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Rob is a specialist project disputes lawyer with more than 13 years’ experience in New Zealand.  Rob acts for a range of private and public clients with a focus on resolving complex in-project disputes and post-completion claims including by way of settlements, adjudication, arbitration, or the courts.  Rob has particular experience in construction and property related claims arising across a variety of sectors and projects including motorways, hospitals, multi-unit apartments, commercial, industrial and civil works. 

Rob also works closely with clients’ in-house legal teams as dedicated project counsel to provide client-focussed, strategic advice and has particular expertise in pre-dispute risk mitigation and dispute avoidance. Rob’s recent work includes acting for:

• a large institutional investor in an arbitration concerning a leaky building;
• a tier-1 main-contractor on multiple motorway projects including upstream and downstream disputes;
• a Crown Agent in a High Court trial concerning seismic defects at a hospital; and
• main contractors and subcontractors in various Construction Contract Act adjudications.