Stephenson Harwood

Real Estate and Projects

Ryan is a construction and engineering expert, ushering clients through complex developments and projects with his exceptional legal acumen and ability to find practically workable solutions that are also legally robust.

Ryan specialises in advising a range of clients including developers, contractors, consultants and funders across various sectors such as office, logistics, hospitality, data centre, living, retail, mixed use, life sciences, utilities, energy and infrastructure and provides tailored solutions for construction and engineering challenges. His expertise spans drafting and negotiating industry standard contracts including FIDIC, ICC, IChemE, JCT, MF/1, NEC3/4 and PPC2000 and bespoke contracts such as EPC, EPCM (offshore and onshore) and FEED contracts, as well as framework agreements, pre-construction services agreements, development management and funding agreements, professional appointments, security and other ancillary construction and engineering documents, ensuring clients’ developments and projects are properly structured and procured.

His practice includes advising on development and project strategies, helping clients navigate the intricacies of construction contracts, and the construction aspects of development, funding and adoption agreements, as well as lease arrangements. His comprehensive approach ensures that clients can confidently manage their developments and projects, from inception to completion, while mitigating risks and maximising value.

Clients appreciate Ryan’s ability to combine legal expertise with a deep understanding of commercial pressures and timelines along with his excellent ability to get to the heart of the problem and find a practical solution to achieve their objectives. His work on high-profile developments and projects, such as One Blackfriars, the BBC Television Centre, Thames Tideway Tunnel and HS2, underscores his reputation as a go-to advisor for complex construction and engineering matters.

As a member of the Construction Law Committee of the City of London Law Society, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Paviors and a Freeman of the City of London, clients further benefit from Ryan's enhanced contemporaneous knowledge of topical areas of law and best practices relating to the construction industry.