Services

We advise throughout the life cycle of projects, supporting owners, contractors, concessionaires and law firms, with the expert eye of someone who knows the industry from the inside.

WL has participated in the development of contracting strategies and contractual framework design on many of the most relevant projects in the region.

Our professionals provide the support that clients need through the following services:

• Comprehensive consulting on a selection of contractual models to be used in a project.
  
• Consulting on drafting invitations to tender and bidding bases.
  
• Development of bidding processes.
  
• Analysis of contractual risks and consulting on assessing/preparing proposals.
  
• Development and review of contracts of engineering, construction supply, D&B, BOT, DBOT, BOOT, BOMT’s, EPC y EPCM.
• Support during negotiation of contractual terms.
• Development of plans of contract performance.

WL provides a unique service in contract management, combining the experience of contract experts and technical professionals in our client consulting, ensuring consistent and integrated management.

Our service comprises a technical-contractual component, based on periodical support to the client’s contractual management, and a strategic one, having in mind the client’s profile, the characteristics of the other party and the complexity of the contract. Likewise, the consulting services provided by WL contributes to uniting the ongoing project management´s vision with the viewpoint of the management, central office or headquarters.

Our vision about contractual management is preemptive in nature, since we understand that the main goal of both parties is to finish their projects without exceeding costs and deadlines, and to avoid court proceedings.

Our professionals provide the following services on this particular matter:

• Contractual risk assessment reports (risks and mitigation).
  
• Training in management and administration of contract for the project’s team.
  
• Drafting and follow-up of technical and contractual communications.
• Strategy analysis and design.
• Support in management (preparation and analysis) of changes and variations.
• Schedule analysis.
• Cost variance analysis.

We understand that, sometimes, it is impossible to avoid differences between parties. In this situation, we support management of these differences under the various mechanisms the contract sets forth. This support consists of reviewing and analyzing claims submitted by third parties or preparing and formulating claims for the contractor.

Our professional team provides a unique multidisciplinary service, merging technical and contractual elements with the use of supporting graphic tools, thus ensuring complete consistency and understanding of the analysis or presentation of the claim or dispute.

The main services WL provides in this regard are the following:

• Comprehensive preparation of claims, in all their technical and legal chapters, including design of supporting graphic material.
  
• Comprehensive claim analysis, in all their technical and legal aspects.
  
• Consulting services during claim negotiation process.
• Support during preparation of presentations before Technical Panels, Dispute Boards, technical experts, and in general, Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems (ADRs).
• Strategic support during dispute management under multi-tier clauses.

Our partners’ experience has been valued by the market, allowing us to act as technical experts, adjudicators, dispute boards and arbitrators in the region.

Our main services in this area are the following:

• Technical experts: we resolve disputes between the parties in a project, as a preventive measure or prior to litigation or arbitration.
• Dispute Boards: we participate in projects, supporting the parties throughout their execution, preventing disputes and/or resolving disagreements.
  
• Arbitrators or Adjudicators: we offer a unique combination of legal and technical skills, allowing us to conduct multidimensional case analysis with in-depth industry knowledge.
  

Our professional team ensures experience, precision and rigor, explaining highly complex technical matters with certainty and simplicity.

Experience and deep knowledge of engineering and construction contracts allows WL to have a broad and objective view of the origin of disputes and their corresponding supporting evidence.
We have a senior team, which is up-to-date with the international trends in delay analysis and costs impact, having participated during recent years as experts in the most important court and arbitration proceedings in the region.
Our specialists provide a highly professional and specialized service, thanks to their deep knowledge of the Latin-American markets reality. This advantage allows us to perform analysis processes which incorporate local cultural features.

The main services provided by our team in this regard are the following:

• Technical-contractual diagnosis reports identifying strengths and weaknesses of the case subject matter of arbitration or court proceedings.
  
• Support to litigation law firms during definition of case strategy.
  
• Permanent technical-contractual support to law firms during arbitration or court proceedings.
  
• Performance of surveys, technical opinions and expert reports on matters of damage quantification, increased costs, general expenses analysis, disruption analysis (productivity loss) and delay analysis, among others.
  
• Appearance in arbitration and court proceedings as experts.
  
• Legal representation in arbitration or court procedures in highly-complex cases.