Simon Tolson Email & Phone Number

I am a Solicitor and Chartered Arbitrator. A construction and engineering lawyer with extensive process engineering experience in the UK and overseas. I have been consecutively ranked by Chambers and Partners UK Guide of Construction Solicitors in the top first band league since 2006 to the current edition, they have said, “Simon is a widely respected practitioner in the field, both for his legal ability and for his commitment and knowledge of the construction industry as a whole. He has a leading position in the market…” I am "recommended as leader in the field of construction by Legal 500".Since 1986 I have has specialised in construction law and the disputes generated by the industry including for the last 10 years many arising in the process engineering field. For many years I have prepared and run cases at senior level including 17 major reported cases in the High Court (OR’s/TCC) and Court of Appeal. My matters range from the largest such as the Great Eastern Hotel action against Laing (2002-2005), process engineering disputes here and overseas (2003 to date) on bio-ethanol, LDPE, EVOH, Polystyrene, waste to energy plants, fluidized bed combustion systems, high voltage electrical apparatus disputes, oil and gas terminals, pipelines, floating offshore jetty. Litigation and dispute related work often puts me up front and behind the scenes on many major building projects including Heathrow Terminal 5, Wembley Stadium, White City, NHS Healthcare PFI/SPV disputes and disputes over the engineering of data centres. There is little in disputes in the construction/engineering business I have not been involved with in some way. This includes working on nearly all established derivatives of main (and sub-contract) such as JCT, ICE, NEC, MF/1, FIDIC, IChemE, FCEC/DOM, GC/Works as well as numerous bespoke forms of contract.My aim is to put my clients well ahead of where they were when they first came to see me and keep them ahead.Specialties: Leading construction and engineering lawyer with extensive process engineering experience in the UK and overseas; Practicing Solicitor, Chartered and empanelled Arbitrator, Registered Construction Dispute Adjudicator, Senior Partner of the solicitors Fenwick Elliott LLP, Chairman of the Technology & Construction Solicitors Association. Visiting lecturer to King's College MSc in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution. Supervisor on MSc dissertations.BA (Hons), FCIArb, FFB, APEO,