Biography
Victoria specialises in construction and engineering law. She advises on and drafts documents for construction and engineering projects. Victoria acts for developers, funders, contractors, and consultants on a wide range of developments and has experience across a range of industry sectors including commercial, education, retail and residential.
Victoria also supports existing and new clients affected by the Building Safety Act in respect of existing buildings and new buildings.
Having worked in-house at a global engineering, management, and development consulting firm, Victoria understands the pressures and issues clients face in relation to project delivery. She enjoys advising clients on how they can mitigate contractual risk throughout the project from negotiation to dispute avoidance and clarifying and establishing entitlements under the appointment agreement.
Recent Highlights
- Acting for a College on an extension to its multi-million-pound theatre, refurbishment of a section of a building to create new classrooms and building new catering teaching facilities and classrooms
- Acting for a Council on the redevelopment of its market square
- Acting for a tenant on a £13 million office fit out at a sought-after and prestigious tower office building in the city of London
- Acting for a developer on the conversion of three floors of its central London office space into a data centre and the related refurbishment of its remaining office space
- Acting for a design and build contractor, on numerous commercial projects including the refurbishment of a central London hotel
- Acting for a Stirling Prize winning architect, on the terms of its main and sub-consultant appointments and related novation and collateral warranty agreements on multiple London developments
- Advising an asset manager in connection with cladding remediation projects on a large portfolio of tall residential buildings
- Due diligence on construction documents for lenders funding a development and purchasers purchasing a development.
Publications
- Mitigating the increased risk of insolvency in the construction industry – The Property Institute AQD Magazine, December 2024
- New JCT design & build contract explained – The Construction Index, April 2024
- Principal Designer: Roles and responsibilities – Architecture Magazine, December 2023
- RAAC – what are the implications for schools – Lexology, October 2023
- Limiting and excluding liability in your professional appointments - Architecture Magazine, April 2022
- Building Safety Bill – key considerations for architects - Architecture Magazine, December 2021
- When is a collateral warranty a construction contract? - The Construction Index, August 2021.
