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Whether you are an employer/owner, contractor, funder/investor or you are buying an interest in a project that is under construction or has recently been completed, you need documents that reflect your risk profile, protect your interests and promote collaborative working and optimum project delivery.

Drafting those agreements and implementing the rights and obligations that flow from them becomes key to avoiding, managing and resolving disputes successfully.

Understanding where, how and why problems arise enables us to devise winning strategies to protect our clients and to craft agreements that facilitate project delivery. Preventing and managing disputes is given top priority. We advise on the full range of domestic and international disputes procedures.

One of the first firms to recognise construction law as a specialist area and create a dedicated team, our global practice focuses on understanding each client’s business and delivering advice in this context.

Through close relationships with our clients and the sectors in which they operate, we help deliver construction, engineering, infrastructure and energy projects. We advise on every aspect from inception and procurement through funding and building to commissioning and operation, as well as dispute resolution.

Unlike other firms, whose construction lawyers do a mix of contentious and non-contentious work, we have partners and associates who are dedicated to and experts in these particular disciplines.

Working closely with colleagues specialising in real estate development and project finance, insurance, tax, procurement law, planning, energy and environmental law, our full service Construction Team has a market-leading track record of advising on a diverse range of transactions and disputes concerning some of the largest, most complex and high profile projects in the world.


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01/03/2024
Pre-conditions to arbitration and the FIDIC 2nd Edition
Amendments to the FIDIC 2nd Edition contracts published in November 2022 have narrowed the definition of “Dispute” to more closely align it with the pre-conditions to DAAB and arbitration proceedings...
27/02/2024
Singapore High Court clarifies the lodgement period of adjudication applications
HP Construction & Engineering Pte Ltd v Mega Team Engineering Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC(A) 5The Appellate Division of the Singapore High Court has clarified when an adjudication application under the Building...
19/01/2024
CBAM: Just over a week to comply
As the deadline for the first Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) report approaches on January 31st, it is crucial for undertakings engaged in importing relevant goods into the European Union to...
01/11/2023
Delay claims under the FIDIC form: Obrascon challenged
A recent decision of the Court of Appeal of the Dubai International Financial Centre has adopted a stricter interpretation of the requirements for notifying delay claims under the FIDIC form, disagreeing...
30/05/2023
Annual CMS APAC Construction Conference 2023
As the world comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the efforts of recovery and rebuilding nations and economies have begun in earnest. All Southeast Asian economies are seeing an increase in in­fra­struc­ture...
01/03/2023
Annual Review of Singapore Construction Law Developments 2022
The 2022 edition of the Annual Review of Singapore Construction Law Developments covers developments in 2022 on decisions in the Singapore courts which would be of relevance to projects governed by Singapore...
02/11/2022
APAC IP Update – Autumn 2022
China CNIPA releases China Patent Survey Report 2021 In July 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administratiion (CNIPA) released the China Patent Survey Report 2021. The data in the report...
16/03/2022
APAC IP Update – Winter 2021-2022
China CNIPA releases the Amended Measures for Registration of Pledge of Patent Rights On 16 November 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released the amended “Measures...
21/12/2021
APAC IP Update – Winter 2021
China China encourages IP disputes mediation On 22 October 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued “the Opinions on Strengthening...
08/12/2021
Annual Review of Singapore Construction Law Developments 2021
The inaugural edition of the Annual Review of Singapore Construction Law Developments contains updates on decisions in the Singapore courts which would be of relevance to projects governed by Singapore...
04/11/2021
Update: CMS Expert Guide to International Arbitration – Americas
We are pleased to announce that the fifth volume of the CMS Expert Guide to International Arbitration has been published, covering seven jurisdictions in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile...
01/10/2021
Building a Pan­dem­ic-Re­si­li­ent Construction Sector: Lessons drawn from Covid-19
This article is produced by CMS Holborn Asia, a Formal Law Alliance between CMS Singapore and Holborn Law LLC. A. Overview In its circular of 23 September 2021, titled “Adopting Pandemic Resilient Contracting...