The Projects and Construction Review - Edition 1
To meet the demands of the world's growing population, large-scale investment is needed across a broad spectrum of basic industries, including oil and gas, minerals and other natural resources, telecommunications, petrochemicals, transportation and power. Neither governments nor the private sector on their own can meet fully the demand for investment on this scale. To be successful, investment projects may need to amass funding and other commitments from a combination of public and private sector participants and involve ever more sophisticated financing arrangements.
As the pace of investment has accelerated, so has the scale of individual projects. Notably, with exploration for resources being driven to increasingly remote locations, the cost of extracting those resources has risen, resulting in ever larger financings. There is, therefore, a growing need for lawyers capable of structuring innovative and complex transactions.
Although there is an increased perception that project financing and construction law are global issues, the local flavour offered by these leading experts in 26 countries show that in order to understand the world, we must first comprehend what happens in our own communities; to further advance our understanding of global law, we must acquire local knowledge.
About the Editor
Júlio César Bueno has been a partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados since 2001. He is based in São Paulo and has considerable national and international experience focusing on the practice of construction law and engineering contracts, project finance, public procurement EPCs and alliance deals, as well on arbitrations, mediations and dispute boards.
He represents some of the world's largest organisations (owners, multilateral agencies, financial institutions, contractors and developers) in their global infrastructure and construction projects located throughout Brazil and the rest of Latin America as well as Africa. He assists clients across the entire project spectrum, commencing at project conception and continuing through punch list completion and beyond. Some recent examples include gas facilities, power plants (nuclear, coal-fired, gas-fired, combined cycle, hydro), wind farms, steel manufacturing facilities, copper mining facilities, coal mining facilities and ports.
He is a member of the Society of Construction Law (SCL) and the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) and acts as officer of the International Bar Association's international construction law committee (ICP) and the International Bar Association's Latin American Regional Forum (LARF). He is also a member of the São Paulo Engineering Institute Arbitration and Mediation Chamber and the Brazilian Institute of Civil Procedure Law (IBDP).
He holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo Law School (LLB 1991); a master's degree from the University of Cambridge Law School (LLM 1995); and a doctorate from the University of São Paulo Law School (PhD 2001). He has published several articles published on matters related to civil procedure law, infrastructure and construction law.
He is recommended in Who's Who Legal (for construction, project finance, public procurement and defence product liability); Chambers Latin America (for construction and projects, dispute resolution and defence product liability); Practical Law Company (for construction and projects); and Análise da Advocacia's directory of Brazil's 'most admired' lawyers (for construction and projects, dispute resolution, public procurement and defence product liability).
Acknowledgements
The publisher acknowledges and thanks the following for their learned assistance throughout the preparation of this book:
International Project Finance
- Phillip Fletcher and Andrew Pendleton
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Dispute Resolution in Construction Projects
- Robert S Peckar
- Peckar & Abramson, PC
Relationship Contracting
- Doug Jones
- Clayton Utz
Argentina
- Pedro Nicholson
- Estudio Beccar Varela
Belgium
- Rony Vermeersch and Diederik De Block
- Stibbe
Brazil
- Júlio César Bueno
- Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Canada
- John S Haythorne, Ron Stuber and Karen Martin
- Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Chile
- Victor Ríos Salas and Carlos Molina Zaldívar
- Molina Ríos Abogados
Colombia
- Carlos Umaña Trujillo, Maria Luisa Porto Fox and Sebastian Ocampo Valencia
- Brigard & Urrutia Abogados
Costa Rica
- Vicente Lines and Eduardo Zúñiga
- Arias & Muñoz
Cyprus
- George Z Georgiou, Georgios S Ioannou, Eleni Prodromou and Elena Socratous
- George Z Georgiou & Associates LLC
Denmark
- Torben Schøn
- Bech-Bruun
France
- Marc Frilet
- Frilet Société d’Avocats
Israel
- Sharon Adler and Tamar Firon Smorodinsky
- M. Firon & Co Advocates
Italy
- Francesco Sanna, Anna Amprimo and Carolina Arroyo Castillo
- DLA Piper
Japan
- Tetsuya Itoh, Reiji Takahashi and Naoki Iguchi
- Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune
Mexico
- Juan Carlos Serra
- Basham, Ringe y Correa, SC
Netherlands
- Coen Thomas and Frédérique Jacobse
- Allen & Overy LLP
Peru
- José Antonio Honda
- Estudio Olaechea
Portugal
- Teresa Empis Falcão and Frederico Quintela
- Vieira de Almeida & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL
Russia
- Vitaly Mozharowski, Simon Allan, Andrey Shpak, Vladimir Tchikine, Arthur Abouzov and Svetlana Savina
- Goltsblat BLP
South Africa
- Anton Barnes-Webb, Rob Morson and Daryn Webb
- Bowman Gilfillan
Switzerland
- Thomas Mueller-Tschumi and Francis Nordmann
- Walder Wyss Ltd
Taiwan
- Frank Kung and Chia-Yi Liu
- Liang & Partners Law Office
United Arab Emirates
- Leonora Riesenburg
- Galadari & Associates
United Kingdom
- David Brynmor Thomas and Angus Dawson
- Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers
USA
- Carolina Walther-Meade, Karen Wong and Christopher Chwang
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Uruguay
- Beatriz Spiess
- Guyer & Regules
Venezuela
- Pedro Ignacio Sosa Mendoza, Pedro Luis Planchart, Luis Alfredo Araque, Carolina Puppio González, Verónica Díaz Hernández and Rodrigo Moncho Stefani
- Araque Reyna Sosa Viso & Asociados
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