WHY INSTRUCT RIDGEMONT?
We are genuine specialists
and we provide excellent client service
Why Instruct Ridgemont?
Ridgemont is a specialist construction and engineering law firm, built by lawyers who’ve spent their careers at top-tier international firms. We are trusted by our clients to advise them on their most important
transactions and business-critical disputes.
All of our qualified lawyers are partner-level specialists. We use paralegals, technology and modern working practices to carry out those tasks that senior lawyers do not need to do and can’t do cost-effectively.
Our advice is always pragmatic and clearly communicated, even in the most complicated circumstances. Legal advice that cannot be easily understood and implemented by our clients, is of limited value to them.
We work hard to maintain the trust of our clients. We don’t take it for granted that they will continue to instruct us. Unless there is excellence across all aspects of our service, we are not meeting our own expectations.
Our Services & Clients
We advise on all aspects of construction law: procurement strategy, contract negotiation, ad hoc contractual issues and dispute resolution. We are specialists in all the main contract forms (JCT, NEC, FIDIC, IChemE etc)
and across all methods of resolving disputes, from adjudication to TCC Litigation, from expert determination to international arbitration. We have considerable experience across most business sectors, whether it’s residential, renewable energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, higher education, sport & leisure and so on.
As we provide specialist services to an industry, we need to understand that industry well, not just the law that applies to it. We need to understand its supply chains, the changing political and financial challenges that it faces, the factors that time and again create disputes, the insurance market and so on.
In the last few years Building Safety has been a specialism that we have needed to add to our expertise and we have done so.
Our clients are mainly mid/large developers and contractors, and high net worth individuals. However we also regularly work for professional consultants, suppliers, sub-contractors and investment funds.
As we provide specialist services to an industry, we need to understand that industry well, not just the law that applies to it. We need to understand its supply chains, the changing political and financial challenges that it faces, the factors that time and again create disputes, the insurance market and so on.
In the last few years Building Safety has been a specialism that we have needed to add to our expertise and we have done so.
Our clients are mainly mid/large developers and contractors, and high net worth individuals. However we also regularly work for professional consultants, suppliers, sub-contractors and investment funds.
Recent Works
A few of the disputes that we have advised our clients on:
- Advising a main engineering contractor in defending a large domestic arbitration for delay in the completion of a waste to energy facility under a heavily amended NEC contract. This dispute involved considerable, complex engineering and programming evidence. There were also related satellite adjudication proceedings with two sub-contractors;
- Advising a large national retailer in litigation against a firm of architects, over their contract administration of the refurbishment of our client’s flagship store under a JCT contract. This litigation involved 3rd party proceedings and appellate proceedings; and
- Advising a main contractor in multiple adjudications against sub-contractors under JCT contracts, regarding the use of defective construction materials across a host of new UK residential sites. These disputes involved the use of complex evidence from the overseas factories where the materials were made and from overseas testing houses.
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What our clients say
Ridgemont successfully delivers plain and honest advice and is consistently as responsive as we need.
Mike McDonald
Byrne Bros (Formwork) Ltd
Ridgemont’s specialist construction law team is a fantastic alternative to using big international law firms: service and expertise are first class.
William McKenna
Luxgrove Capital Partners