Adriana Badescu

About

I am an ex-City senior commercial solicitor with over 10 years’ experience in the general commercial and construction industry.

I provide “City” quality legal services as freelance Consultant to small and medium businesses. I currently collaborate as Senior Consultant with the Alston Asquith Commercial/Corporate team.

I offer a full range of legal services to facilitate the agreements and/or arrangements between employers and contractors/sub-contractors or members of the professional teams.

My knowledge and experience mean I understand the issues my clients face and I work as an integral part of my clients' team to deliver projects across the real estate, energy, transport and infrastructure, IT/software, B2B sectors and more.

I regularly draft and negotiate commercial contracts (including software/reseller agreements, service contracts, non disclosure agreements, terms and conditions for the provisions of goods/services, distribution agreements etc.) and construction contracts (including building contracts, professional team appointments, collateral warranties, bonds and guarantees) for business owners, managing directors, project sponsors, employers, contractors, suppliers, professional consultants, developers and funders.

I am familiar with all forms of construction contracts including JCT, FIDIC and NEC4. I have extensive Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) experience advising on large-scale infrastructure projects.

I provide an “end to end” project solution for clients from procurement, negotiation, contracting and delivery, to risk mitigation, to ultimately adjudication and litigation.

I’m here to help your business grow.

That means getting to know you, understanding your objectives and being open and honest about what we can achieve.

For further information or to discuss a matter, please call me on: +34 642179206 or click on the following link to email me: https://www.adrialegalservices.com/contact-adriana-construction-law-expert/

For more details about my services/experience and for recent client feedback, please feel free to have a look at my website. I regularly post articles on the blog page of my site, which may be of interest: https://www.adrialegalservices.com/

I am a qualified solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. During my time as a City solicitor, I worked in London for Ashurst LLP, Dentons UKMEA and Bevan Brittan LLP.

Expertise

Corporate/Commercial

• A rapidly growing estimating, procurement and quantity surveying specialists, in relation to a series of professional consultancy appointments and terms and conditions for the supply of services.
- A smart app and cloud services developer, in relation to multiple Software Reseller Agreements and Collaboration Agreements.
- A well-established expert witness and medicolegal court reports specialists, in relation to their professional consultancy appointments and GDPR compliance policies.

- Advising a UK utilities company in its capacity as Employer in relation to an alliancing strategy and implementation.
• Advising a major UK retailer in its capacity as Employer on several Automated Storage and Materials Handling Facilities.
• Completed a due diligence exercise/report for a bidder, consisting of reviewing corporate documentation of 11 companies in relation to the potential acquisition of an equity interest in SeaEnergy Renewables Limited, an entity with rights to develop both exclusively and in partnership with joint venturers a number of offshore wind farms in Scotland and Taiwan.

Construction Development

• A multi-discipline Civil Engineering sub-contractor, in relation to responding to adjudication proceedings brought by its sub-sub-contractor.
- A multi-discipline Civil Engineering sub-contractor, in relation to a commercial dispute regarding an equipment hire agreement.

- Advising a major property and leisure management, development and regeneration company on its professional consultants appointments in its role as development manager for multiple developments with a local authority.
• Advising a local authority on its development agreement, building contract and related documentation to deliver a new multiplex cinema, including two restaurants and upper floor leisure/employment space.

Energy/renewables and PFI/PPP

• Advising an international waste management company in its capacity as SPV/EPC Contractor on three of their major waste PFI schemes in the UK.
• Advising Canadian Solar on the EPC and O&M Contracts in relation to a number of solar power plants in the UK.
• Advising the Lenders on the Cornwall EfW PFI Project.
• Advising a Swedish EfW developer and operator on its Eastern Europe energy from waste project.
• Advising the SPV and EPC Contractor on the North London Waste Authority (NWLA) fuel use procurement during ISFT (part of NWLA £3 billion waste PFI scheme).

Transport

• Advising a Turkish consortium in its capacity as sponsor for a project for a 22-year concession to BOT a 420 km road between Izmir and Gebze in Turkey, in relation to the structuring of its construction contract related security package/bonds.

Infrastructure

• Advising the developer in relation to two residential housing projects for the Government of an African country.
• Advising the Lender on the employer's conditions of contract for construction and particular conditions of contract amending the FIDIC Red Book in relation to the Jabi Lake Mall Project in Nigeria.

Education

• Advising Hackney Schools for the Future Limited in developing the design and construction contracts for the development of Phase 2 of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in Hackney.
• Advising Balfour Beatty Capital Projects Ltd in its capacity as sponsor in relation to the £57 million BSF project Phase 2 in Southwark.
• Advising a Skanska-led consortium in its capacity as sponsor in relation to the £90 million BSF project in Essex.

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