About Davies & Davies
Nigel Davies
Nigel Davies BSc (Hons) (Q.Surv), GDipLaw, PGDipLP, DipArb, FRICS, FCIOB, MInstCES, FCIArb, FFB, is a Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Builder, Chartered Arbitrator, Solicitor, Panel Registered Adjudicator, Mediator and Mediation Advocate.
Nigel originally launched the business in 2005, and upon incorporation at the beginning of 2008, it changed its name to Davies & Davies Associates Ltd. Davies & Davies has steadily grown year on year, providing quality comprehensive advice and support to organisations in the construction industry involved in difficult projects, high risk/reward contracts, disputes and conflict. The launch of the central London office established the business’ physical presence in the nation’s capital.
As both a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Solicitor, having worked for building contractors in the construction industry and law firms in the field of construction law, Nigel offers an unusual perspective gained through his hands-on experience which he continues to maintain.
Nigel is conversant with the standard forms of contract and sub-contract currently in use in the building and civil engineering industries together with the associated methods of measurement. Nigel also undertakes the vetting and drafting of contracts, seminars, provision of legal advice, Mediation services and the overseeing of all aspects of dispute resolution including Litigation. He is experienced in the resolution of both simple and complex contractual problems.
Not only does Nigel undertake appointments as an Adjudicator, he is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Mediator, who also represents clients across a variety of contentious and non-contentious construction matters - details of which can be found under client examples on the our Services section. Please click on the appropriate tab on the top of the page and follow the links.
In addition, Nigel is a member of the RICS Construction and Dispute Resolution Faculties, The Law Society, the Chartered Institute of Building, the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, The Faculty of Building and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a practising Adjudicator panel registered with the RICS and the CIC, a Mediator and a Mediation Advocate.
Matthew Davies
Matthew Davies Bsc (Hons) Quantity Surveying, LLB (Hons), LPC (Commendation), Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, is dual qualified as a chartered quantity surveyor and a solicitor.
Matthew specialises in providing legal, commercial and contractual management, construction claims and dispute resolution services to the construction industry including representing organisations in adjudication and other dispute forums. Matthew also drafts and reviews contracts, sub-contracts and collateral warranties, and advises on a variety of contentious and non-contentious construction matters. He also undertakes the preparation and resolution of complex final accounts and other quantity surveying matters.
Matthew has over 16 years experience in the construction industry originally gained working as a quantity surveyor working on a variety of building projects, then latterly as a consultant and a solicitor specialising in commercial and contractual management and construction law. During this period Matthew has worked and acted for employers, architects, main contractors and specialist sub-contractors in providing quantity surveying, legal and commercial services on a wide range of construction projects operating under a variety of standard and non-standard contracts and sub-contracts. These have included: shopping centres, commercial offices, leisure centres, underground station, industrial facilities, shopping centres, refurbishment, prestige residential developments and social housing.
Matthew also undertakes the vetting and drafting of contracts, seminars, provision of legal advice and the overseeing of all aspects of dispute resolution including Litigation. He is experienced in the resolution of both simple and complex contractual problems.
In addition to the above Matthew is the joint author of the book “Subcontracting under the JCT2005 forms”.
Robert Sliwinski
Robert Sliwinski, BSc LLB (Hons) FRICS FCIArb, FNADR Barrister, Attorney (New York) RICS & CIArb Adjudication Panel Member.
Robert Sliwinski is a Consultant to Davies & Davies Associates Ltd having worked and practised within the Construction Industry and Legal Profession for over 29 years.
Having initially commenced his career as a Quantity Surveyor, in 1988 Robert became involved with dispute resolution in the Construction Industry and between 1990 - 2000 practised as a barrister at the Bar of England and Wales. During this time Robert also began to act as Adjudicator and Arbitrator within the Construction Industry, and has been appointed to the RICS Adjudication Panel and the CIArb Construction Adjudication Panel. He continues to undertake appointments as an Adjudicator and Arbitrator, and also acts on behalf of clients up to and including representation at Adjudication and Arbitration hearings.
Robert also undertakes the vetting and drafting of contracts, seminars, provision of legal advice, Mediation and the overseeing of all aspects of dispute resolution including Litigation. He is experienced in the resolution of both simple and complex contractual problems with knowledge of construction and legal systems both in Europe and America.
Dr Michael Reynolds
Dr Michael Reynolds, Solicitor and Chartered Arbitrator, is a Consultant to Davies & Davies Associates Ltd and is an experienced construction lawyer and commercial arbitrator having worked for some years in the City and in a regional practice as well as in local government after serving articles in a Parliamentary practice.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.
His practice covers adjudication, arbitration here and abroad, litigation in the TCC as well as non-contentious construction advice on construction and engineering contracts.
He has lectured in construction law at Anglia Ruskin University, Faculty of Science and Technology, and taught on the LPC course at BPP Law School in Holborn. He has chaired a number of construction conferences for CLT and the CIOB, and has spoken at seminars organised by local branches of the CIArb, and RICS.
He was the General Editor of Construction and Engineering Law and was a former member of the Editorial Board of Arbitration. He is the author of three popular practice books: Arbitration: A practical Guide; Construction Litigation Practice and The Expert Witness in Construction.
He has featured in articles in The Times, and The Independent and has had articles published in several leading journals. He holds Masters’ degrees from King’s College and Queen Mary College, London University and recently completed ground breaking research at the Law Department of the London School of Economics where he is a Visiting Senior Fellow.
In a foreword to one of Michael’s books an eminent Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal wrote: Michael Reynolds is perhaps one of the most experienced and certainly, able, practitioners in the world of Construction Law.
