Peter Parten

Peter works across a wide range of sectors, including office, residential and industrial developments, oil and gas projects, mining developments and infrastructure projects.

Peter is familiar with standard forms, such as FIDIC and JCT, and is experienced in working with bespoke construction contracts. He also advises on the construction aspects of key transaction documents such as facility agreements, direct agreements, SPAs, agreements for lease, DFAs and development agreements.

Peter has spent three months seconded to a major oilfield services company.

• Advising lenders providing development finance on multiple projects and across a range of sectors, including student accommodation, hospitality and residential and inputting into the construction aspects of the related facility agreements.
• Advising a Spanish supplier of cooling equipment on risks under an ACE subcontract for a UK energy from waste facility.
• Advising on development management agreements for projects in Park Lane and Sloane Avenue for a fund investing in real estate developments.

International (non-contentious)

• Advising a cement producer in Kenya on a split onshore/offshore EPC contract for a $37.5m expansion of its cement grinding facility.
• Advising a Brazilian shipbuilder on an EPC subcontract portion for the supply of nine oil tankers with a contract price of c.$90m per tanker.
• Advising a supplier of hydrolysis units on key risks in relation to a supply contract for a hydrogen production facility located in Austria.
• Advising on the bankability of EPC and EPCM contracts, umbrella agreements and other project agreements for a number of project finance transactions in the mining sector. Examples include a uranium mine in Niger and the purchase of a lithium mine in the US.
• Advising a global supplier of mineral fertilizers on an EPC contract and drafting of a precedent set of FIDIC silver book amendments for the same client.
• Advising a Turkish client on the gaps between the FIDIC silver book and the bespoke EPC contract for use on an oil refinery development.
• Advising a Kuwaiti contractor on a significant order of gas turbine parts and an exclusive resale agreement.
• Advising a major oilfield services provider on a number of projects, including a consortium agreement relating to a gas processing facility in Algeria and an EPC subcontract for an early production facility in the black sea.
• Assisting with the drafting of tender documents for mineral tenders and cement tenders for the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum in Afghanistan and assisting with training and capacity building at the Ministry.

Domestic (contentious)

• Advising a contractor on a professional negligence claim in relation to defective building services at a manufacturing facility and the recovery action against the building services subcontractor.
• Advising a contractor on a professional negligence claim with its process engineer in relation to a defective waste processing facility in the United Kingdom.
• Advising a construction joint venture and its insurers on a dispute with a road operator.