Clark Hill’s Construction team represents stakeholders across the construction industry on projects of every size and complexity, including megaprojects with construction costs well in excess of a billion dollars.
Our attorneys combine deep legal experience with backgrounds in engineering, construction management, and contracting, giving us a practical understanding of the business, technical, and operational challenges that drive construction projects. Beyond their legal practice, our lawyers are deeply engaged in the construction industry, serving in leadership positions within industry organizations, contributing to national publications, and speaking on developments that shape the construction marketplace. This involvement keeps us at the forefront of emerging trends and enables us to provide practical, forward-looking advice to help clients manage risk, avoid costly disruptions, and achieve their business objectives.
As a full-service construction practice with a national footprint, we represent participants across the construction process, including owners, developers, design professionals, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers, and other project stakeholders. Whether a client is planning, procuring, constructing, or resolving a project dispute, our team provides practical counsel designed to protect project value and keep matters moving forward.
Our experience spans virtually every major project delivery method, including:
- Design-bid-build
- Construction management (Cost Plus Fee with or without a GMP)
- Traditional and progressive design-build
- Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC)
- Public-private partnerships (P3)
- Integrated project delivery
Representative Projects
Areas of focus within our projects include:
- Commercial, retail, and mixed use
- Industrial, automotive, and manufacturing
- Hospitals and healthcare facilities
- Data centers and other IT projects
- Water, wastewater, and utility infrastructure and treatment
- Correctional facilities
- Airports
- Automated assembly lines and facilities
- Roads, highways, tunnels, and bridges
- Power plants, solar, wind and other renewable energy projects
- Schools and universities
- Stadiums and convention centers
- Theme parks and zoos
- Hotels, casinos, and hospitality
- Dams, waterways, marine construction and dredging
- Federal construction projects
- Multi-family and residential
Clark Hill’s Construction team helps clients identify and resolve claims before disputes disrupt project performance. Regardless of the project type, nature of the dispute, or the dispute-resolution forum, our deep bench of attorneys leads clients to the successful resolution of disputes involving project claims or Requests for Equitable Adjustment (REAs), liens, bonds, arbitration, litigation, mediation, or administrative hearings.
Clark Hill helps owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, and public entities navigate the contractual complexities that come with a construction project, providing counsel in:
- Contract drafting and negotiation
- Requests for proposals/qualifications (RFPs and RFQs)
- Project kickoff, administration, and closeout
- Project claims, liens, and bonds
- Structures, procurement, and delivery strategies
- Federal construction contracting and Federal Acquisition Resolution (FAR) compliance
- Risk-mitigation measures and project controls
- Insurance and bonding
Services Related to the Construction Business
Clark Hill’s Construction team recognizes that construction professionals have business needs that extend beyond the project. As part of our full-service model for clients, we coordinate legal support across disciplines in other practice groups and among jurisdictions:
- Labor and employment, including prevailing wage compliance
- Real Estate
- Insurance and Surety
- Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
- Corporate
- Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Immigration
- Trade and Tariffs
- Banking & Financial Services
- Public Financing
- State and Federal Compliance
- Tax Credits
