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Matthew Taylor

Partner
Lawyer

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Matthew Taylor

Partner
Lawyer

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Matthew is a Partner in the Energy, Projects and Construction group. He specialises in dispute resolution and has experience of litigation, arbitration, adjudication and a wide range of forms of ADR.

Matthew also regularly provides live project advice to help clients effectively manage risk on their projects. He also has a particular expertise in dealing with complex, high value delay cases.

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"Matthew Taylor is a very accomplished and clever lawyer who gives very sensible, commercial and strategic advice."

Chambers, 2023

Clients say that he is "very good when you need a detailed lawyer on complex disputes," and add "He demonstrates a genuine understanding of the business and the wider context of the advice he gives."

Legal 500, 2020

‘delves into the detail quickly’.

Legal 500, 2017

"Matthew Taylor is a very accomplished and clever lawyer who gives very sensible, commercial and strategic advice."

Chambers, 2023

Clients say that he is "very good when you need a detailed lawyer on complex disputes," and add "He demonstrates a genuine understanding of the business and the wider context of the advice he gives."

Legal 500, 2020

‘delves into the detail quickly’.

Legal 500, 2017

Relevant experience

  • The developer of a high-end mixed use development in Birmingham on disputes arising out of delays to the refurbishment of the development and the termination of the main contractor. The dispute was the subject of reported adjudication enforcement proceedings and a subsequent stay application.
  • The developer of a prestigious London office building on claims arising out of defects in the water system discovered during commissioning and the associated delays to completion. The case involved managing the resolution of defects before completion, an adjudication in relation to liquidate damages and subsequent insurance claims.
  • The owner of a c900,000 square foot warehouse, let as the largest wine bottling facility in Europe, on claims arising out of defective piling and floor slabs. This was the largest dispute in the Technology and Construction Court in 2014.
  • A client on all aspects of the delay case arising out of the construction of (at the time) the largest off-shore wind farm in the UK. This c$500m dispute was the subject of a five week LCIA arbitration hearing and a three week counter claim hearing.
  • The developer / owner of a major retail development on defective cladding works and implementing an investigatory regime, remedial scheme and claims strategy.
  • A major UK contractor on live project issues regarding a number of its central London projects;providing strategic project advice and dealing with the resolution of disputes through adjudication and ADR.
  • A major UK contractor on a number of sub-contractor disputes arising out of the construction of a new super prison.
  • Private individuals on claims arising out of delays to the construction of both new build and refurbished high-end residential properties in central and west London.
  • A tenant on claims against its landlord arising out of the delay in completion and defective construction of a major central London office development.
  • Multiplex Construction on disputes arising out of the construction of Wembley National Stadium, specifically in relation to a c£45m sub-contract package.
  • A wide range of employers / developers advising on disputes relating to the delay in completion of office, mixed use and retail developments and associated defective works.
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Memberships & Roles

  • TeCSA
  • Society of Construction Law
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Education

  • 2000 – LLB (Hons), University of Leeds, Leeds
  • 2001 – LPC, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham
  • 2010 – MSc Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, Kings's College, London
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Expertise

