Basil Georgiou

Basil Georgiou is the lead partner of Jackson McDonald’s projects, infrastructure and construction team. For more than 25 years, he has practised in the areas of contracting law relating to major projects and infrastructure, insurance, commercial litigation, Occupational Safety & Health, and general legal services. Mr Georgiou has assisted local and multinational clients with all forms of contracts including building contracts, project management contracts, consultancy contracts, contracts for the supply of goods and services, contracts for the purchase of goods and services, developing full suites of contracts for major contractors (including in relation to WA’s 2 major PPP projects), FPSOs (Floating Production Storage Offloading platform) and with contracts relating to several power stations. He has also advised numerous clients on dispute resolution by guiding matters in the Supreme Court, District Court, arbitrations, expert determinations, adjudications and mediation concerning defective workmanship, contribution and indemnity claims in tort, standard form building and engineering contracts involving, inter alia, variations, extensions of time, liquidated damages, and damages for delay.