We provide practical, strategic advice to developers, head contractors, subcontractors, engineers, and consultants across the infrastructure, commercial, residential, mining, and renewable energy sectors.
We know that in construction, delays and protracted disputes destroy margins. Our approach is designed to protect your cash flow and risk profile at every stage—from initial tendering through to project completion. Because AXM Law operates across corporate, property, and insolvency law, we handle construction issues with a deep understanding of your broader commercial drivers.
Our construction and engineering expertise covers:
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Front-End Services & Contracting: We prepare and negotiate all forms of project delivery documentation. This includes development and joint venture agreements, tender documents, head contracts, subcontracts, consultancy agreements, supply agreements, and tri-partite financier agreements. We focus on identifying and allocating risk early, ensuring your contracts are realistic and robust.
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Project Delivery & Contract Administration: We provide real-time advice during the life of a project to help you manage claims and avoid costly disputes. We regularly advise on extension of time (EOT) claims, delay and disruption, variations, latent conditions, suspension, and termination. We also assist with licensing and regulatory compliance under state building legislation, as well as claims on contract works, public liability, and professional indemnity insurances.
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Dispute Resolution & Security of Payment: When disputes arise, we bring the same tactical, battle-hardened approach that defines our general litigation practice. We are highly experienced in using Security of Payment legislation across Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria to secure rapid outcomes, handling everything from payment claims and schedules to adjudication applications and enforcement. Where court is necessary, we actively run proceedings in the Supreme, Federal, and intermediate courts, while routinely utilising mediation and expert determination to resolve claims early.
