Ann Minogue
Ann Minogue is a Partner and head of Linklater’s real estate construction and engineer- ing team; having originally been a Partner in McKenna & Co from June 1985. She read law at Clare College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1980.
She specialises in non-contentious construction work and has drafted amendments to various of the standard forms as well as drafting new forms of contract to cater for more diverse procurement methods. In particular, she drafted the British Property Federation’s standard forms, the new edition of DOM/1 and the new GC/Works/ Sub-Contract. She was involved in drafting the construction documentation for the major 1980s projects – Canary Wharf, Broadgate, Ludgate and the Channel Tunnel Project – and has since been involved in some of today’s bigger projects – the Royal Opera House, Tate Modern, the Hungerford Bridges Project, Stockley Park, the British Museum Great Court Project.
In the Central London office market, she has also been involved in the construction documentation (including the construction aspects of development agreements and agreements for lease) on the recent developments at Garrard House, Gresham Street, 59 Gresham Street, the Paternoster re-development, 33 Holborn (the old Mirror building) and Atlantic House, Holborn.
She also sits on the BPF Construction Committee and advises the BPF on con- struction matters as well as representing the Construction Client’s Forum on the JCT Drafting Sub-Committee.
She is a contributor on construction matters to Freeman’s Guide to the Property Industry and the Architects Legal Handbook. She had a monthly column in Building Magazineon construction law issues.
Jenny Baster
Jenny Baster qualified as a solicitor in 1978. Having worked first at a law centre and subsequently in a City practice, in 1985 she joined Ove Arup Partnership, a leading international firm of consulting engineers, where she is Legal Director. She has extensive practical experience advising on the legal aspects of the firm’s day to day operations, with a particular involvement in contractual and insurance matters. She has experience of litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution in the UK and
internationally. Jenny’s role extends to in-house training on a variety of commercial and legal issues and she has, in addition, contributed to external training courses. She has worked closely with the construction industry professional institutions and has partici- pated in a number of professional review bodies including committees of the Association of Consulting Engineers and the Construction Industry Council. Jenny’s experience has centred on the practical application of the law to engineers in a commercial environment.
Sir Vivian Ramsey QC
Sir Vivian Ramsey studied Engineering Science and Economics at Oxford University before working as a civil engineer in the UK and overseas. During this time he became a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
After studying law in London he was called to the Bar in 1979 and was a practising barrister from 1981 to 2005. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992 and from 2003 to 2005 he was Head of Keating Chambers, the largest London set of barristers’ Chambers specialising in Building, Technology, IT and associated commercial Disputes.
He practised around the world as an advocate, arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator in technical disputes, particularly related to construction and engineering projects. He acted for governments, public authorities, utilities, international contracting companies, consultancies, architects, engineers and other construction professionals.
He continues to act as a Special Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham and lectures at King’s College, London.
In November 2005 he was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division where for a substantial part of his time he sits in the Technology and Construc- tion Court. He received a knighthood on his appointment.
Michael O’Reilly
Mike O’Reilly is a chartered engineer, having worked on a number of prestigious projects with Arup including geotechnical designs for the Canary Wharf project. On passing his Bar Finals, he trained at Keating and Atkin Chambers before returning to academia, where he taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield and was then appointed Head of Civil Engineering at Kingston University. In 2000 he returned to independent practice at the Bar and appeared in a number of high profile cases reported in the Building Law Reports, the Competition Appeal Reports and the European Law Reports. In January 2006, he transferred to the Solicitor’s branch of the profession in order to establish Adie O’Reilly LLP, a specialist property and con- struction law firm based in Lincoln, but with a national and international client list.
Authors
Mark O’Neill
Mark O’Neill qualified as a New Zealand barrister and solicitor in 1985. He joined Allen & Overy in 1991 and became a partner in the banking department in 1995.
Mark has a broad banking practice but specializes in property financing – both investment and construction. He heads the Property Finance Group at Allen & Overy and acts for a number of leading property finance banks and property investors. He has been involved in numerous construction financings over recent years, employing various construction contract models.
John Scriven
John Scriven became a partner at Allen & Overy in 1988. He specializes in advising on major projects world-wide including water, power, road, telecommunications and other infrastructure projects, advising sponsors, project companies, lenders and contractors. John has also advised sponsors, project companies, lenders and investors on UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI/PPP) schemes for hospitals and healthcare, water treatment, light rail and prison construction and operation.
He has a particular interest in construction law and related issues, and heads the Construction Law Group which is an integral part of the Allen & Overy Projects Group. In addition, John has advised in a number of property development transactions acting for employers, investors, lenders and tenants.
He is editor and co-author of A contractual guide to major construction projects (1999), and contributor to Future directions in construction law (1992) and Risk management and procurement(1995).
David Marks
David Marks is a partner in CMS Cameron McKenna where he specializes in EC and competition law. A growing aspect of his practice is advice on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of the EC and WTO procurement regimes.
