The highly regarded construction lawyer from Stuttgart, Frank Stege, is moving with his team of real estate lawyers to Breyer Rechtsanwälte. The 12-strong Breyer construction law team in Stuttgart will be strengthened by Frank Stege and Mathias Hörnisch (both specialist lawyers for construction and architectural law), Dr. Martin Ludwig and Frieder Kluß (both specialist lawyers for lease and residential property law) and Stefan Oschmann (specialist lawyer for administrative law with a focus on public construction law). Breyer now has a total of 30 practitioners at its national and international locations.

We are pleased to welcome our new colleagues, thereby expanding our already strong foothold in the Stuttgart market as well as throughout Germany. Frank Stege and Mathias Hörnisch are two experienced experts, especially in the property development business, to which Breyer will devote more attention in the future. The commercial real estate law department, led by Dr. Kruska, will be particularly strengthened in the area of lease and residential property by the new additions Dr. Martin Ludwig and Frieder Kluß. Partner Verdugo Morales has been a consistently prominent figure in this field for many years. Stefan Oschmann, who will take over the area of public construction law at Breyer, will round complete the expansion of the Stuttgart team.

Breyer’s clients include many of the largest German construction companies, project developers and well-known international investors. In addition, Breyer enjoys the trust of the public sector and many medium-sized construction companies. The firm is a leader in the field of introducing and designing innovative partnering contract models based on multi-party contracts in Germany. Dr. Breyer, who gave his name to the firm, has been active worldwide for many years. At the beginning of September, Dr. Breyer successfully entered into a strategic collaboration with the law firm Hanson Bridgett based in San Francisco, California. Hanson Bridgett is the market leader in the field of IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) in the USA and Canada, the introduction of which is being driven forward by Dr. Breyer in Germany and Europe.

Hanson Bridgett is a California based law firm with more than 150 attorneys in offices in San Francisco, Sacramento, the North Bay, the East Bay and Los Angeles. In addition to having a national reputation in the USA, Hanson Bridgett has a significant international footprint as well and will perfectly complement our international vision at Breyer Rechtsanwälte.

Like Breyer Rechtsanwälte in Germany and Europe, which has spearheaded the introduction of IPD to Germany and Europe by handling the first two major pioneer projects, Hanson Bridgett is an industry leader in the implementation of IPD in the USA and Canada, having executed far more projects than any other firm. As of 2018, the Hanson Bridgett IPD team had structured more than 135 pure IPD projects, as well as many more projects using IPD principles.

Our firm strives daily to not only provide the best legal services available in the construction industry, but to constantly improve the quality and variety of those services. Our collaboration with Hanson Bridgett is another example of our commitment to improve the quality and breadth of service that we provide.

For additional information about Hanson Bridgett, please visit: https://www.hansonbridgett.com/.

The law firm is pleased about the new award and about your satisfaction and trust in the cooperation

Some of the highlights included: an overview of international construction projects in Asia, remedies after taking-over, delay analysis from three points of view (consultant, contractor, and lawyer), and the role of the expert witness. As chairman of the ICLA, Dr. Wolfgang Breyer chaired the event and spoke on several topics over the two days of the conference.

For more information on the ICLA or future conferences please visit: http://www.icl-assoc.com/.

This event will be a rare opportunity to compare and contrast the approaches of a diverse range of legal jurisdictions and families (including Russian, Chinese, French, German, English) to a wide range of topics in construction law, with a special focus on Asia. For more information about the Tokyo Conference and online registration, please click here or go to conferencetokyo.icl-assoc.com.

This groundbreaking conference included a combination of hands-on training in Lean Management Fundamentals and Lean Government Framework creation, as well as presentations, case studies, experiential learning simulations, and discussions by internationally renowned Lean industry leaders. The Conference participants aimed to promote the value proposition of applying Lean thinking and Lean production to the public sector and to government institutions.

Dr. Wolfgang Breyer presented on the second day of the Conference. Moderated by Alan Mossman (Secretary, LIPS Steering Committee; Director, The Change Business Ltd.), the topic Dr. Breyer’s panel was “Legal issues in procuring for lean services; issues and principles open and transparent procurement. How can you get the results you want when contracting for services?” His particular contribution included an in-depth examination and analysis of the issues surrounding lean services and open procurement in both Germany and Europe generally.

The full conference agenda can be found here: LIPS 2018-Agenda.

