I am involved in contract administration, project delivery and dispute resolution across all sectors of the infrastructure and construction industry. This has included acting for and advising clients in respect of adjudications (in all Australian jurisdictions), mediations, expert determinations, arbitrations (both domestic and international) and litigation.

I have acted for clients on renewable (solar, wind, pumped-hydro and battery), utility (water, electricity and gas), transport (rail and road), hospital, mining, commercial and residential building and mixed-use development projects. In particular, with the energy transition, I have a keen interest in renewable energy projects and have assisted clients in navigating variation, construction delay, registration, grid interface and performance issues across the sector.

I provide strategic commercial advice to help deliver client-focused solutions. I enjoy working closely with project, commercial and legal teams and seek to tailor my approach to the nature of the claim or dispute.

Career highlights

• Solar projects: Advised and represented an EPC Contractor on the delivery of various solar farm projects throughout Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. Issues involved construction delay, registration/grid interface issues and commissioning delays, harmonic issues, defects and performance.
• Major renewable project: Acting in variation and delay disputes concerning a major renewable project.
• International power station arbitration: Advised a joint venture EPC contractor on a large international arbitration concerning delay and variation claims in respect of the engineering, construction and commissioning of a geothermal plant.
• Transmission line arbitration: Acting for a contractor in a domestic arbitration concerning a major transmission line project.
• Supreme Court piling dispute: Acting for a head contractor in relation to a piling dispute with its subcontractor concerning latent conditions and the availability of geotechnical information.
• Adjudications: Successfully bringing, and defending against, adjudication applications (for amounts ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to one of the largest single claims through the security of payment legislation to date).
• VCAT proceedings: Defending domestic builders and consultants in respect of claims brought by owners corporations' in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal concerning domestic building work.

• First tranche of proposed changes to Victoria's Security of Payment legislation
  

  The Building Legislation Amendment (Fairer Payments on Jobsites and Other Matters) Bill 2025 (Bill) was read for a second time in Victoria's Legislative Assembly on 11 September 2025.

• Changes to Victoria's Security of Payment Act have passed Parliament
  

  The Building Legislation Amendment (Fairer Payments on Jobsites and Other Matters) Bill 2025 (Bill) has passed Parliament in Victoria. It awaits Royal Assent, with SOP Act changes effective from 1 Sept 2026 unless proclaimed earlier.

• Façade Treatment Engineering Pty Ltd (in liq) v Brookfield Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd [2016] VSCA 247
  

  The case makes it clear that a person who is in liquidation has no entitlement under part 3 of the SOP Act to compel payment of a payment claim. The case also clarifies that a payment schedule must have sufficient information to enable the claimant to understand why the claim has been rejected.

   

• High Court limits the availability of quantum meruit claim following repudiation of a building contract
  

  The Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32 decision marks a change in the legal position in Australia with respect to whether, following termination for repudiation, a builder may elect to claim damages for breach of contract or sue on a quantum meruit for the fair and reasonable value of the work performed.

• Payment claims served early no longer valid | MKA Bowen v Carelli Constructions [2019] VSC 436
  

  This decision marks a change in the legal position in Victoria with respect to the early service of payment claims under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 (Vic).

• Applying the prevention principle and the implied duty to cooperate
  

  Victoria's Court of Appeal has delivered an important judgment on the relationship between the prevention principle and the implied duty to cooperate.

• 2021 ACICA Arbitration Rules and Expedited Arbitration Rules
  

  We outline the key changes included in the 2021 Arbitration Rules and what this means for the construction industry.

• Another adjudication determination quashed for jurisdictional error
  

  Clough Projects Australia Pty Ltd v Floreani [2018] WASC 101 is significant as it confirms that an adjudicator may adjudicate more than one payment dispute between parties, without the consent of the parties, where the adjudicator is satisfied that doing so will not adversely affect his or her ability to adjudicate the dispute fairly and as quickly, informally and inexpensively as possible.