He has worked on major PFI/PPP schemes both in the UK and in continental Europe. He has also been involved with many of the main Lottery funded cultural projects. David is a frequent speaker on procurement law issues. He has practised in Brussels where he ran his firm’s office. He has also studied law in France and Germany.
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 30 years’ experience in private practice, the public service and as a university academic, including six and a half years working in Hong Kong.
He is presently employed as a Tutor in Project Management at the College of Estate Management in Reading, and also as an Associate by James R. Knowles Procurement and Partnering Services. In addition to best practice in construction procurement, his specialist skills include disputes avoidance, privately financed infrastructure, informa- tion technology in construction, and construction education. His publications in these areas presently include four full length books and a substantial number of internation- ally refereed journal articles and conference papers.
Tracy London
Tracy is a specialist non-contentious construction lawyer and has been in Herbert Smith’s Construction and Engineering group since 1999. Prior to that time she worked as a lawyer in Australia. She has more than ten years’ experience as a non- contentious construction lawyer in various sectors, both national and international, including the energy and resources sector. Her role is focused on the preparation and negotiation of construction related documentation, procured both traditionally and under project finance structures, including PFI.
Nicholas Downing
Nicholas Downing is a specialist non-contentious construction lawyer and has been a partner in Herbert Smith’s Construction and Engineering Department since 1997. His role is focused on the preparation and negotiation of construction-related documenta- tion for a wide range of projects, whether procured traditionally or under project finance structures. He is particularly interested in innovative procurement methods.
Herbert Smith has one of the leading construction and engineering law practices among UK law firms. The firm is also regarded in independent reviews for the legal profession as the leader in the PFI market and has acted on many of the largest or most complex PPP transactions to date. In 1999, Herbert Smith was named as Law Firm of the Year by Chambers.
The depth of Nicholas’ experience is illustrated by some of the leading transactions with which he has been involved. For traditionally procured projects, he has advised on Disneyland Paris, the construction of designer outlet villages across the UK and mainland Europe for BAA-McArthur/Glen, numerous new headquarters buildings for leading City institutions and major leisure, office and retail developments for some of the UK’s largest developers, such as Land Securities and Hammerson.
In the PPP context, Nicholas advises projects sponsors, project companies and financiers. Some of the leading deals on which he has worked include GCHQ (one of the largest and most sophisticated facilities to be built under the PFI), Kings’ College London, Health and Safety Laboratories and Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Greenwich (which has won an award for best degree of risk transfer).
Nicholas speaks regularly at seminars on construction law.
David Hudson
During a career spanning over 25 years, David Hudson has gained extensive experience in project management, quantity surveying and construction/property consultancy covering a wide range of projects in both the public and private sectors. David has
been involved in projects in both the UK and overseas, with values ranging from £1 million up to £400 million.
David joined Tropus (formerly McBains Ltd) in 1978, and is now Chairman with over- all responsibility for financial performance. Additionally, as Chief Executive of McBains Investment Management Limited (MIM), which was set up in 1995 to lead consortia and raise finance for PFI projects. David is responsible for running all PFI activities and has won four projects as Preferred Bidder and five more as Reserve Preferred Bidder. As well as leading consortia, David is directly responsible for financial modelling and for negotiating the contract structures.
Currently, David is a board member of Broomleigh Housing Association, one of the UK’s largest Housing Associations and an active member of the British Property Federation.
Kirstin Warley
Kirstin Warley is a professional support lawyer in the Construction group at Linklaters. She advises and trains lawyers on all aspects of construction law, participates in govern- ment and industry body consultations, drafts precedent construction documentation and produces regular updates on recent legal and industry developments. Prior to becoming a professional support lawyer, Kirstin worked as a client-facing solicitor in London (specialising in international construction arbitration) and in Australia where she prepared and negotiated documentation for construction, infrastructure, defence and telecommunications projects. She is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and in New South Wales, Australia.
William Gloyn
Bill Gloyn is the Chairman of Aon Risk Services, Commercial Property Group which he set up in 1983. He heads up the Real Estate Practice Group which has representatives from all Aon European territories. He rejoined the company in 1992 after three years as Vice President–Insurance of Olympia & York where he controlled their London-based insurance programme. He remains a consultant to Canary Wharf Group plc.
He advises the British Property Federation on insurance matters and has been appointed as BPF Construction Clients Forum representative on the Construction Industry Board Liability & Latent Defects Insurance Working Group set up to consider the way forward following publication of the Latham Report on the future of the construction industry.
FIABCI elected him to membership in 1987 and in June 1999 he was installed as Vice- President of the European Committee.
In addition to being a member of the City of London Law Society Construction Industry Working Party, Bill is an external tutor for the Masters Degree in Construction Law at Kings College, University of London. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a contributor to the property and legal press. He is joint author of A Guide to Commer- cial Property and Construction Insuranceand A Handbook of Property Management and a contributor to the Freeman’s Guide to the Property Industry.
Marshall Levine
Marshall Levine studied law at University College, London, obtained a further degree in Estate Management and his Masters in Construction Management at Reading Univer- sity.
