Mike Allen is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with more than 35 years of experience working internationally for many years, with the last 20 years based full-time in Hong Kong. He has deep experience in procurement and contract strategy, dispute resolution, and strategic advice to clients on distressed or problem projects.
Along with his many construction projects, Mr. Allen continues to work on numerous disputes and live projects for employers, contractors, and subcontractors. He provides contract advice, prepares claims and rebuttals, assists in negotiations, and has appeared in many different tribunals.
He is experienced in civil engineering, building, M&E and process plant contracts, which include the ICE 6th edition, Engineering Construction Contract (NEC), I Chem E Red and Green Book, G90, JCT, GC Works and Sub Contract Forms, including bespoke, simple, and situations of no written contract. He also has broad experience with FIDIC and various standard and ad hoc forms of contract in Europe, the Middle East, North and South Africa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, India, PRC, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mr. Allen has worked in various sectors, including building, civil engineering, airports, mining, infrastructure, Oil & Gas Facilities, Marine Civil Engineering and Process works. This has been in both a project-related and Arbitration environment, where the work has involved the analysis of large amounts of data in producing independent valuations related to a range of claims, including delay and disruption, prolongation, and variations.
He has been appointed as a Quantum Expert Witness on a number of construction disputes, acting for both claimant and respondent, working with major firms of solicitors and barristers. He has given evidence in the High Court twice and in domestic and international Arbitrations on thirty separate occasions, as well as in various Mediations and Conciliations. He is also a CEDR-accredited mediator.
Mr. Allen has also been listed in the Who’s Who Legal Directory of Expert Witnesses as a Global Elite Thought Leader, which states he is “an exceedingly thorough and diligent expert who is cool under pressure and excellent in the witness box.”