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21/10/2022
Con­cur­rent delay: TCC de­cision marks a broad­er ap­proach
A TCC de­cision pub­lished this week has up­held an ex­ten­sion of time claim un­der the JCT form based on a find­ing of con­cur­rent delay. Such find­ings have been rare and the court’s ap­proach to con­cur­rent...
Law-Now Real Estate
17/08/2022
Do un­en­force­able li­quid­ated dam­ages pro­vi­sions op­er­ate as a cap on gen­er­al...
A re­cent TCC de­cision is the second in the space of a year to con­sider wheth­er li­quid­ated dam­ages pro­vi­sions which are held to be un­en­force­able may non­ethe­less still op­er­ate as a cap on the amount of...
Law-Now Real Estate
27/06/2022
Court of Ap­peal solves col­lat­er­al war­ranty ad­ju­dic­a­tion riddle
A Court of Ap­peal de­cision last week has over­turned a TCC de­cision con­cern­ing the right to ad­ju­dic­ate un­der col­lat­er­al war­ranties. The Court’s de­cision con­firms the po­ten­tial for col­lat­er­al war­ranties...
Law-Now Real Estate
01/06/2022
Build­ing Safety Act 2022: a shift in the li­ab­il­ity land­scape
The re­cently en­acted Build­ing Safety Act 2022 (the “Act”) makes pro­found changes to the li­ab­il­ity land­scape in the UK con­struc­tion in­dustry. A num­ber of new rights of ac­tion have been in­tro­duced...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
12/11/2021
Ad­ju­dic­a­tion en­force­ment by com­pan­ies in li­quid­a­tion: Court of Ap­peal raises...
A re­cent Court of Ap­peal de­cision has cri­ti­cised ob­iter com­ments made by the Su­preme Court in Bresco v Lonsdale to the ef­fect that ad­ju­dic­a­tion de­cisions in fa­vour of com­pan­ies in li­quid­a­tion could in...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
20/08/2021
Li­quid­ated dam­ages and par­tial pos­ses­sion
A re­cent TCC de­cision has en­forced a li­quid­ated dam­ages clause which did not al­low for a pro­por­tion­ate re­duc­tion in li­quid­ated dam­ages fol­low­ing par­tial pos­ses­sion of com­pleted sec­tions of a de­vel­op­ment...
Law-Now Real Estate
01/02/2021
How far are ad­ju­dic­a­tion de­cisions bind­ing on sub­sequent ad­ju­dic­at­ors? 
A re­cent TCC de­cision has con­sidered the ex­tent to which ad­ju­dic­a­tion de­cisions are bind­ing on a sub­sequent ad­ju­dic­at­ors. In this par­tic­u­lar case, an ini­tial ad­ju­dic­a­tion de­cision which awar­ded an ex­ten­sion...
Law-Now Real Estate
14/01/2021
The rise of the glob­al ex­pert ser­vices prac­tice: Court of Ap­peal guid­ance...
A Court of Ap­peal de­cision earli­er this week has up­held an in­junc­tion gran­ted by the TCC pre­vent­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pert ser­vices firm from act­ing for more than one party to an in­ter­na­tion­al con­struc­tion...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
26/10/2020
As­sign­ment of sub-con­tracts on ter­min­a­tion: con­tract­ors be­ware 
A re­cent TCC de­cision has con­sidered the ef­fect of pro­vi­sions which re­quire con­tract­ors to as­sign sub-con­tracts on ter­min­a­tion for de­fault by an em­ploy­er. The court’s de­cision meant that the con­tract­or...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
29/09/2020
Ac­cept­ance test­ing and the de­fer­ral of ter­min­a­tion rights
A re­cent TCC de­cision has con­sidered the abil­ity of an em­ploy­er to de­fer ex­er­cising rights of ter­min­a­tion in the event a con­tract­or fails to sat­is­fy ac­cept­ance test­ing cri­ter­ia. It is of­ten as­sumed that...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
19/08/2020
Do En­ergy from Waste plants fall with­in the Con­struc­tion Act?
A re­cent TCC de­cision has con­sidered wheth­er En­ergy from Waste plants fall with­in the power gen­er­a­tion ex­emp­tion in sec­tion 105 of the Hous­ing Grants, Con­struc­tion and Re­gen­er­a­tion Act 1998 (the “Con­struc­tion...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
03/08/2020
Fi­nal dates for pay­ment linked to in­voices fall foul of the Con­struc­tion...
A re­cently pub­lished TCC de­cision has found that fi­nal dates for pay­ment must be a fixed peri­od of time from the due date un­der a con­struc­tion con­tract. The court held that a pro­vi­sion which made the...
Law-Now Real Estate
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