Nicola Caley

Nicola Caley has more than 24 years’ experience in construction with more than 13 years focused on strategic claims management, claims determination, contractual claims preparation and defence and dispute resolution. She is a legal professional with an LLM in Construction Law and Arbitration, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an RICS accredited mediator.

Nicola has led teams on many complex and technically demanding claims assignments where she regularly advises on claims and commercial matters on major projects within challenging environments. She has a wealth of commercial, contractual and management experience gained from working on complex infrastructure, buildings and oil and gas projects throughout UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. Other experience includes retail, housing developments, commercial and mixed-use buildings. She is well versed with most current standard forms of contract and has an excellent working knowledge of the NEC, JCT and FIDIC suites of contracts. She has a particularly strong background in claims, bespoke contracts and the use of interim dispute resolution techniques on distressed projects.