maintenance worldwide. This hyper-efficient model speeds up the legal process and cuts costs.

We provide effective dispute avoidance and resolution – our disputes team is there to support you when you need it, wherever you operate. When issues arise, we guide you through all the options, helping you to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of every approach. Although our experienced litigators and arbitrators will fight when necessary and across jurisdictions, we are often able to save you the risk and expense of a protracted dispute.

Experienced construction and engineering lawyers

Our experience includes:

  • advising a major energy company in relation to the nuclear new-build project at Hinkley Point C and the Teesside offshore wind farm development
  • representing a major developer in a multi-million-pound dispute regarding the design and construction of one of the most iconic buildings in the UK
  • acting for a European engineering company in a dispute over the construction of the world’s largest man-made structure, designed to cover a destroyed reactor building
  • representing one of the world’s largest construction management companies in resolving claims for contract balance, extra work and delay arising out of the abatement and deconstruction of 130 Liberty Street (the former Deutsche Bank building) in downtown Manhattan, the last building to be removed from the Ground Zero site
  • prevailing as lead counsel to a construction manager in state and federal litigation and related arbitrations in a complex, protracted dispute with the owner of a major casino resort, hotel and retail project, and achieving the largest commercial verdict to that date in the state of Nevada after a nine-month jury trial
  • representing a multinational EPC contractor in several ongoing disputes involving wind generation power facilities in the United States and Canada

Contact our construction and engineering team

If you would like any further information or need advice on construction and engineering law, please contact our legal team.

Choose a country

Select a country to see local services

Print Friendly and PDF

© Eversheds Sutherland 2023. All rights reserved. Eversheds Sutherland is a global provider of legal and other services operating through various separate and distinct legal entities.

Eversheds Sutherland is the name and brand under which the members of Eversheds Sutherland Limited (Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) and their respective controlled, managed and affiliated firms and the members of Eversheds Sutherland (Europe) Limited (each an "Eversheds Sutherland Entity" and together the "Eversheds Sutherland Entities") provide legal or other services to clients around the world. Eversheds Sutherland Entities are constituted and regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legal requirements and operate in accordance with their locally registered names. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland, is for description purposes only and does not imply that the Eversheds Sutherland Entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. The responsibility for the provision of services to the client is defined in the terms of engagement between the instructed firm and the client.