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Shoosmiths LLP
No 1 Bow Churchyard
LONDON
EC4 9DQ
England
No 1 Bow Churchyard
LONDON
EC4 9DQ
England
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Ryan Fordham
Work Department
Partner, Real Estate
Position
Ryan is a partner in the construction and engineering team at Shoosmiths.
He specialises in drafting and negotiating construction and engineering contracts based on industry standard forms such as FIDIC, ICC, IChemE, JCT, MF/1, NEC3/4 and PPC2000 and bespoke forms including EPC, EPCM (offshore and onshore) and FEED contracts, as well as framework agreements, pre-construction services agreements, professional appointments, security and other ancillary construction and engineering documents.
Ryan’s expertise includes providing construction procurement and project and transaction advice to developer, contractor, sub-contractor, consultant, landlord, tenant, investor and funder clients across a broad range of sectors including office, hotels, prime residential, retail, mixed use, healthcare, utilities, energy and infrastructure.
His recent project experience includes advising:
- the developer of a of 12,000 sq ft development of commercial and retail space, as well as 111 apartments arranged over 1 to 8 storeys, in Bermondsey, London;
- a fund manager in their head office relocation to a new landmark office building in central London;
- the developer of a block of 130 residential flats in Birmingham;
- a JV developer in relation to various sets of works at two business parks in the Home Counties;
- the operator on the construction aspects of its adoption and operation of the utilities infrastructure for Google’s new £1bn London headquarters in King’s Cross; and
- a sub-contractor in its tender negotiations for multiple sub-contract packages on Phase One of HS2.
Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Ryan was the head of construction and engineering at Travers Smith.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
Shoosmiths LLP provides non-contentious advice on high-end development matters, primarily serving developers. Ian Reid leads the team, offering a range of services from advising on procurement routes to providing legal guidance throughout the build period. Ryan Fordham specialises in drafting and negotiating industry-standard construction and engineering contracts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Costs lawyers
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Transport > Rail
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Real estate > Planning
- Transport > Shipping
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax