A Senior Associate in the Property and Infrastructure Disputes team based in London, Francis advises a wide range of clients with a particular focus on the clean energy sector. Francis specialises in construction and engineering disputes with experience in conducting adjudications, arbitrations and County and High Court litigations.

Francis started his career at Freshfields, in the firm’s commercial disputes group before practising as a legal advisor to the UK government on science policy, intellectual property law, and as part of the Vaccine Taskforce. Francis has also worked on secondment within the commercial legal team at Heathrow Airport Limited.

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Admitted

2015: England and Wales

Relevant experience

Acting on behalf of the proprietor of a new office development in a dispute with the developer in relation to delay, defects and claims for additional payment.
Acting on behalf of a specialist supplier of tidal turbines, including at adjudication and in defending proceedings brought in the Technology and Construction Court (TCC).
Acting on behalf of a solar farm developer defending proceedings brought in the TCC arising from damage sustained to infrastructure owned by a water company during the construction of the solar farm.
Acting on behalf of the manufacturer of specialist plant in a factory in the Middle East in defending an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration brought due to alleged failure of the plant to meet contractual performance requirements.
Acting on behalf of a Private Finance Initiative company in relation to a long-running dispute in the TCC arising from the design and construction of two hospitals.