• Developing Contracts / Subcontracting Strategies

• Drafting Contracts / Subcontracts and contract documents including Forms of bank guarantees, certificates, Contract Exhibits etc.

• Contract review and redrafting

• Managing and administering tendering activities including the drafting of invitation to tender packages

• Tender evaluation and the preparation of recommendations to award

• Contract negotiation and redrafting 

• Commercial negotiation 

• Drafting and negotiating letters of contract award 

• Contract improvement initiatives (drafting improvements, commercial re-balancing of risks and alternative reward / penalty mechanisms etc…)

Contractor / Subcontractor Facing

• Preparing contractual and commercial correspondence including contract notices preserving and enforcing Company rights

• Evaluating and defending Company with respect to change / variation order requests and claims, for time and cost, submitted by Contractors / Subcontractors including the management of and liaison with the quantity surveying and planning functions

• Maximising Company negative change / variation order requests and claims against Contractor / Subcontractors

• Ensuring delay liquidated damages are levied and rights to claim are maintained

• Drafting and negotiating commercial Settlement Agreements with Contractor / Subcontractors

Company Facing

• Preparing contractual and commercial correspondence including contract notices and ensuring they are issued in a timely manner preserving Contractor / Subcontractors rights and avoiding time bars

• Developing a change / variation order request and claims strategy

• Identifying, preparing change / variation order requests and claims, for time and cost, for submission to Company including the management of and liaison with the quantity surveying and planning functions

• Defending Contractor / Subcontractors position and rebutting the Company response to the change / variation order requests and claims submitted by Contractor / Subcontractors to Company

• Maximising the ‘pass through’ of Subcontractor change / variation order requests and claims to the Company

• Drafting and negotiating commercial settlement agreements

• Managing and liaising with internal and external legal advisors including the drafting of requests for legal advice, analysing and reviewing such advice to ensure it responds to the questions asked and addresses the Company’s broader needs rather than focusing on narrow legal issues

• Managing and liaising with internal and external Subject Matter Experts: Engineering, construction, commissioning, cost (QS’s), planners

• Managing the formal dispute resolution process including working with the external legal advisors and Subject Matter Experts ensuring the Company’s broader needs are addressed and opportunities of negotiated settlements are identified 

• Developing a disputes resolution strategy in close cooperation with internal and external legal advisors

• Reviewing pleadings prepared by the external legal advisors to ensure the facts and chronology of events have been properly understood

• Drafting negotiation strategies for settlement negotiations focusing on areas of strength and rebutting areas of weakness

• Reviewing any settlement agreements prepared by the external legal advisors

• Providing commercial advice to the Commercial / Proposal and the Project Execution Teams

• Cost estimating and cost modeling 

• Cost monitoring and cost control 

• Quantity surveying 

• Risk management

• Developing ad-hoc training materials in relation to contract management as well as commercial and claims management

• Conducting training

• Coaching and mentoring of personnel

• Advisory services to senior client personnel