Read the full article here: JUVE Ausgabe 2018/12 – Bauen_mit_Vertrauen. (only german)

This exciting conference featured a comparative look at the approaches of a multitude of jurisdictions (including Russian, Chinese, French, German, English) to a wide variety of topics, including The Employer’s Role and Obligations to the Contractor, General Contractor Contracts, Improving Value through Collaboration (following on from the joint ICLA and King’s College Conference in February 2018), Contract Interpretation and more. Dr. Wolfgang Breyer chaired the event and was the keynote speaker on several topics over the course of this interesting and successful conference.

You can have a look for some impressions of the conferenz in a short video here.

The conference focused on a variety of topics relating to the global practice of construction law, highlighting the legal, business, and economic challenges and opportunities in construction today, with notable speakers from around the world. In particular, Dr. Wolfgang Breyer was a featured panelist in discussions on the varying approaches to international contract interpretation and on international comparative law and how choice of law can affect the disposition of a case.

Further information about the program of the 8th International Society of Construction Law Conference in Chicago can be found here.

For further Information about the conference click here: ICLA Conference Flyer — Moscow 2018.

Southeast University Law School, Nanjing, China

Training: One Belt One Road – Analyse of risk and avoidance of risk under international construction projects

Date: 13. – 14. march 2018

Venue: Nanjing, China

Speaker: Dr. Breyer, Dr. Yu

Lecture: Application of FIDIC Contract in Civil Law countries

Dates: 14. march 2018

Venue: Southeast University Law School, Nanjing, China

Speaker: Dr. Breyer

Titel:    Construction and architectural law

Date:    30.01.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Stuttgart

Lec.:     Dr. Breyer, Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    The new construction contract law – civil engineering

Date:    05.02.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Stuttgart

Lec.:     Frau Frohwein, LL.M., Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    Construction and architectural law

Date:    08.02.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Stuttgart

Lec.:     Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    The new construction contract law 2018

Date:    20.02.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Weilheim

Lec.:     Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    Claim management in connection with public construction contracts

Date:    11.04.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Lec.:     Dr. Burdinski

Southeast University Nanjing, China, 13.-14. March 2018

Dr. Breyer: Lecture on FIDIC at Southeast University Nanjing with a focus on construction law; Training on risks and avoidance measures of international construction law

Fifth Annual Conference of IACL, The International Double Bay, Australia, 12.-15. April 2018

Dr. Breyer: Participation as a Fellow of the International Academy of Construction Law

SCL Conference, Chicago, USA, 27.-29. September 2018

Dr. Breyer: Lecture on contract interpretation from the perspective of European civil law

ICLA Conference, Moscow State University, Russia, expected 15.-17. Oktober 2018

Dr. Breyer: Chairman, lecture (tbd)

Further information about the events and programs will follow shortly.

We bring together leading practitioners and thinkers from the UK and from around the world to assess the latest developments and to present case studies explaining how their models work, how they fit with legal requirements and what they can deliver.

THURSDAY 1st MARCH 2018 from 9.00 am.
The Great Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Our speakers include:

Procuring for Value and the UK Construction Sector Deal
Ann Bentley, Lead on Supply Chain and Business Models, Construction Leadership Council

BIM and UK Housing after the Grenfell Tower disaster
Terry Stocks, Digital Built Britain, BIM Level 2 Group Delivery Director

Improving Value Through Strategic Procurement: the FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract
Antony Silk, Optivo Housing Association and Neil Thody, Cameron Consulting

Contractor Leadership and Whole-Life Collaboration: Supply Chain Alliance case study
Nigel Owers, Kier Services Highways and Jason Russell, Surrey County Council

Assessing the NEC4 options: the NEC Alliance Contract and NEC cost reimbursement
Assad Maqbool, Trowers & Hamlins and Ronan Champion, Champion Pearce

Alliance procurement, BIM and German civil law
Wolfgang Breyer, Chair of ICLA and Prof. Stefan Leupertz, ex- German Supreme Court Judge

BIM, the law and alliances in Italy
Prof. Sara Valaguzza, University of Milan and Prof. Angelo Ciribini, University of Brescia

Funders’ views and the potential for alliances in Eastern Europe
Evgeny Smirnov, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Adriana Spassova, Bulgarian Society of Construction Law

Integrated project delivery and BIM in the USA and alliances in Brazil
Howard Ashcraft, Hanson Bridgett USA and John Oyama, Aroeira Salles, Brazil

SRA CPD scheme & BSB CPD (ref: 1546): 7 HOURS
Registration is at 9.00am and the conference is followed by a drinks reception at 6.00pm.

To book, please fill in the form of the enclosed Alliance Conference Flyer.