Charles Brien Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Acting for waste contractor in successfully challenging proposed award of circa £500 million waste contract, including successfully protecting automatic suspension at the Court of Session, first in Scotland• Acting for same waste contractor in successfully challenging proposed award of contract circa £10 million without having to go to court• Acting for prosthesis manufacturer in successfully challenging, at the Court of Session, proposed award of £100 million contract for artificial hips and knee. This work involved four court actions and resulted in client being awarded a long term contract.• Acting for environmental consultants in successfully challenging proposed award of contract by Westminster Department. Action raised in Technology and Construction Court and settled soon after raising to clients’ benefit• Acting for Government Agency on all forms of procurement, including running of complete procurement, including competitive dialogue. Successfully responding to queries that had been raised such that over seven year period no court applications had been made.• Lead team in successfully completing Schools PFI Project in England with value of £140 million• Assisted team in Scottish Schools PFI Project with value of £180 million, concentrating on FM Contract• Leading team in completion of Street Lighting PFI contract with value of £40 million• Providing non-contentions construction advice to assist Commercial Property and Banking Departments in acquisition, disposal and funding of portfolios of properties with values of up to £150 million• Providing particular non-contentions construction advice to Clients in relation to specific construction issues including procurement route to be adopted, appointments of professional teams and drafting amendments to construction contracts• Generally advising on procurement and in particular compliance with EU rules advising both public and private sector clients

Dunfermline, United Kingdom

Senior Commercial Lawyer• Directly responsible for provision of legal services to three internal Directorates, Commercial Services; Business Services and Finance• Lead team with regard to Asset Delivery Project; partnering contract in excess of £1.5Bn, forming joint venture company with two private sector consortia for delivery of Capital Asset Programme• Company secretary of joint venture company• Advising on nine PFI schemes at differing levels of maturity• Construction law advice including litigation, arbitration and mediation• Procurement – both strategic and tactical • Drafting commercial contracts• Report Directly to Chairman, Chief Executive and relevant Directors

Livingston, United Kingdom

Originally hired as Senior Solicitor and regularly promoted finally to Senior Principal Solicitor full responsibility for team involved in leasing and disposing of industrial assets; and all litigation• Concluded individual disposal of all corporate assets up to value of £9m projects• Member of team which produced policy and contractual documents for disposal of all non-commercial and industrial assets• Concluded disposal of non-commercial and industrial assets valued at £100m• Reported directly to Chief Executive to ensure orderly and timeous disposal of commercial and industrial assets• Deputised for Corporation Secretary in all matters as required with full functional responsibility• Awarded annual performance measured bonus payment• Applied analytical skills to identify and resolve real practical problems• Acted in all litigation including Arbitrations with values up to £3m• Drafted and revised documentation in respect of procurement and letting of contracts

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.) (Construction)

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.) Honours

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