Marshall qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and has been a partner of Linklaters (part of the Linklaters & Alliance group) since 1989 and is currently Head of the Construction and Engineering Group. He has been involved in a wide range of property and con- struction matters, including dispute resolution and advice in relation to many major joint ventures, construction projects and construction financings.
He is involved in PFI projects in the UK and in Europe in the health, waste water infrastructure and property sectors advising consortia, lender and government bodies of PFI structuring, and PFI/PPP projects generally. He is particularly involved in exporting PFI to Europe including Cyprus, Russia and Germany.
He is author of Construction and Engineering Precedents, Construction and UK Insurance Law, and Construction and Environmental Law.
Ray Robinson
Ray Robinson, a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a registered Insurance Broker, is the Technical Consultant for the Commercial Property Group of Aon Limited and the editor of Aon’s regular newsletter Property Eye.
Before joining Aon, Ray spent nearly 40 years in the insurance industry, most of it with Royal & Sun Alliance. For a number of years he was the Underwriting Manager for the prestigious Sun Alliance property owners account in the West End. He also managed their Building Defects account during the same period.
Ray has written numerous articles and papers on a wide range of topics in the property and legal press and is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on insurance sub- jects of interest to the property world. He is the author of a number of underwriting and training manuals and has contributed to several externally published works includ- ing the Handbook of Property Management and the Construction Law Handbook. He has represented both the Association of British Insurers and the British Property Federation in discussions on the future of latent defects insurance and was instrumental in setting up the discussions between those two bodies that led to the development of the latest products.
Richard Linsell
Richard Linsell is head of the Professional Practices Group at Addleshaw Goddard LLP and is the current Chairman of the Association of Partnership Practioners. Richard is probably the solicitor most associated with the UK LLP movement. He qualified as a solicitor in 1972 with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and became a partner in 1976. In the last ten years he has gradually developed what is now undoubtedly one of the most prestigious professional practices in the UK. Rowe & Maw have traditionally acted for professional firms in the building services sector. However, in those ten years Richard has added major firms in the accountancy, actuarial, patent and trade mark and even legal sectors to the client portfolio.
The Professions Group at Rowe & Maw is a multi-disciplinary grouping, led by Richard Linsell, dedicated to understanding and fulfilling the legal services needs of the regulated professions.
Caroline Abrey
Caroline Abrey is a partner in the corporate/commercial department of Shadbolt & Co. Solicitors. Caroline has a wide range of commercial experience including corporate finance, company acquisitions and disposals and trading relationship agreements includ- ing domestic and international joint ventures.
Caroline Cree
Caroline Cree is a Chartered Civil Engineer with some twenty years’ experience of work- ing in the construction industry, first as a consulting engineer and then as a contractor and management consultant. Caroline is currently responsible for risk management within Carillion plc. This encompasses all aspects of the construction to services spec- trum. Working under conventional and innovative contractual arrangements, including traditional construction and building projects, project finance and the range of facilities management services. These projects include large-scale joint ventures and partnering arrangements in Europe and overseas.
Christopher Morgan
Chris is an International Tax Partner in the KPMG London office.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1991 in the tax department of a large city law firm. He joined KPMG in Milan in 1993 where he worked for a year, advising mainly US and UK clients on investing into Italy, and mergers and acquisitions. He returned to London in 1994 and became a partner in the International Tax Group in 1998.
Chris specializes in advising on cross-border transactions including reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and business structuring. He also provides advice on specialized areas of UK international law such as the controlled foreign com- pany legislation, double tax relief, and thin capitalization issues. Chris is also a member of a multi-disciplinary team focusing on ways of exploiting intellectual property.
Chris’s clients are multi-nationals in a wide range of industries including pharmaceu- ticals, shipping, manufacturing and professional services.
During the past year, Chris has been heavily involved in discussing the implementa- tion of a tonnage tax for shipping with the Chamber of Shipping and the Inland Revenue. He has also played a leading role in establishing a new law firm, Klegal, which is associated with KPMG.
Steve Priddy
Steve is Finance Director of the Building Engineering division of Ove Arup Partnership Limited.
He joined Arup in 1986. In 1997 he was awarded a doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of London. He is Vice Chair of the Corporate Sector Network at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He has written several articles in the Corpo- rate Sector Newsletter of the ACCA on topics such as benchmarking, key performance indicators, and the challenges posed to accountants by the ‘new technology’ ventures.
He has considerable experience of working in the Middle East, Turkey and, latterly, mainland Europe. He has been integrally involved in setting up of offices in Germany, Spain and Turkey and other major Eurozone locations. Additionally, he has been involved with offshore working arrangements in many countries. He aspires to be a good European. With Arup he has developed financial training for non financial people and is integrally involved in the firm’s commercial management programme. He believes strongly in simplification and the importance of situating accounting in the context of the business organization and wider society.
Rachel Barnes
Rachel Barnes obtained a law degree from Bristol University in 1972. She joined Beale and Company in June 1973, qualified as a solicitor in 1975 and became a partner in the firm in 1977.
From 1975 to 1985 she was concerned mainly with construction litigation. For the most part, this involved defending consulting engineers in High Court cases and arbitrations in