We advised our client, an infrastructure engineering firm specializing in bridge design and rehabilitation, regarding its contracts for a federally funded bridge rehabilitation project, part of a larger $140 million, four-bridge rehabilitation program, over a river serving an international port. This project involved a multi-tiered contracting structure, requiring our team to analyze both the agreement between our client and the prime contractor – a nationally recognized infrastructure construction contractor – and the agreement between the governmental owner and the prime contractor. This review allowed us to identify and counsel our client on many business decisions and legal issues, informing their negotiations with the prime contractor and their subsequent subcontracts with their own subconsultants. We guided our client through risk assessments, helping them understand and evaluate their options based on their risk tolerance. We also addressed legal issues, negotiating changes related to indemnification, insurance, and other contractual provisions, for its upstream agreement with the prime contractor and downstream subconsultant agreements.
