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Mr Andrew Davies

+44 20 7421 1986 adavies@fenwickelliott.com View profile

Work Department

Construction and energy

Position

Andrew has 20 years’ experience in dispute avoidance and dispute resolution in the construction, engineering and energy sectors. Andrew works with clients to avoid disputes and seek commercial resolutions wherever possible. When disputes do arise, he has considerable experience of resolving disputes by negotiation, adjudication, expert determination, mediation, arbitration and litigation.

Andrew was first recommended in The Legal 500 UK in 2013. His Legal 500 UK recommendation for 2020 describes Andrew as a “very capable construction lawyer” on “complex and challenging matters”.

Andrew’s practice focuses on domestic disputes throughout the construction supply chain.  Andrew mainly acts for contractors but has also acted for employers, subcontractors and construction professionals in a variety of domestic and international disputes. Andrew’s experience includes advising on complex issues of contractual interpretation, termination and repudiation, defects and quality, delay, loss and expense, and payment.

Andrew has experience with the NEC, JCT, GC/Works and IChemE standard form contracts and subcontracts as well as with bespoke domestic and international construction and engineering contracts and subcontracts.

Career

Andrew graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in law before studying the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law. Andrew trained with Berrymans Lace Mawer and previously worked at Dechert and K&L Gates (formerly Nicholson Graham and Jones), specialising in construction law. Andrew joined Fenwick Elliott in 2010 and was made a partner in 2015.

Andrew is the editor of, and regular contributor to, the Fenwick Elliott blog.

Andrew regularly gives talks and seminars to clients and other industry groups on a variety of construction law topics.

Andrew wrote the chapter on dispute resolution in the book Construction and Engineering Law: A Guide for Project Managers (Butterworths, 2003).

Languages

English

Memberships

Member of the Society of Construction Law.

Education

University of Wales, College of Law

Leisure

Andrew is a keen cyclist and in 2020 will be cycling to MIPIM for the third time.