Basil Olabi

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Senior Associate

Construction and Engineering

+44 (0)7958 113 476

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Basil is a Senior Associate Solicitor specialising in construction and engineering disputes.

Basil advises on a broad range of contentious construction matters, including payment disputes relating to interim and final accounts, claims for extensions of time and loss and expense, defective work and design, contractual termination, fire safety defects, and bond claims.

Basil has developed extensive experience across all principal forms of dispute resolution, including adjudication, arbitration, and high-value, technically complex litigation in the Technology and Construction Court, as well as mediation. Basil provides strategic advice aimed at preventing disputes from arising on major projects.

Basil Advises

  • National developers, main contractors and sub-contractors
  • Major housebuilders
  • Construction professionals, including engineers, surveyors, planners, and architects

Experience Highlights

  • Providing strategic and legal advice to a major contractor across a number of high-value residential projects, with a current focus on fire safety and associated liability issues
  • Advising a UK Government department in connection with the reinstatement of a major office building following significant flood damage
  • Representing a subcontractor in connection with unsubstantiated contra charges and deductions on a significant energy installation project
  • Advising a Local Authority in relation to high-profile infrastructure works that resulted in a substantial overpayment, and acting in the subsequent recovery proceedings

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Solicitor, Associate (Construction & Engineering Disputes), DAC Beachcroft LLP (April 2022 – January 2026)
  • Trainee Solicitor, Solicitor, PGS Law LLP (September 2019 – March 2022)
  • Paralegal, Clyde & Co LLP (November 2017 – August 2019)

 

Memberships

  • Solicitors’ Roll, England, and Wales
  • Society of Construction Law

Expertise

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Basil is a Senior Associate Solicitor specialising in construction and engineering disputes.

Basil advises on a broad range of contentious construction matters, including payment disputes relating to interim and final accounts, claims for extensions of time and loss and expense, defective work and design, contractual termination, fire safety defects, and bond claims.

Basil has developed extensive experience across all principal forms of dispute resolution, including adjudication, arbitration, and high-value, technically complex litigation in the Technology and Construction Court, as well as mediation. Basil provides strategic advice aimed at preventing disputes from arising on major projects.

Basil Advises

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  • National developers, main contractors and sub-contractors
  • Major housebuilders
  • Construction professionals, including engineers, surveyors, planners, and architects

Experience Highlights

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  • Providing strategic and legal advice to a major contractor across a number of high-value residential projects, with a current focus on fire safety and associated liability issues
  • Advising a UK Government department in connection with the reinstatement of a major office building following significant flood damage
  • Representing a subcontractor in connection with unsubstantiated contra charges and deductions on a significant energy installation project
  • Advising a Local Authority in relation to high-profile infrastructure works that resulted in a substantial overpayment, and acting in the subsequent recovery proceedings

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Solicitor, Associate (Construction & Engineering Disputes), DAC Beachcroft LLP (April 2022 – January 2026)
  • Trainee Solicitor, Solicitor, PGS Law LLP (September 2019 – March 2022)
  • Paralegal, Clyde & Co LLP (November 2017 – August 2019)

 

Memberships

  • Solicitors’ Roll, England, and Wales
  • Society of Construction Law

Basil's team
Warren Kemp
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Jason Liu
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Connor Scott
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