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Expert construction law legal advice.

Specialist construction lawyers

All business ventures and activities carry risk – none more so than in the fields of major projects, infrastructure and construction. Whether you are funding, supplying, designing and constructing, servicing, or otherwise operating in the built environment, or in infrastructure and the connectivity of things, the change and innovation you’re seeing needs to be understood and navigated to manage your risk and reward. Our experienced construction lawyers are here to help with legal advice to aid the construction process.

You want to feel confident that you have fully understood those risks and have allocated responsibility fairly and appropriately, so that risks can be managed successfully as one successful team, for everyone’s shared success—for your clients, customers, employees, supply chain, and your other stakeholders.

Our services

To assess risk and navigate a path through risk to success, whatever that looks like for you, you need trusted legal advisors who know you inside and out, so that you participate in your chosen market as one successful team. Our construction solicitors provide expert construction legal advice at every stage of the construction process.

Managing risk & resolving disputes

Our team at Foot Anstey are specialists in assessing risk and advising you, using clear language to describe what that risk looks like, whether it appears fair, and how it compares with risks taken by others in your chosen market or sector. We offer legal strategies for mitigating risk, including negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration, and litigation for construction disputes and construction and engineering disputes.

Financial, commercial & contractual

Our team at Foot Anstey understand complex funding, cross-collateralised security structures, and project finance and can provide you with strategic, commercially astute advice on contracting structures, finance, and procurement methodology. We will provide support and advice on all commercial agreements that might sit around your construction projects, including construction contracts, supply agreements, IT, project finance, and payment security. For your construction and engineering projects, we are experts in the use of JCT, NEC, FIDIC, and IChemE standard forms of contract. Our construction lawyers work closely with clients to ensure their construction contracts align with industry best practices and mitigate risk.

Strategic insights & advice

We offer support, insight, and strategic advice. Our legal experts at Foot Anstey work across multiple industry sectors, including energy (conventional and renewable), infrastructure, advanced manufacturing and technology, leisure, retail, education, and real estate. We understand that construction projects can face unexpected challenges, requiring responsive and knowledgeable legal advisors. If construction disputes arise, our construction lawyers will support you and craft strategies to protect your business interests.

Why choose Foot Anstey?

Our aim is simple. We want to work with you as an extension of your team, to truly get to know your business and offer advice that works for you. Our construction solicitors provide expert guidance through all aspects of construction law, from the inception of a construction project to completion.

Having worked on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects, as well as major international projects, our team is recognised as experts in their subject area. We speak at conferences on legal issues affecting those involved in major projects and collaborate with professional bodies such as the Society of Construction Law, Constructing Excellence, TECBAR, and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

We understand the law, but we won’t bore you with commentary or over-technical legal analysis. When we speak to you, advise you, and make suggestions, it is your ambitions and success we think about.

Our people

Our team’s substantial construction law expertise is extremely wide-ranging. We can support you on your construction projects from start to finish. Many of our construction lawyers are also trained engineers and surveyors, giving us additional senior management and technical experience outside of the legal sector, along with a deep operational understanding of the challenges you might face.

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What do our clients say?

“The Foot Anstey team is truly epic – they have become an integral part of our in-house legal service. This team delivers high-quality legal work, with exceptional attention to detail, alongside honest communication in terms of commercial suggestions and expectations.”

Legal 500 2024

“Good industry understanding and experience, good collaboration, they hear their client’s needs/requests and ensure that they get the best possible results for them, they proposing solutions.”

Legal 500 2024

“The Foot Anstey team have an in depth knowledge of the market and always provide clear, tailored and timely advice. They take the time to really get to know my business and are always approachable.”

Legal 500 2024

‘The construction team provides a diverse team with a multitude of expertise. They are enthusiastic in adapting to the changing market and sharing the benefit of this with their clients.’

Legal 500 2024

“The Foot Anstey energy team have become a fundamental part of our project delivery team and have always provided us with high quality good value advice on all legal aspects that we have sought and engaged their assistance. They have a can do attitude and always look to solve problems rather than create them which is a crucial starting position from my viewpoint and helps to differentiate them from others.”

Legal 500 2023

“Good commercial awareness and pragmatic approach to problem-solving.”

Legal 500 2023

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