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Provided by Melissa Shipley
Construction, International Arbitration and Energy
Melissa specialises in construction law. Her experience spans litigation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and dispute board proceedings.
Her recent cases have ranged from international energy and infrastructure projects to high-value, legally complex domestic work. She has a wide-ranging international practice: she has worked on disputes involving projects in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, the Caribbean, South America and mainland Europe.
Melissa has extensive experience of delay and extension of time claims, defective design and workmanship claims, variation claims and termination claims.
She frequently appears as sole counsel, against much more senior counsel, and has been led by some of the most highly-regarded construction silks in the country.
Melissa is ranked in Chambers and Partners, Chambers Global, Who’s Who Legal and The Legal 500 for construction.
Technology & Construction Bar Association (TECBAR)
Society of Construction Law (SCL)
The Adjudication Society
Middle Temple
Contributor to Wilmot-Smith on Construction Contracts, Fourth Edition
Provided by Chambers
Melissa Shipley undertakes a wide range of construction-related disputes, including litigation, adjudication and various other forms of ADR. She already has notable experience in disputes arising from energy and infrastructure projects both in the UK and abroad.
Provided by Chambers
Melissa's command of technical and legal issues on large infrastructure projects is exceptional.
She is super-smart. She always goes straight to the key points and her drafting is prompt, efficient and wastes no words.
Melissa's command of technical and legal issues on large infrastructure projects is exceptional.
She is super-smart. She always goes straight to the key points and her drafting is prompt, efficient and wastes no words.
