About

Provided by Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP

NWH's design & construction practice provides legal services to 200+ US design firms practicing throughout the country and around the world and to foreign firms practicing in the US.

We assist clients with a range of services including negotiating design and construction agreements, project related issues, registration issues, and ownership transitions. Clients include architects, engineers, landscape architects, interior designers, contractors, and other members of design and construction teams. We are experts in cost-effective dispute resolution, helping clients settle problems informally and representing them in mediation and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

We advise clients through the lifecycle of their firms. We assist with creating the firm, planning for growth, and ownership transitions, acquisitions and mergers; and we prepare the documents to effectuate these transitions.

Clients include:

    • Robert A.M. Stern Architects
    • Payette
    • Diller Scofido + Renfro
    • Pickard Chilton
    • Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
    • Elkus Manfredi Architects
    • MASS Design Group
    • Spagnolo|Gisness
    • Kendall/Heaton Associates
    • Reed Hilderbrand
    • Tsoi Kobus Design
    • Leers Weinzapfel Associates
    • Sasaki
    • Henning Larsen
    • Machado Silvetti
    • OJB
    • Market Square Architects
    • The Galante Architecture Studio
    • ARC / Architectural Resources Cambridge
    • Safdie Architects
    • Jones Architecture
    • Brookline Housing Authority
    • East Boston Community Development Corp.
    • Utile
    • Toshiko Mori Architect

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Construction - Boston

Spotlight

What the Team is Known For

Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP works on a diverse range of construction projects. The team is a go-to for architects and other design professionals in transactional issues such as negotiating services agreements and ownership transitions. The group is available to assist on all phases of a build.

Notable practitioners

Barbara Kessner Landau is a key contact.

Work Highlights

  • Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP assisted a client in negotiating recent contracts for two skyscrapers in the US and an urban mixed-use project in Germany.