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Scott Mounfield

0330 045 2813 scott.mounfield@brownejacobson.com View profile

Work Department

Business and Professional Risk

Position

Scott is a senior associate in the team with eight years PQE and handles both contentious and non-contentious construction matters.

Scott leads on our construction work for education and local authority clients but has experience acting for a range of funders, developers and contractors upon a wide range of issues relating to property transactions, developments and funding arrangements.  Scott is able to advise you on all of the industry standard forms of construction contract, bespoke forms of contract, collateral warranties, appointments, novation agreements, performance bonds, parent company guarantees and letters of intent. Scott has advised clients in relation to a wide range of post-contractual issues ranging from negotiating disputes, engaging in the Pre-Action Protocol for Construction & Engineering Disputes and methods of alternative dispute resolution (without prejudice meetings, mediation and adjudication).

Career

Scott has experience acting for funders, developers and contractors on a wide range of issues relating to property transactions, developments and funding arrangements. Scott leads on our construction work for public sector clients (including local authorities, ALMOs and the NHS) and education (including academy trusts and higher education establishments).

Scott’s previous work experience includes working in house at a large local authority, and clients value his pragmatic, commercial approach to overcoming issues on any given project.

Scott is able to advise you on a wide range of issues and all of the industry standard forms of construction contract, bespoke forms of contract, collateral warranties, appointments, novation agreements, performance bonds, parent company guarantees and letters of intent. He has assisted clients in relation to a wide range of post-contractual issues ranging from negotiating disputes, engaging in the Pre-Action Protocol for Construction and Engineering Disputes and methods of alternative dispute resolution (without prejudice meetings, mediation and adjudication).

Scott has published articles in Local Government Lawyer and Lexology and has given training to regional branches of the RICS.

Trained Weightmans LLP qualified 2013 after five years at Weightmans (Liverpool/Manchester).

Worked as solicitor at VWV LLP (Bristol) between 2014 and 2019

Memberships

None

Education

Keele – Law with English – LLB 2.1 with hons 2006

College of Law – LPC 2008