Jeremy E. Nunns

• Acted for a major developer on a flagship luxury residential development in relation to a multi-hearing arbitration dispute relating to workmanship, design, delay and disruption issues.
• Acted for a listed developer in Hong Kong in relation to appeals against building orders on a compulsory purchase of an industrial building.
• Advised a major Hong Kong transport body in relation to contractual interpretation of project funding arrangements in respect of the construction of a new station and railway and other major infrastructure projects around Hong Kong.
• Acted for a major Hong Kong transport body in respect of claims strategy on a rail project and review of delay, disruption, variation, unforeseen ground conditions claims.
• Represented a leading tertiary education institution in Hong Kong on termination of a contractor under a contract for building and specialist refurbishment works.
• Advised a major Hong Kong developer with water leakage and other defective works claims at one of their flagship shopping centres.
• Advised a listed company in Hong Kong in respect of defective building works of a subcontractor.
• Appeared as sole representative for charter flight and tourism company based in Mainland China before a Hong Kong High Court Master in respect of a case management summons regarding an application for adjournment regarding disclosure requests.
• Advised a supplier of construction materials on various planning matters and issuing a statutory demand for monies due.
• Advised a tertiary education institution in Hong Kong on delay and prolongation claims by a contractor.
• Secondments with a large Hong Kong contractor on a significant government tunnel project and a highway project in Hong Kong, providing mid-project legal and strategic advice, working with claims team on site to develop claims relating to delay and disruption and assisting on settlements on a number of disputed issues.
• Acted for a major Hong Kong contractor in arbitration proceedings against a sub-contractor regarding a significant railway project involving claims for variations, extension of time, loss and expense and unforeseen ground conditions.

Notable non-contentious experience

• Advised a statutory authority on supplemental agreements and joint venture agreements following the provisional liquidation of a contractor.
• Advised an asset management company on construction project consultancy tenders, including review of various tender documents for engaging consultants on a logistics centre redevelopment project (such as Architectural, AP, Quantity Surveyor, Structural Engineer, Traffic, Landscaping, Sustainability etc).
• Advised a statutory body on a supplemental agreement for logistics centre development reflecting changed commercial objectives of client.
• Advised a government body on hospital facilities management agreement, including reviewing, analysing and amending legal and technical documents forming part of the overall tender document.
• Advised a leading tertiary education institution on a facilities management agreement, including reviewing and carrying out significant amendments to tender documents.
• Advised a project management company on a project management agreement, including reviewing and negotiating on behalf of a consultant/contractor company on various terms.
• Advising a materials supplier on construction material supply agreements – reviewing and advising on options available due to a sudden change in supply of materials.
• Advising a tunnel operator company on latent defects, warranties and limitation period issues for a tunnel maintenance contract in the New Territories.
• Advised a statutory authority in house on negotiating various commercial agreements relating to global luxury brands, e-platform collaboration agreements with the government, promotional collaboration agreements with a global theme park, art installation/display agreements, market data subscription agreements.