Melissa Shipley

Practice Areas

Construction, International Arbitration and Energy

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

Technology & Construction Bar Association (TECBAR)

Society of Construction Law (SCL)

The Adjudication Society

Middle Temple

Publications

Contributor to Wilmot-Smith on Construction Contracts, Fourth Edition