Peak Commercial acts as party representative in construction adjudication and mediation, for both referring and responding parties. Our principals have secured six-figure adjudication awards, acted as sole representative through adjudication to settlement, and prepared a successful Part 8 claim in the Technology and Construction Court alongside legal teams.

By the time a dispute crystallises, the question is no longer whether you are right. It is what you can prove, what it will cost to prove it, and whether the recovery justifies the fight. Those are commercial questions before they are legal ones, and they are the questions we answer first.

Our dispute work starts with an honest appraisal. We review the contract, the records and the history, and tell you plainly where the position is strong, where it is weak, and what a realistic outcome looks like. Sometimes the right advice is to settle, and we will give it. Pursuing a weak claim into adjudication costs more than the appraisal that would have stopped it.

When proceeding is right, we run the process as party representative: building the referral or the response, marshalling the evidence, managing the timetable, and working alongside your legal team where one is instructed. We have acted as the sole representative of a referring party through a successful adjudication and on to a negotiated six-figure settlement, and as part of responding teams that have materially cut the sums awarded against our clients.

We also resolve disputes before they get that far. Mediation, structured negotiation and pre-action positioning settle most disputes at a fraction of the cost of formal proceedings, and our principals have negotiated design-liability claims and final accounts to settlement without a referral ever being served.

The capability behind this is specific. One principal holds an MSc in Construction Law and Practice with Distinction and has spent years as a party representative in adjudication and mediation. The other is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators with seventeen years of NEC commercial leadership. We are not solicitors and we do not pretend to be; we are the commercial and quantum end of the dispute, and we work well alongside the lawyers who handle the legal end.

Evidenced outcomes from our principals include six-figure adjudication awards acting for referring parties, awards against clients materially reduced when responding, sole-representative conduct of an adjudication through to settlement, three design-liability claims negotiated to settlement without escalation, and preparation of a Part 8 claim in the Technology and Construction Court that succeeded, with fourteen follow-on claims negotiated to a substantial settlement.