Key Personnel

Our Construction and Planning Lawyers & Consultants

Our team comprises senior construction lawyers with industry-renowned pedigree and skills. It follows that our lawyers are equipped to meet the demands and requirements of our diverse range of clients. When clients engage us, they rest assured they are armed with top advice and preeminent legal expertise.

Our lawyers’ decades of experience in the construction law theatre means their strategies have stood the test of time, are trusted, reliable and actionable. Our lawyers adopt practical and nuanced approaches to each matter, culminating in advice that ensures our clients are primed to protect their interests and livelihoods.

Our team of lawyers are well equipped to handle large and complicated legal matters in an efficient and professional manner. The kinds of matters our lawyers have had carriage of include, but are not limited to:-

• Multi-million dollar owners corporation and body corporate class actions;
• Multi-storey building disputes involving flammable cladding requiring substantial rectification works;
• Substantial building defect matters as advocates for both owners and builders;
• Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment matters;
• Crane oversail licensing;
• Corporate and individual practitioner registration appeals;
• Advisory and law reform matters in state, federal and foreign jurisdictions;
• Contract advice matters; and
• Protection works matters.

Lovegrove & Cotton’s legacy – Given its foundation in 1993, and with the experience of many decades as lawyers in active practice, our brand comes with it a highly regarded reputation throughout the construction industry and legal fraternity. It is one of the reasons why this firm is consistently ranked as a leading construction law firm in Doyles Guide. Our clients are able to leverage off and benefit from this longstanding reputation when they deploy us as advocates in their various matters. Each year, we continue to maintain and nurture our reputation within the construction law theatre.

We are able to comfortably achieve this because we refuse to accept less than the best from ourselves. We are a vigilant, concerned, persistent and astute team of legal professionals.

Our reputation as top-calibre professionals within the construction and legal fraternities sets us apart from many other boutique law practices.

We are distinctively ‘Lovegrove & Cotton’ – The unique combination of top-calibre expertise and boutique practice is the hallmark of the Lovegrove & Cotton experience. It means our clients receive both the expertise and dedication they demand and deserve. Our boutique business model means our clients are never a mere ‘number’.

Our lawyers value and understand our clients’ service needs and requirements. When our client’s prosper, we all prosper and this is a mantra of the firm.

Our qualities of dedication, commitment, perseverance and honesty are ingrained in our people. Because of this, we are quickly able to establish a sound basis with our clients and a rapport based on professionalism and mutual respect.