Kimberly Roberts

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Kimberly Roberts

Kimberly Roberts

Partner


London
  1. People /

Kimberly Roberts

Kimberly Roberts

Partner


London

Kimberly Roberts

Partner

London

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Biography

Kimberly is a partner in BCLP’s Commercial Construction and Engineering Team. Kimberly has a wealth of experience in a broad range of non-contentious engineering and construction matters with a particular emphasis on strategic and procurement advice and in drafting and negotiating construction and engineering contracts across a spectrum of sectors. This includes building contracts, alliance agreements, framework agreements, development agreements and other related documents. She has experience in major industry standard forms as well as bespoke contracts, working for a range of clients including international and national developers, investors, public authorities, consultants, contractors and funders. Kimberly is a member of the Society of Construction Law and was a finalist in the WICE Awards 2022, legal category.

Kimberly is a Net Zero champion and proactively looks at the ways construction contracts can not only best embody sustainability but is an advocate in implementing these important principles.

"Kimberly has always provided an effective, thoughtful and prompt service."

Chambers & Partner 2024 

Admissions

  • England and Wales

Related Practice Areas

  • Commercial Construction & Engineering

  • Commercial Real Estate

  • Real Estate Sector

  • Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Team

  • Brownfields

  • Citizen Suits/NIMBY

  • Clean Air Act

  • Clean Water Law

  • Compliance Audits and Internal Investigations

  • Cost Recovery Litigation (Superfund/CERCLA and State equivalents)

  • Criminal Enforcement

  • Endangered Species (ESA)

  • Environmental Review (NEPA and State EIS laws)

  • Hazardous Materials Transportation (HMTA)

  • Hazardous Waste (RCRA)

  • Insurance Counseling

  • International Environmental Law

  • Oil Spills

  • Pesticides (FIFRA)

  • Reporting Requirements (EPCRA, CERCLA, Prop 65 and other state laws)

  • Safe Drinking Water (SDWA)

  • Solid Waste and Landfills

  • Toxic Substances Regulation (TSCA)

  • Transactional Work, Including SEC Disclosures

  • Underground Injection Control (UIC)

  • Water Rights

  • Wetlands

  • Mobile Source Emissions and Fleet Management

  • Environment

  • Real Estate

  • Energy & Natural Resources

Experience

Kimberly is the lead partner on some of the [team’s] most large and complex projects; these recently include:

  • A leading European Infrastructure Contractor on its tender submission for HS2 track systems. Advising on forms of alliance agreement, NEC based ECC works contract, supply contract and framework agreement.
  • University College London on the flagship Eastman Dental Hospital development. Advised on detailed procurement and strategy; part of which will form a new multimillion-pound Dementia Research Institute.
  • Barking Riverside Limited on one of the Government’s key strategic developments. Advised across all aspects of this development, from funding and stakeholder engagement to the construction of a new Thames Clipper Pier and creation of a new energy centre. 
  • Water Pipeline Replacement Programme – Advising an infrastructure specialist on their tender to replace 110km of existing tunnelling servicing up to 570 million litres of drinking water per day. The project is set to be the first in the UK water sector to use a new model of direct procurement for customers (DPC) to appoint a party to design, build, finance and maintain the asset. Advising on the construction and procurement strategy aspects of the project agreement, based on an NEC contracting approach and on the development of the construction contract terms including six tunnels with a combined length of 46.8km.

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