Construction Law

Overview

Deal-Side Thinking, Jobsite-Level Execution

DarrowEverett LLP’s Construction Law practice provides comprehensive, sophisticated counsel to stakeholders across the construction life cycle, combining transactional acumen, regulatory fluency, and dispute resolution capabilities to advance project objectives from concept through completion.

Our attorneys represent commercial and private property owners, developers, construction firms, subcontractors and materialmen, lenders, and governmental entities, delivering project counseling, documentation, and advocacy across commercial, governmental, and residential projects. Our experience spans the concept, due diligence, development, and financing phases through completion and management, enabling us to structure and negotiate projects effectively while addressing variables that materially impact outcomes. We draft and negotiate construction-related documents and handle matters ranging from recurring construction and real property issues to specialized, complex one-of-a-kind problems, aligning legal strategy with business objectives.

Construction Law Services

We deliver transactional, litigation, and regulatory assistance tailored to the unique risk, schedule, and budget demands of construction projects.

  • Contract Negotiations: We structure an negotiate bespoke construction agreements that allocate risk, align incentives, and support financing and delivery objectives across project phases.
  • Subcontracts and Material Acquisitions: We draft and negotiate subcontracts and supply agreements to ensure clarity on scope, price, schedule, quality, and flow-down obligations.
  • Project Administration: We support day-to-day project governance, change management, notice and claim preservation, and documentation strategies to control risk.
  • Bidding Procedures: We advise on competitive and negotiated procurement processes, ensuring compliance, defensibility, and strategic positioning in both public and private solicitations.
  • Permitting, Zoning, and Environmental Regulation: We navigate entitlements and regulatory compliance to synchronize legal approvals with project timelines.
  • Due Diligence: We evaluate entitlements, site conditions, permitting pathways, and third-party interfaces to inform go/no-go decisions and contract drafting.
  • Project Financing: We align construction documents with lender expectations and funding mechanics, facilitating both traditional and structured financings.
  • Traditional and Structured Financing Products, Including Tax Exempt Financing: We integrate financing requirements into construction and development documentation to support funding execution and compliance.
  • Surety Bond Claims and Litigation: We assert and defend performance and payment bond claims, coordinating with sureties to expedite resolutions aligned with project needs.
  • Mechanics’ Liens Practice: We perfect, enforce, defend, and resolve lien and security remedies to protect payment rights and manage title impacts.
  • Provisional Judicial Remedies (Injunctions, Replevin, Etc.): We pursue and defend urgent relief to protect project assets, schedules, and critical path activities.
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution: We employ mediation and other ADR mechanisms to resolve disputes efficiently, minimizing project disruption and preserving key relationships while aligning outcomes with contract risk allocations.
  • Construction Arbitration: We prosecute and defend claims before arbitral tribunals, integrating contract, scheduling, and technical evidence to present effective case strategies.
  • Construction Litigation: We litigate complex construction disputes, coordinating factual development with project documentation and expert analysis to advance or defend claims.
  • Design/Build/Operate Facilities: We counsel on integrated delivery models and long-term operational structures, tailoring documentation to performance standards and life cycle risk.
  • Project Joint Ventures: We structure JV arrangements that harmonize control, funding, and exit terms with the project delivery model.
  • Project Workouts: We develop consensual and contested strategies to stabilize challenged projects, preserve value, and reposition obligations where necessary.
  • Errors and Omissions Representation: We address claims arising from professional services, coordinating contract defenses with technical records and expert testimony.

Why Choose DarrowEverett for Construction Law?

  • Life Cycle Fluency Across Project Phases: We advise from concept and due
    diligence through development, financing, completion, and management,
    providing continuity that reduces handoff risk and enhances execution.
  • Sophisticated Drafting and Negotiation: Our team drafts and negotiates
    construction-related documents with a focus on practical risk allocation,
    market terms, and bankability, enabling efficient closings and durable
    project performance.
  • Breadth of Stakeholder Perspectives: Having represented owners, developers,
    contractors, subcontractors, lenders, and governmental entities, we
    anticipate counterpart strategies and align documentation and dispute
    tactics accordingly.
  • Capacity for Complex Issues: We routinely handle specialized, complex
    construction matters, tailoring solutions to unique technical, regulatory,
    and financial constraints.
  • Integrated Transactional, Regulatory, and Dispute Capabilities: Our ability
    to combine project counseling, documentation, and advocacy translates to
    preventative risk management and decisive action when issues arise.

Contact us today to let us help you with your construction projects and goals.

Paul M. Quin

Practice Leader

Paul M. Quin - Partner

Paul M. Quin focuses his practice on entertainment law, personal injury defense, environmental law, general tort matters, complex business litigation, and general commercial business law. He also has extensive experience…

Gabriel S. Saade, Esq.

Practice Leader

Gabriel S. Saade, Esq. - Partner

Gabriel S. Saade, Esq. is the Chair of DarrowEverett’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group and a member of its Business Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution, Corporate & Business Transactions,…

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With offices strategically located across the East Coast, we serve clients with local insight and national reach.

New York, NY

New York Office

450 Seventh Avenue
Suite 1802
New York, NY 10123


Contact Information
Tel: (212) 335-2090
Fax: (212) 335-2091

Miami, FL

Miami Office

1 SE Third Avenue
Suite 2520
Miami, FL 33131


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Tel: (305) 686-5159
Fax: (305) 686-6159

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Office

1801 N. Military Trail
Suite 203
Boca Raton, FL 33431


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Tel: (561) 288-2600
Fax: (561) 277-0012

Tampa, FL

Tampa Office

201 E Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 600
Tampa, FL 33602


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Tel: (813) 314-4500
Fax: (813) 314-4555

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Providence, RI

Providence Office

One Turks Head Place
Suite 1200
Providence, RI 02903


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Tel: (401) 453-1200
Fax: (401) 453-1201

Boston, MA

Boston Office

50 Congress Street
Suite 1040
Boston, MA 02109


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Tel: (617) 443-4500
Fax: (857) 758-2948

Southcoast, MA

Southcoast Office

99 S. Main St.
Suite 280
Fall River, MA 02721


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Tel: (508) 675-1576
Fax: (508) 672-6196

Charlotte, NC

Charlotte Office

1515 Mockingbird Lane
Suite 7120
Charlotte, NC 28209


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Tel: (704) 672-0605
Fax: (704) 812-7642