Paul Prescott

Construction and Engineering, Energy, Hospitality and Leisure, Infrastructure, Project Development, Real Estate, Transportation, Freight and Logistics

Paul Prescott is a partner and leads the Construction and Dispute Resolution practice in Saudi Arabia. He has more than 20 years' experience, of which more than 10 years have been spent in the Middle East.

He has substantial experience advising government departments, investors, sponsors, developers, lender clients and joint venture contractors on major construction, infrastructure, real estate, hospitality, wastewater, energy and process engineering projects in the Middle East. These have included logistics facilities, airports, road and heavy rail engineering infrastructure, stadia infrastructure and facilities, hotels, mixed-used developments, independent sewage treatment plants, renewable energy projects and food manufacturing plants in the Middle East and globally.

Paul has extensive knowledge and in-depth experience of standard form contracts for the procurement of construction and engineering projects using the FIDIC suite of contracts, NEC, ICC, ICE, MF/1 and LOGIC. He has considerable experience advising clients on PPP arrangements, EPC arrangements, framework agreements and target cost arrangements.

He also assists clients in resolving disputes, including supporting them in achieving successful outcomes with the use of ADR techniques, which include mediation, expert determination and arbitration. He leads our arbitration practice in Saudi Arabia.

Paul is ranked in Chambers Global for four consecutive years and has a Building Information Modelling Project Management certificate from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).