Industries: Construction

McGuireWoods helps clients in the United States and around the globe with the legal aspects of complex construction projects, including power plants, airports, hospitals, prisons, infrastructure, factories, high-rises and mid-rises, shopping centers, apartment buildings, condominiums and residential communities. Few firms in the nation have more experience with respect to the construction of energy plants, ranging in size from small distributed generation plants to large nuclear power plants and LNG facilities.

Our construction lawyers have broad experience in construction transactional law as well as claims presentation and resolution:

• Transactional: We have been involved in financing, joint venture and related types of development or partnering agreements, intellectual property issues for proprietary processes or other intellectual property concerns, preparing and negotiating contract documents, labor and environmental issues, insurance, contract administration, and systems or project-specific audits.

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• Litigation: We have participated in construction litigation and alternative dispute resolution of construction projects throughout the country and internationally. Our experience includes not only litigation, but also arbitration, mediation, mock juries, and other creative forms of alternative dispute resolution. On behalf of clients, we have prosecuted or defended all types of construction claims, including bid challenges and protests; performance specifications; construction defects, including sudden failure; and all manner of economic claims (delay, disruption, termination and suspension, trade stacking, interference, design error, geological and other errors and omissions, CPM and other scheduling-based conflicts, acceleration, extended duration, and liquidated damages).

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McGuireWoods has represented all major constituencies in construction projects, public and private owners, engineering and design firms, construction managers, prime contractors and subcontractors, material and equipment suppliers, sureties and financers. Representative clients include some of the world's largest and most sophisticated builders. Our responsibilities often extend to all stages of the project process – bidding and solicitation, contract negotiation and drafting, and project financing, through counseling during construction, to dispute resolution.

Our construction lawyers’ backgrounds relate to construction issues, including insurance and risk management, tax law, energy regulatory, intellectual property protection, licensing and infringement, transactional, project finance, environmental, real estate and land use law, and land in congressional and governmental agency relations. Our labor and employment law practice has handled the full range of issues on behalf of clients in the construction industry, including unions, double breasting, minority business enterprises, discrimination, immigration, and ERISA issues.

McGuireWoods is also a trailblazer in the area of public private partnerships (P3s), and we have worked on numerous creative projects through the years, including student housing, affordable housing, toll bridges, roads, wetland mitigation banks, sports facilities, office buildings, hotels and parking facilities.