Keating Chambers

Lars has a busy practice specialising in Keating’s core practice areas of construction and engineering, infrastructure, energy, PFI projects, arbitration, and technology. He provides advice, drafting and representation at all stages of litigation and ADR.

He has recently been instructed:

• As sole counsel in the High Court (TCC) to resist an application for specific disclosure by a main contractor.
• As sole counsel in the High Court (TCC) to seek enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision.
• As part of the counsel team led by Simon Hughes KC in a £400m ICC arbitration concerning waste management infrastructure in Qatar.
• As sole counsel to defend a claim against a main contractor in the High Court (TCC) concerning a new-build house warranty.
• To advise an architectural practice in relation to novel duties owed by principal designers under the Building Regulations.

Lars is experienced in both bespoke commercial contracts, as well as modified and unmodified standard form construction contracts, including JCT and NEC forms.

He is a contributor to Keating on Construction Contracts, and was the winner of the Society for Construction Law’s 2022 SCL Hudson Prize for his paper on recent developments in the law relating to building safety and the Defective Premises Act of 1972.

A former in-house lawyer, Lars worked as in-house counsel at a market-leading fintech startup based in London before joining Keating.