Trowers & Hamlins LLP has strong expertise representing clients in court proceedings, arbitration, adjudication, and mediation. It advises on building safety claims, delays, infrastructure projects, and fire safety defect claims. Tim Hillier leads the team with strong knowledge of housing development project disputes. April Baynes advises on power project disputes, while Helen Stuart handles fire-safety related defects. In April 2025, Rob Wilson joined the team and has experience acting on domestic construction matters in the education sector.
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  • Excellent understanding of the offshore oil and gas industry and its interface with onshore support companies. Able to give us options that we had not considered or even known about.
  • Tim Hillier's team is very responsive, extremely knowledgeable in their area, and very hard-working and personable to deal with. They are also exceptionally good at judging how much resource to use for matters that come up and keeping the client informed about this.
  • I would rate Tim Hillier (partner) and Olivia Jenkins (Senior Associate) particularly highly for their legal ability and client care skills.
  • April Baynes, a partner in the London office, is a dedicated, hardworking partner with a good team and excellent knowledge and experience in major construction disputes and superb organisational skills. April Baynes is a good team leader who listens to and is responsive to the client's commercial and legal concerns, which she then addresses in her approach to dispute resolution. She is always fair but firm and unflappable.
  • I have worked with Eve Cristo throughout. She is exceptionally dedicated. She is very good at client-facing and dealing with the expert team despite numerous grueling aspects of the case. She is a real pleasure to work with and highly competent.
  • Trowers has a very well-deserved relationship in the local government/social landlord space where they have an impressive array of clients and are running some of the most high-profile cladding and fire safety/defects claims currently in the TCC. However, Trowers offers much more than "just" public sector/quasi-public sector services and has experience and skill across all areas of construction both nationally and internationally.

Key clients

  • The London Museum
  • Ellison Institute of Technology
  • The Berkeley Group
  • EWL Living
Practice head

Tim Hillier

Other key lawyers

April Baynes; Helen Stuart; Rob Wilson; Olivia Jenkins; Matthew Friedlander