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Karen Clarke is a partner in the Construction and Engineering team with over 25 years’ experience specialising in the drafting and negotiation of construction, engineering and asset management contracts. She has wide experience of drafting, negotiating and advising on construction contracts, consultant appointments, frameworks and ancillary contract documentation for owners, contractors, developers, institutions and public sector clients on various education, residential, office, retail and leisure projects and in developing standard suites of bespoke construction documentation. Karen’s work covers a mix of large-scale development projects over a wide-range of procurement routes and contract bases, including NEC, JCT and MF/1 forms of contract alongside negotiating UK and global asset management and operational agreements.
Karen has commentated and advised on industry approaches to asset and facilities management, including working with the Chartered Institute of Building on revisions to its standard form of Facilities Management Contract and authoring the LexisPSL module on Facilities Management – Hard FM.
