Hamish Lal's practice covers the real estate, renewables, nuclear, oil, PFI, and major projects sectors. Hamish is head of the London Office's contentious and noncontentious construction law practice, and he has experience drafting FIDIC, NEC, IChemE, JCT, and ICE-based contracts as well as target cost and alliance contracts. He has handled adjudications, arbitrations, expert determinations, mediations, and High Court disputes relating to a variety of contractual, technical, and financial matters including complex contractual interpretation, breach of EU procurement law, delay & disruption, professional negligence, defects, practical completion, liquidated damages, payment, variations, and termination.
Hamish's notable engagements prior to joining Jones Day in 2009 include advising the employer on a complex delay/disruption dispute in Qatar, advising employer of the world's largest offshore wind farm project, acting on nuclear decommissioning (tier 2) disputes, acting for owners of North Sea floating production storage and offloading systems (FPSO) with respect to EPC contracts and O&M obligations, and a dispute relating to negligence causing delay and disruption on a 1200 MW coal-fired power station. In addition, he has acted in an UNCITRAL arbitration relating to a drilling rig in the North Caspian Sea and adjudication enforcement proceedings Mott Macdonald Ltd v London & Regional Properties Ltd [2007] EWHC 1055.
Hamish is author of Quantifying and Managing Disruption Claims (second edition due 2012), and he has published extensively and presented at a number of international and U.K. conferences on construction law and nuclear decommissioning and new build. He is a member of the Council of the Society of Construction Law and sits on the Committee of the Adjudication Society.
Honors & Distinctions
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Described in Chambers UK (2009) as "a clever and commercial operator ‘he knows exactly what his clients are after’"; awarded the Parkman Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers (2008)
Fulbright Scholar