Construction

CHEYSSON MARCHADIER & ASSOCIES provides advice and assistance during construction work, particularly:

  • private (social or institutional lessors, investment funds) and public (municipalities, public institutions, semi-public companies) building owners
  • project manager representative, assistant to the contracting authority
  • construction companies (general contractors and subcontractors)
  • contracting authority and consultancy firms

CHEYSSON MARCHADIER & ASSOCIES works alongside these different real estate agents in order to provide solutions to legal issues, and also to strategic issues they face when planning and carrying out their projects.

CHEYSSON MARCHADIER & ASSOCIES’ expertise in construction law and its deep understanding of the life of a building site and of the work, as well as insurance-related matters, enable the firm to fully comprehend the risks all the different parties may face (owners, contractors, architects).

Throughout the projects, CHEYSSON MARCHADIER & ASSOCIES intervenes both before the construction starts in order to assist its clients during the pre-contractual stage of drafting contract documents, and after construction work completion in order to prepare the final general breakdown.

CHEYSSON MARCHADIER & ASSOCIES is also able to intervene in amicable dispute resolutions, whether it’d be in the building process or at its end, particularly for claims and liability claims.

Construction Law

  • Provide advice and assistance during contract due diligence, drafting and negotiation: construction agreements, sub-contracting, general contracting, assistance in general contracting, contracting management, co-contracting and consortiums
  • Property development contracts, sale prior to completion (VEFA), contracts for renovation work
  • Implement summary proceedings, preventive expertise, legal assistance and representation (assessments, consultations or judicial expertise)
  • Preventive management of conflicts and amicable dispute resolutions
  • Architect’s status

Public and Private Construction Contracts, General Contractor Agreements, General Contracting Assistant Agreement, Sub-Contracting

  • Provide advice and assistance in contractual management: insurance, establishment of guarantees, instructions, amendments, pro rata accounts, works locations, acceptances, delay penalty, unexpected constraints, additional works

Constructor’s Liability and Claims 

  • Provide advice and assistance during public or private procurement contract execution (worksite abandonment, insolvency proceedings, collective proceedings, collapse, etc.)
  • Manage compensation litigations and financial claims
  • Analyse and apply the insurance guarantee schemes
  • Actions taken in compensation of damages (10-year guarantee) and challenged liability