LLB, LLM, Solicitor (Republic of Ireland), Solicitor (England and Wales, non-practising), Attorney at Law (New York)
Alan is a partner of LDR Construction Consultants and a construction lawyer. He is a qualified Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland (since 2007), an Attorney at Law in New York (since 2010) and a Solicitor (non-practising) in England and Wales (since 2016). He is also a FIDIC accredited Adjudicator, who has been called to the President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators. He has worked in the construction industry since 2009, much of it hands-on, site-based work in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Alan has advised on the successful resolution of over €3 billion in disputes to date, mainly as party representative on the contractor side, and has advised extensively on the FIDIC, ICC and NEC forms of construction contract, as well as the Danish ABT 93 conditions. He has prepared and presented referrals to adjudication, dispute boards and arbitration, including ICSID arbitration.
His experience covers earthworks, motorways, pumped storage schemes, civil and building construction, dams, waste-to-energy plants, bridges, airports, water-retaining structures, pipelines, concrete structures, road surfacing and railways. His claims work includes delay and disruption, extensions of time, prolongation, variations, measurement and valuation, design obligations, final accounts, price escalation and termination.
He started his career with a leading Irish law firm before joining LDR as a consultant, and later as a partner. Alan has provided advice pre-contract and contract management services during the course of projects, on both main contracts and subcontracts, and has advised Irish county councils on construction projects.
Alan’s articles have been published in the Law Society of Ireland Gazette (on NEC3 and FIDIC contracts), the Hibernian Law Journal and Intellectual Asset Management magazine, and he is a contributing author to Older People in Modern Ireland (First Law). He holds an LLB from Griffith College Dublin and an LLM from Trinity College Dublin.
