Rebecca Evans

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Rebecca is a construction and engineering lawyer, specialising in transactional construction work, with a focus on international projects.

She reviews, drafts and negotiates bespoke and standard form construction contracts (including those based on FIDIC, NEC and JCT), professional appointments, security instruments and ancillary documentation. In addition, she provides strategic advice to clients at the procurement stage and during the construction and operational stages of projects. While Rebecca primarily has experience acting for principals and main contractors, she has also acted for subcontractors, consultants, financiers and receivers and managers. She has worked on projects in a number of jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, Australia and the Middle East, and across a wide variety of sectors.

Despite her specialism in transactional construction work, Rebecca also has experience in contentious work, having advised clients on a number of major construction disputes. Her experience includes providing strategic advice on managing claims for significant construction projects in Australia, adjudication under the Australian security of payment legislation and other alternative dispute resolution processes.

Rebecca is an Australian Legal Practitioner. Having obtained her qualifications in Queensland, Australia and been admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2011, she currently holds a Western Australian Practising Certificate.

Experience

• Advising a Tier 1 UK contractor on its tender for the utilities and civils lots in respect of a new infrastructure delivery programme for the Sellafield nuclear decommissioning project (based on NEC4).
• Preparing project specific subcontracts (works and services) for a Tier 1 UK contractor on several UK government projects (based on JCT and NEC4). 
• Advising a Tier 1 UK contractor on three separate contracts for the redevelopment of several technology centres in Pangbourne (based on JCT).
• Preparing a project specific subcontract for a Tier 1 UK contractor on a project for the construction of highways, bridges and infrastructure works at Milton Keynes East (based on NEC4).
• Advising a Tier 1 UK contractor on reviews of numerous call-off contracts for Severn Trent Water’s AMP7 framework (based on NEC4).
• Advising a Tier 1 UK contractor on the design, construction and commissioning of a circa £475m Gigaplant at IAMP, Sunderland (based on JCT).
• Advising a Tier 1 UK contractor on its tenders for Network Rail’s CP7 Buildings and Civils Renewals Frameworks for the Wales and Western Region and the Eastern Region (based on NEC4). 
• Advising an international contractor on an EPC contract for an energy from waste project in Doncaster (based on IChemE).
• Advising one of the UK’s leading home improvement retailers on the design and construction of an LNG refuelling facility at Doncaster (based on MF/1).
• Advising a joint venture of three leading international contractors on the design and construction for a £1bn tunnel project in London (bespoke).
• Preparing a bespoke suite of construction and consultancy contracts for the development of a major luxury tourist destination in the Middle East (based on FIDIC).
• Preparing project specific subcontracts for a Tier 1 UK contractor for the new Guildford Sewerage Treatment Works (based on IChemE).
• Advising a leading international boiler supplier on a major supply agreement in respect of an energy from waste facility in Aberdeen (bespoke).
• Preparing project specific subcontracts for a Tier 1 UK contractor for the Gatwick Airport Station Development Project (based on NEC3).
• Preparing an EPCM contract and a construction only contract for a gas to liquid plant in Trinidad and Tobago (based on FIDIC).
• Advising an international oil services company on strategy, guidance and precedents in relation to EPC contracts for its production facilities (based on FIDIC).
• Advising a joint venture between an international energy corporation and a national oil company on EPC contracts for floating storage and offloading units (bespoke). 
• Preparing project specific subcontracts for a tier one contractor for the Crossrail Anglia Residual Works (based on NR9).