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Public and private construction contracts

  • Appeals concerning public and private contracts (litigation or pre-litigation)
  • Assistance and legal advice concerning tenders
  • Litigation cases concerning the MOP law: the law on public project contracting and its relationship to private project management (also referred to as the “loi MOP”)
  • Site completion litigation (final general breakdown, penalties, removal of reservations, additional work required)

Case studies

  • Consulting and general assistance with the framework of a dispute opposing it against a Project Owner (private) at the time of settlement of accounts between parties and establishment of a general breakdown
  • Consulting and assistance to a contractor following extension of the timeframe attributable to breaches of the project management and to interventions of other contractors present at the worksite (indemnification of resulting harm and contestation of late penalties attributable to the contractor by the public project owner)
  • Consulting and assistance to a general contractor within the framework of a court-ordered assessment involving difficulties encountered during the worksite having led to discontinuation of the work
  • Consulting and assistance to a work contractor for collection of its outstanding invoices, with the project owner contesting the capacity of its representative (whose contract had been cancelled) to commit to work on its behalf (theory of the apparent mandate)
  • Consulting and assistance to a contractor within the framework of implementation of its direct action against the Project Owner (law of 31 December 1975 relative to subcontracting)