Addleshaw Goddard bolsters GCC Construction practice

Nic, James & Luke

Addleshaw Goddard has bolstered its GCC Construction practice with three new hires, growing the market-leading team to nine specialist lawyers.
Further consolidating AG’s status as one of the largest and most active Construction practices in the region, the new hires will be based in the Firm’s Oman and Dubai offices.
Joining the Oman office as a managing associate, experienced litigator Nic Henrikson has acted for a range of construction and insurance sector entities, including: principals, major contractors, blue chip insurers and government entities. Previously at top tier Australian firm, Minter Ellison, Nic acted on some of the largest construction adjudications to date in Queensland.

With a breadth of contentious and non-contentious experience, James Macdonald and Luke Johnson will join AG’s Dubai office as associates. Joining from Eversheds, Johnson specialises in advising Contractor and Employer clients across the UK and GCC and his experience includes: adjudications, mediations, litigation and negotiated settlements covering issues such as design defects and changes, delay claims, late payment issues, final accounts and termination. Most recently working in-house for a major regional contractor, Macdonald has been in the GCC for nine years, and has advised government bodies, contractors and subcontractors on public works projects, mixed use developments, ports, shopping malls and airports.

Head of the GCC Andrew Greaves, commented, “We continue to advise a full spread of clients across the region and we are proud that we are able to continue to strengthen our position in the market and attract quality lawyers to our team.
Nic, James and Luke have impressive skill-sets, which will enable us to continue to enhance our sector focus and compliment the investment we have already made into our UAE construction practice.”
With work spanning the entire GCC, AG’s construction team regularly advises government bodies, developers, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, suppliers and funders on a broad range of matters, and has appeared in all the major centres for International Arbitration. The team has a market-leading position in the Transport and Energy sectors.