Herbert Smith's top-ranked non-contentious construction team focuses on large-scale construction and engineering projects whether in the UK or on an international basis. We regularly act on landmark commercial real estate developments and on major infrastructure, PFI/PPP and energy projects. Our clients include governments, leading developers, financiers and major contractors, many of whom are household names.
We regularly advise on headline UK development projects including The Millennium Dome, The Bull Ring in Birmingham and numerous office and retail developments for some of the UK's leading developers, such as Hammerson and Capital Shopping Centres. We also act for numerous corporate occupiers on HQ relocations. As well as receiving stand-alone instructions, we work closely with our leading edge real estate team.
Our extensive PFI/PPP credentials include prisons, GCHQ's new Cheltenham headquarters, and various hospital projects (eg, Portsmouth, Greenwich and Oxford Radcliffe), and NHS LIFT Schemes, as well as on infrastructure projects such as Tyne Tunnel and LUL. We also have advised Land Securities Trillium on various projects as part of its innovative outsourcing deal with the BBC at White City, Broadcasting House and Pacific Quay.
In the energy sector, we have recently advised on power stations in the Republic of Ireland, Tunisia, India and the Channel Islands, on oil refineries in India and Saudi Arabia and on offshore wind farms in Denmark and The Netherlands. We advise extensively on energy from waste projects in the UK.
We contribute to legal publications on construction law and liaise closely with our leading contentious construction and arbitration team in order to provide an industry-focused service to our clients.
"technically strong" and "very thorough”
Chambers UK 2005