Sachin Shah

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Sachin is an English qualified associate in the Global Projects & Construction Group with experience working on both contentious and non-contentious construction law matters. His contentious experience includes advising on both international and domestic projects and construction disputes, as well as mediations.

Sachin has a background in Environmental Science and has advised on large scale energy from waste projects and other renewable energy matters both in the UK and overseas.

On the transactional side, Sachin has experience drafting and negotiating project documents on large PPP/PFI projects.

Sachin champions the firm’s global campaign on Resilience and Climate Change Risk, and regularly produces thought pieces on climate-change and renewable energy related issues, with a focus on infrastructure. His most recent article which he co-authored regarding the decommissioning of oil rigs in the North Sea was recently published in the International Energy Law Review as well as Practical Law.

Experience

• Advising a Government on arbitration claims relating to the design and construction of a civil engineering project in the Caribbean.
• Acting for a listed house-building company on the negotiations of remedial works contracts and application of the DLUHC’s self-remediation terms.
• Defending a global engineering group on a GBP 250m construction claim regarding an Energy-from-Waste plant in the UK.
• Acting for a project company on operational variations to hospital projects in the UK.
• Advising an international contractor on a EUR 20m claim brought against it by stakeholders, regarding defects to an extradosed bridge, which is currently in multi-party mediation.
• Advising an international property investment firm on the re-development of a commercial space worth GBP 90m.
• Advising a state-owned defence facility on amendments to a Framework Agreement and application of heavily amended NEC Contract Terms. 
• Negotiating and drafting Conditions of Contract in relation to a major offshore wind-farm project in Taiwan.

Publications

• UK Practical Law – Thomson Reuters: Climate Change and the Construction Industry