Bob Maynard

Consultant

About

Bob Maynard has wide experience in litigation, arbitration, adjudication, ADR processes particularly mediation, project advisory and forensic investigation work for domestic and international clients from all sides of the engineering and construction industry.

He has particular experience in handling disputes for utilities (water and electricity), the nuclear industry, energy and natural resources, and transport, as well as large, multiparty commercial property disputes, and large leisure, retail and office developments.

Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural Resources Infrastructure, Construction and Transport Real Estate Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations

Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

Advising a major U.S. power supplier in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings against a very large European contractor in a USD100 million plus, dispute concerning the design and construction of a lignite-fired power station in an eastern European country. The case went to a 4 week hearing before being settled.
Advising a major French contractor in a dispute concerning a port development in the Middle East. The dispute involved dispute adjudication board proceedings, two mediations, an ICC arbitration which went through to a two week hearing and satellite litigation in three different jurisdictions.
Advising a major Korean contractor in an LCIA arbitration commenced against it in relation to a power and desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. The case involved the hearing of several preliminary issues, including relating to complex issues of conflict of substantive and procedural English and Saudi laws and proceeded to a two week hearing.
Advising a Russian commercial property developer in a USD90 million ICC arbitration against a major Turkish contractor in relation to the construction of a prestige 13 story commercial office complex in central Moscow, through to a two week hearing in Geneva.
Advising a U.S. contractor in relation to potential delay and disruption claims arising under two of its sub-contracts for the mechanical and piping work and civils and tanks work at a high profile LNG facility.
The collapse of the partially constructed tunnel supporting the construction of a new supermarket at Gerrards Cross and the resulting blockage of the Chiltern Rail line into London was very widely reported in the national media. Advising one of the U.K.’s largest retailers concerning the considerable and wide-ranging consequences of the tunnel collapse and the many claims arising out of the incident. This was a highly complex multi-party dispute. With 10 parties involved, we had to take a fresh look at mediation and implement and manage an innovative structured process which took place over a number of months. The matter was favourably settled without recourse to formal proceedings in what otherwise was set to become one of the largest disputes to be heard in the TCC.
Advising a previously publicly-owned entity (by then privatised) in a GBP60 million dispute with the contractor relating to the decommissioning of a major nuclear facility in the U.K. under an NEC contract, through to a successful settlement and involving adjudication.
Advising one of the U.K.’s largest international contractors right through to a TCC trial, making new law relating to economic duress.
Advising a large U.K. water company in respect of its claim for damages against the contractor and sub¬contractors arising out of a defective sequence batch reactor at a major city sewage treatment works, the trial of which lasted 3 months in the TCC and subsequently went to the Court of Appeal.
Advising a UK-based specialist electrical contractor in successive adjudications concerning various issues arising under an NEC contract. In the enforcement proceedings, following the first adjudication, the TCC handed down an important decision in respect of the late issuing of the adjudicators’ decisions.

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Education

Latymer Upper School

Bristol University, LLB, Hons, 1984

Awards