Construction & Developers

CONTRACTS

• Advising on appropriate procurement routes responding to regulatory, funding and commercial drivers
• Contract reviews advising on how to de-risk your involvement in a project
• Drafting according to who is best placed to deliver elements of the project and industry standard norms
• Negotiating in a manner that moves towards agreement, rather than entrenching the parties

TENDER SERVICES

We can provide clients with tender-related services, including:

• Bidding
• Public Procurement and OJEU including TUPE
• Creation of a full suite of bespoke tender documentation for your business as most appropriate
• Review and support of specific tender processes
• Risk management and mitigation
• Tender training

CLAIMS AVOIDANCE

• Advising at strategic pinch-points so that any issues are kept proportionate to the desired end result
• Helping you to obtain the right expert advice at the right time so that you are aware of the risks your business faces
• Employing negotiation and ADR methods in order to narrow down issues, resolve them where possible and minimise the disruption to your business

CLAIMS RESOLUTION

• Reviewing, assessing the merits, advising and employing the most effect strategy to resolve outstanding claims
• Bringing finality to adjudication decisions and other temporarily binding agreements at court
• Enforcing judgments so that you get paid

EXTERNAL TRAINING

We can offer external training seminars for you and your colleagues on a range of different subjects. The seminars can be bespoke to your individual needs and conducted either in house or at our offices.

“BPE has committed time and effort to
understand our business and our future
strategic vision.They have used this gained
knowledge to integrate themselves
into our business providing support,
no nonsense advice and assisting us
to network with potential clients. BPE
has really helped us in developing and
strengthening our business.” Paul Halfpenny, Managing Director, Britannia.

EMPLOYERS

Horiba UK, Pure Gym, Holiday Inn Express,
SPM Homes,
Reaseheath College, The Cheltenham Ladies' College,
CBP Swindon, Morai Capital Investments,
Gloucestershire Airport, AWS Power.

FUNDERS

NatWest, Barclays, Lloyds, Temporis Capital.

DESIGN TEAMS

RRA Architects, The Renewable Design Company, Vitruvius Management Services, Construction Logistics Services, Design Installation Service, Illman Young Landscape Design.

CONTRACTORS

Tencate Geosynthetics UK, Fabric Architecture, Gilpin
Demolition, Robert Cole Civil Engineering, Manstal
Construction, Speller Metcalfe, Britannia Construction, Markey Group, ATEC Security, Allcooper, CF Roberts, ILEC, John Perkins Construction, Architectural Products, Smiths of Gloucester, Converge Networks.

BIOGEST ENERGIE
UND WASSTERTECHNIK GMBH

Biogest is an international AD plant manufacturer with its headquarters in Austria and further offices in the UK, Italy, Romania, Serbia and the Czech Republic. The core competencies of Biogest range from project development, planning and financing to turnkey construction and operation of plants with an electrical output of between 100 kW and 3,500 kW.

We are Biogest's legal adviser for the design and installation of anaerobic digestion plants in the UK, ranging from clusters of 120KW in Scotland to a 24MW in Devon. Procurement routes include IChemE Red Book, MF/1 and bespoke delivery agreements.
We assisted the client with its suite of security bonds, which had to be heavily negotiated with their Austrian bank to be accepted both in Vienna and the UK.

In conjunction with DLA Piper in Vienna, we also advise on cross jurisdiction issues including, for instance, the client's security package from its funders to their customers.

Matter value: £500,000 - £4.5m per site.

"We found the team at BPE a real
pleasure to work with and always
available when we needed them, their
pragmatic approach meant we knew
our projects were in safe hands. The
international aspect of our work was also
no problem for them and they handled
everything effectively and efficiently." 
Martin Schlerka CEO, Biogest, Energie und
Wassertechnik GmbH

FABRIC ARCHITECTURE

Contract advice for retractable roof design and installation at the Fan Zone, Katara Cultural Village, Doha.

Our client is a leader in tensile fabric structures. We were pleased to advise on its contractual relations with a US contractor for the delivery of the Fan Zone in Qatar.

Negotiations were critical to our client for the ongoing nature of the relationship whilst protecting it from a design liability point of view.

We continue to support Fabric's expansion into the Middle East with local lawyers in the countries they operate.

Matter Value: Multi-million

PURE GYM

Contract advice for UK roll out

We have advised Pure Gym since 2009 when it opened its first gym in Spinningfields, Manchester, and have advised two of the directors in the growth and disposal of Golden Tulip hotel chain (subsequently sold to Whitbread). We advised on contract negotiations for over 80 sites around the UK during their impressive roll-out of the key fob access gym model.

Our involvement includes drafting JCT contracts and ancillary documents for the fit outs with institutional landlords as well as any further contractual input once works are underway.

Matter value: typically £600,000 per site

Boultbee Brooks Real Estate

Boultbee Brooks Real Estate (BBRE) is an entrepreneurial, family owned business led by Clive Boultbee Brooks. The company, which deals with
property investment and development, has an impressive track record spanning over 27 years, with total transactions of more than £5 billion in
the UK and Europe.

Our property team has acted for BBRE since April 2014, handling many of the company's
investment acquisitions, disposals, agreements and leases. In its first year alone, we supported
BBRE with more than £70m worth of investments and development work, including the letting and
sale of Rivington House in London, LK Bennett's new 16,000 sq ft head office.