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Claire King

020 7421 1986 cking@fenwickelliott.com View profile

Work Department

Construction and energy

Position

Claire specialises in the resolution of both domestic and international construction and engineering disputes that may arise during the life-cycle of a project including those relating to delays, variations, defects, interim payment notices and final account disputes.

She has experience of all major forms of dispute resolution including litigation, adjudication, arbitration, and mediation and regularly advises clients on the best strategies to adopt in order to resolve their disputes in accordance with their commercial objectives.

Claire is recommended in Legal 500 for international arbitration. She regularly advises in relation to the key standard form construction contracts including the NEC, JCT, FIDIC and IChemE forms and has worked across a wide range of sectors within the industry including in relation to a nuclear implicated facility.

Career

Claire is the author of Fenwick Elliott’s Insight publication and her articles have been widely published across numerous industry journals.

Claire is on the Steering Committee for the Adjudication Society and King’s College’s research into Adjudication practise.

Claire is also a co-author of Mediating Construction Disputes: An Evaluation of Existing Practice which was shortlisted for the prize for best communication or publication by CEDR in its 2010 awards and which received a CEDR award for excellence.

Claire is a regular speaker on construction law issues.

Memberships

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member of the Society of Construction Law; Member of the King’s College Construction Law Association; Member of TeCSA; Co-opted committee member of the Adjudication Society.

Education

Claire graduated from Somerville College, Oxford in 1999 with a degree in Modern History before converting to law. She qualified in Ashurst’s litigation department in 2003 where she acted on a range of highvalue disputes (including the Sumitomo litigation) before specialising in construction and PFI disputes.

Claire achieved a distinction in her MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College, London for which she was awarded the Bickerdike Allen Prize for the best examination performance by a first-year student, the KCCLA Prize for the best performance in the second-year examinations, the Arbitration Philip Ranner Prize for the best Module D (arbitration) result and the Society of Construction Law Prize for the best dissertation. She is a Solicitor Advocate.