Building Investments and FIDIC Contracts

We render a full range of legal services to investors, project supervisors, contract engineers and contractors.  We specialise in disputes taken to court or arbitration as advisor-consultants, and act as legal administrators of contracts. Our experts also analyse and model new contracts with a view of introducing innovative solutions.  We have experience in rendering legal services to investments of great value (among others, infrastructural, hydrotechnical, large volume buildings of public utility). We particularly draw attention to our services in:

  • representing investors in administrative proceedings regarding the preparation of investments and obtaining the necessary decisions and permits;
  • drafting building works  agreements and contracts;
  • advisory on applying FIDIC contract conditions in investment project work including those implemented by way of public procurements;
  • helping to choose optimal FIDIC contract solutions, among others, in regard of:
    • Commencement, delay and suspension,
    • Quantity surveying and cost estimates,
    • Contractual prices and payables,
    • Changes and corrections to works,
    • Guarantees and insurance,
    • Dissolving contracts,
    • Claims of Contractors,
    • Claims of Ordering Parties,
    • Claims and dispute resolution;
  • negotiating/devising advantageous risk management schemes for clients (investors/contractors)
  • defining the responsibilities of contracting parties and other parties to investment processes;
  • overseeing procedures in conducting building investments on the basis of FIDIC contracts;
  • giving legal support in the management of FIDIC contracts by engineers;
  • advisory on counteracting or minimising contractual snares arising in investment implementation processes;
  • disputes on building works / FIDIC contracts taken to court and arbitration.