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We have a dedicated team of accomplished and highly qualified individuals ready to assist you. Our insight and expertise enables us to provide you with pragmatic and commercial advice. Working in partnership with our clients, we integrate the skills, knowledge and experience of our consultants to provide the most suitable individual or team for the task. Our team is committed to providing our clients with excellence and delivering results.

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PETER MCCARTNEY

BSc (Civ Eng) LLM FCIArb MIoD

Consultant

Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Institute of Directors, and has spent many years in the construction industry in the UK, Ireland and the Middle East as an engineer and project manager. He has extensive knowledge and experience of all aspects of construction dispute resolution and has dealt with over 3,000 disputes including more than 500 adjudications and 500 arbitrations. He has also acted as a mediator and as a facilitator in both construction and IT disputes on contracts worth up to £3 billion.

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PETER MCCARTNEY
Consultant

BSc (Civ Eng) LLM FCIArb MIoD
Chartered Arbitrator

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CHRISTOPHER DEAN

LLB (Hons) MSc FCIArb

Director

The bulk of Christopher’s work at CCC is contentious. Acting for both claiming and defending parties, he has experience across a wide range of construction projects, including schools, university buildings, rail projects, aviation projects, hospitals, house building projects, retail and other private projects, and engineering projects. This includes working with international clients on projects in the UK and abroad.

Christopher has extensive experience of acting for a wide range of specialist contractors, and enjoys applying legal principles to the factual circumstances that arise on projects. Applying the good practice learnt from his contentious work, Christopher undertakes a wide range of non-contentious work, spanning contract reviews, seminars, advice on preparation of contracts, and providing ongoing commercial assistance on projects from start to end.

Christopher has an MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from King's College London and is a member of the Adjudication Society. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and received the President’s prize 2016 for achieving the highest mark in that year of those sitting the same examination.

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CHRISTOPHER DEAN
Director

LLB (Hons) MSc FCIArb

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LISA VERNON

BA (Hons) GDipLaw MCIArb

Director

Lisa is a Director of CCC having worked with the firm for approximately 10 years.

Lisa has experience in contentious matters including adjudication, arbitration, litigation and mediation. Lisa has worked for clients across various sectors of the construction industry. This includes a dispute against a £500M turnover main contractor which then instructed CCC to act on its behalf.

Lisa also has experience of dealing with a range of non-contentious matters including contract advice, providing ongoing commercial assistance on live projects and giving seminars to clients on a variety of topics. This includes training.

Lisa has worked with international clients and has been involved in a multi-billion dollar dispute on a US based project for a European client.

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LISA VERNON
Director

BA (Hons) GDipLaw MCIArb
RICS Accredited Mediator

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ANDREW CULLYER

BA, LLB (Hons), GDL, PGDipLaw BPTC

Dispute Resolution Consultant

Andrew joined CCC in mid 2015. He successfully completed the Bar Professional Training course, on a full scholarship from the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, in which he was judged “Very Competent” and was called to the bar in July 2013. Andrew's work with CCC primarily involves assisting fee-earners on a very wide range of both contentious and non-contentious work for UK and European clients. He works on a wide range of disputes of varying value. Andrew liaises with clients on a daily basis. Andrew has recently been working on a local scaffolding dispute and an internal refurbishment dispute in London.

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EMILIJA BALYNAITE

LLB (Hons)

Dispute Resolution Consultant

Emilija joined CCC in 2017 with a qualifying law degree and is continuing her professional development alongside the work at CCC. Her work at CCC revolves primarily around assisting the fee-earners with contentious matters, the preparation of a wide range of contract claims and the running of a series of complex Adjudications in high value disputes for both UK and international clients. Emilija’s experience is mainly in working with multimillion pound disputes and extension of time claims on complex residential, commercial and mixed-purpose building projects and with multimillion pound disputes in the social housing sector.

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EMILIJA BALYNAITE
Dispute Resolution Consultant

LLB (Hons)

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ALAN GARDINER

LLB (Hons), LLM

Dispute Resolution Consultant

Alan joined CCC in October 2017 having previously worked for a large national law firm. Alan has completed a degree in Law and a further Masters degree in Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Alan’s work within CCC involves assisting fee-earners with a wide range of work for both international and domestic clients. Alan has recently been working on a multi-million pound facade dispute in London and a high value service contract dispute.

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ALAN GARDINER
Dispute Resolution Consultant

LLB (Hons), LLM

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JULIE MILKINS

BA (Hons)

Finance and Office Manager

Julie joined CCC in 2002 with a degree in Business Studies and Finance and over 10 years' work experience. Her role in CCC has developed since then to incorporate many areas of the business including responsibility for all areas of finance, human resources and the coordination of our public seminars.

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the team

PETER MCCARTNEY

PETER MCCARTNEY Consultant

CHRISTOPHER DEAN

CHRISTOPHER DEANDirector

LISA VERNON

LISA VERNONDirector

ANDREW CULLYER

If you are interested in joining our team, please visit our careers page.

EMILIJA BALYNAITE

EMILIJA BALYNAITEDispute Resolution Consultant

ALAN GARDINER

ALAN GARDINERDispute Resolution Consultant

JULIE MILKINS

PETER MCCARTNEY
Consultant

CHRISTOPHER DEAN
Director

LISA VERNON
Director

EMILIJA BALYNAITE
Dispute Resolution Consultant

ALAN GARDINER
Dispute Resolution Consultant