Practice Area
Construction
From bottom to top, BHGR’s Construction Group is built to assist our clients efficiently and effectively throughout the lifespan of their construction projects.
BHGR’s Construction Group offers a depth of legal experience with complex horizontal, vertical, and subterranean construction projects. We proudly represent architects, design-build firms, engineers, general contractors, insurers, owners, subcontractors, suppliers, and sureties in public, private, and P3 construction projects throughout the United States and around the world.
Our
services
Contracting & Preconstruction
We assist clients with preconstruction services, including entity creation and corporate governance, bonding, insurance review and selection, and risk identification and management. Our attorneys also negotiate, draft, and review all types of construction contracts, including purchase orders, EPCs, design-build, design-bid-build, CMAR, and concession and development contracts, as well as drop-down and lower-tier subcontracts, frameworks, financing, joint ventures, master services, secondment, and supply agreements.
Contract Administration, Claims Avoidance, & Mid-Performance Disputes
During the construction process, we assist clients with a multitude of contract performance and administration issues. Our attorneys negotiate, draft, and review change orders. We also help our clients address differing site conditions, project delays and impacts, payment disputes, requests for equitable adjustments, warranty work, mechanics’ liens, and terminations. Our team prepares claim submissions and engages in the economical and prompt resolution of mid-performance claims and disputes. We also provide training sessions for our client’s executives and employees to avoid risk and effectively manage issues as they arise during project execution.
Government Contracting
From proposal drafting through the successful conclusion of projects, our attorneys have considerable experience representing contractors in all phases of government contracting with federal, state, regional, and local authorities.
Mediation & Arbitration
Our attorneys have extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution forums. We have represented clients in front of single arbitrators as well as arbitration panels in local, national, and international arbitrations before organizations such as the AAA Construction Panel, AAA Construction Mega Project Panel, and ICC. Some of our attorneys serve as arbitrators for the AAA Construction and/or the AAA Construction Mega Project Panels, giving them unique insight into the arbitration process and best arbitration practices. All our attorneys also have experience guiding clients through the mediation process.
Litigation
Our attorneys are powerful advocates with extensive experience representing construction clients in state and federal courts in a broad range of disputes, including those concerning: acceleration; bid protests; bonds; breaches of contract; CDARA; change orders; commercial construction defects; delays; design defects; disruptions; equitable adjustments; indemnities; insurance; loss of productivity; mechanics’ liens; residential construction defects; sureties; terminations; and warranties.
Our Approach
At BHGR, we reject the use of a one-size-fits-all approach to representing our clients. Instead, we build long-term relationships with repeat clients. We understand that each construction client’s company procedures, best practices, and overall governance are unique. We also know that no two construction projects are alike.
We get to know our clients from the start and learn about their individual business and construction project goals and objectives.
We staff our cases and tailor our legal services to the specific issues and objectives at hand.
We also keep open lines of communication with our clients as their matters progress, providing honest assessment and evaluation each step of the way to enable them to make informed decisions and recalibrate their goals and objectives, if necessary.
Our Construction Team
Partners + Counsel
George Berg Jr. Founding Partner
Justin Berg Partner
Mark Changaris Partner
Nicholas DeBruyne Partner
Camille Joy DeCamp Partner
Geoffrey Gardner Attorney
Azar Khazian Senior Counsel
Larry Myers Partner
Jason Pink Partner
Sally Piskun Partner
Giovanni Ruscitti Chairman + General Counsel
Jack Storti Partner
Jerad West Partner
Associates
Mishal Byrne Associate
Ian Carmen Associate
Ruwendika “Cookie” deSilva Associate
Scott Knight Associate
Shane O’Connor Associate
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