Welcome to Blinch (UK) Ltd
Blinch (UK) Ltd is a specialist consultancy located in the historic City of York providing contractual advice to the construction and engineering industry. Our mission is to promote and encourage dispute avoidance allowing you to focus on your core business. We achieve this by providing early contractual advice and in more advanced circumstances where conflict already exists, early evaluation of the merits and prospects of progressing matters further whilst simultaneously advising upon a strategy for early dispute resolution.
Our experienced professionals who practise nationally and internationally are dual qualified and comprise practising: barristers identified in the legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, chartered arbitrators, adjudicators, mediators, quantity surveyors, site managers and engineers who are on the approved panels of and/or members of CIArb, FIDIC, TECBAR, CIOB, IChemE, CEDR and LCIA. Our services aim to support your company at every step of the project from conception, procurement onwards through to completion with contractual advice before, during and after the project avoiding or resolving disputes.
Project experience include: Energy, Bio Plants, Petrochemical, Hospitals, Rail, Retail, Housing Developments, Power Stations, Sports Centre, Halls of Residence, Roads, Schools, Hotels, Domestic Dwellings and Extensions.
Our clients have said:
“We have used Blinch for some years now for both non-contentious and contentious matters including general contract advice and more serious issues in relation to adjudication and arbitration. We have experienced success in these proceedings where we recovered exactly what we were claiming. We were most impressed by Blinch’s approach to avoid disputes rather than engage in them.”
“We engaged Blinch to draft all the bespoke contract documents for the procurement of contractors and professional appointments for architects and engineers to satisfy the bank’s lawyers to enable funding of a project to the value of £30m. They negotiated contracts with contractors and later avoided disputes by encouraging mediation. The project was successfully delivered and completed without any resort to litigation. In relation to other matters our response in adjudication was successful and our counterclaim in litigation was successfully recoverd”
What Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners say about our lawyers:
“..excellent commercial insight thanks in part to pre-legal career in construction. Provides expert and detailed advice in construction….”
“.. understands what the client wants to achieve and particularly good at arguments over value and defects. Very strong in adjudication and arbitration.”