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Wragge & Co LLP

55 COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM, B3 2AS, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0870 903 1000
Fax:
Fax 0870 904 1099
DX:
13036 BIRMINGHAM-1
Web:
www.wragge.com
Email:
Paris, Munich, London, Brussels, Birmingham

Simon E Baylis

Tel:
Work +44 121 629 1841
Email:
Wragge & Co LLP

Work Department

Construction.

Position

Partner and head of construction and engineering specialising in construction law and arbitration.

Career

Qualified as a chartered quantity surveyor working from 1972-83 in the construction industry; practised as a chartered surveyor exclusively in construction arbitration 1983-89 (called to the Bar 1985); joined Neil F Jones 1989; re-qualified as a solicitor and became partner 1992; managing partner 1999; partner Wragge & Co 1999; publications: co-author with other partners ‘Set-Off in the Construction Industry’ and with Neil F Jones ‘The JCT Intermediate Form of Building Contract’; has lectured extensively on construction contracts and the law.

Member

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association (and committee; chairman 2008-10); Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Society of Construction Law.

Education

Bristol Grammar School; ARICS (1976); University of Sheffield (1981 LLB Hons); ACI Arb (1981); Bar Finals (1985); Law Society Finals (1991); FCI Arb (1994).

Practice Areas

Arbitration, ADR, mediation; Construction - contentious; Construction - non-contentious

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