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Brodies LLP

15 ATHOLL CRESCENT, EDINBURGH, EH3 8HA, SCOTLAND
Tel:
Work 0131 228 3777
Fax:
Fax 0131 228 3878
Web:
www.brodies.com
Email:
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen

Mark Finlay

Tel:
Work +44 131 656 0101
Email:
Brodies LLP

Work Department

Construction team, litigation department.

Position

Partner and head of the firm’s construction and engineering group, specialising in construction and engineering contracts advice, advising developers, banks, consultants, purchasers and contractors on building and engineering contracts, consultants’ appointments and associated contractual matters such as bonds, guarantees and collateral warranties. Also covers the construction requirements of major projects from purchase or sale to PFI, as well as providing specialist construction advice to retailers and other non-specialist users of construction industry services; deals with the resolution of construction disputes (by negotiation, mediation and adjudication) and in conjunction with the firm’s litigators, by arbitration and litigation.

Career

Trained Fyfe Ireland; qualified 1986; assistant 1986-87; assistant Steedman Ramage 1987-89; partner 1989-2000; partner Brodies 2000; Notary Public; regular contributor to the Scottish construction press.

Languages

French, Spanish.

Member

Society of Construction Law.

Education

Craigmount, Edinburgh; Edinburgh University (1983 LLB Hons; 1984 Dip LP).

Leisure

Family, road cycling, music.

Practice Areas

Construction - contentious; Construction - non-contentious

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