Brodies expands construction team with three appointments

Mr Arnott is one of the country’s most respected contentious construction specialists. He brings to Scotland’s largest law firm 25 years of specialist expertise in resolving construction, engineering and PPP/PFI disputes.

He is ranked band 1 in the current edition of Chambers and Partners, having received “acclaim from peers and clients for the calibre of his disputes work”. The directory commends him as “very level-headed”, “practical” and for understanding his clients. He joins from MacRoberts, where he was head of the firm’s construction and projects group.

Mr Arnott, who will be based in Brodies’ Edinburgh office, specialises in resolving construction and engineering disputes through negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation. He has been involved in more than 200 adjudications and has resolved multi-million pound disputes relating to some of the country’s largest PFI and PPP projects and other high profile construction cases.

He will also be joined at Brodies by Mr Duff, who has six years’ specialist expertise in construction dispute resolution. He also joins from MacRoberts.

Ms McMonagle brings over 12 years’ experience to Brodies’ non-contentious construction team, having advised clients on all forms of construction and engineering contracts and associated documents. She will be based in Brodies’ Glasgow office and joins from Harper Macleod, where she was a partner in the firm’s construction team. Before joining her last firm, she spent 10 years with Dundas & Wilson. She has worked on some of the most significant construction projects in Scotland over the past decade.

Mr Arnott and Ms McMonagle, who are both accredited as specialists in construction law by the Law Society of Scotland, will work alongside fellow partners and contentious construction specialists Manus Quigg and Louise Shiels, and contract specialist Alistair McLean.

Stephen Goldie, head of litigation at Brodies, said: “These great appointments underline our sustained investment in providing the construction, contracting, infrastructure and real estate sectors with a team that can deliver results for clients involved in both contentious and non-contentious matters.”